Poultry Processing and Marketing Volume 21 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...OF NEW-LAID LIGHT--POULTRY MARKET FAIRLY GOOD RECEIPTS MODERATE. The egg market is strong and active, with receipts of new-laid eggs unusually light and not nearly sufficient to supply the requirements of the local trade. Offerings as a rule are of good quality, and althougn the weather has been remarkably warm for this season of the year, the loss off is surprisingly light. Local consumption is so heavy and storage eggs are moving out so rapidly that stocks in the cold storage warehouses of the country on November 1st were practically the same as those of November 1st a year ago, and the heavy excess that was reported at the beginning of the season has been wiped out. Owing to the urgent local demand and the hign prices which are ruling, there is little shipping business being done. There is practically nothing being sent to the larger markets and most of the shipments are goin" to the smaller towns. Local dealers estimate that fully 80 per cent of the eggs now being taken for local consumption are storage eggs, but the quality is so good that the consumers are satisfied, as they think that they are getting new-laid eggs. Efforts are being made by the local postoffice to incrase the parcel post shipments of eT8, but shipments by mail are restricted on account of the lack of a satisfactory egg carrier of this character. According to the statement issued by the American Warehousemen's Association, stocks of eggs in the associated warehouses on November 1, 1915, were 103.106 casts, as compared with 100,444 cases on November 1, 1914. Owing to the fact that some of the local cold storage warehouses are not members of the association and that these independent houses refuse to give out figures in regard to their stocks of eggs, the St. Louis egg figures are...