THE PRICE OF EGGS
Exceptional Levels Reached UP TO 3/- A DOZEN With eggs selling at up to 3/* a dozen and retailers offering up to 2/9 a dozen, people whose fowls are laying at the present time have good ' reason to be pleased with their p'oultry. This is the off-season for eggs, hut even when this fact is taken into consideration, the prices realised are exceptional, and this is not a figure that has been approaehed for some years. The market for pullets' eggs is not so profitahle to the poultry-raiser as the heq egg, Good pullets' eggs do not command. much more than 1/9 or 1/10, as against 22/9 with full-sizc hen eggs, and for this the housekeeper is apparently responsible, as she is not prepared to pay anywhere near the same figure for the smaller egg when purehasing. Jnst how long eggs will retain their high values deponds upon the supply. •It is thought, however, that there will be an easier tono shortly, as greater nunibers of eggs are anticipated to be coming forward.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 4
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177THE PRICE OF EGGS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 4
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