EXPORT OF EGGS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2063, 25 April 1907, Page 3

EXPORT OF EGGS.

A VICTORIAN EXPERIMENT. In order to test the English market for eggs a shipment was recently made by the Dookie Agricultural College of Victoria. The principal, Mr. 11. Pye, says that while the results were "not sufficiently encouraging to induce them to enter into the export business in a small way, still with a well-organised ■ oversea market there would appear to be both direct and indirect advantages in developing the enterprise. There must, If the egg export industry is to be established, be some systematic method of collecting and marketing the eggs while fresh. Collecting depots roust he formed, as is done in 'England. The eggs sent to England were carefully selected, averaging in weight from 270 zto 28oz per dozen. The net cost of marketing the eggs in England was 6Jd per dozen, and ip Melbourne ijd per dozen. Taking the cracked and broken eggs into consideration, the net price realised for the eggs sent to England was 8d to 8&d per dozen. At the same time eggs in Melbourne, not so carefully graded, and averaging 240 zor 250 z, sold at 8.1 per dozen, less the cost of marketing. For picked eggs, such as those sent to England, as good a price as that received could have been obtained in Melbourne, and if put down in waterglass or lime water they would havo boon . worth from 9d to Old for the Lent season. In London the account sales showed that large brown eggs brought 12s per 10 dozen, and large ■white 11s, while other brown eggs brought 9s Bjd, and other white 9s 2-Jd. These figures showed that the grading and color of the eggs were important, that it would pay to have hens that laid large eggs, and that in founding an oversea market the development of breeds that lay brown eggs should be a consideration.