6 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
HGGS. 
No special poultry product can be marketed throughout the 
year to such good advantage as eggs. When gathered from 
the nest they area “‘finished product’’ ready for packing and 
shipment without the intermediate processes of dressing and 
cooling which so greatly trouble the seller of dressed poultry. 
The farmer or poultryman who makes a specialty of producing 
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Bigse 1: 
This and other similar charts used in this bulletin are based upon quotations 
given in The Producers’ Price Current of New York and the reports of the 
Boston Chamber of Commerce. In each case highest quotations have been 
used. 
market eggs can estimate within a very few cents the price 
they will bring him throughout the year, an advantage possessed 
by no other farm product. With almost the regularity of a 
pendulum egg prices swing backward and forward according to 
season, as a careful study of market reports covering several 
years clearly demonstrates. Generally the period of lowest 
prices begins the latter part of March or in early April and 
continues well into May. ‘This is the natural breeding season 
of the fowls and therefore the period of greatest production. 
The period of low prices varies somewhat from year to year, 
an early spring hastening the drop in price, and a late one 
