CANADA’S EXPERIENCE.

Shannon News, 5 October 1926, Page 4

CANADA’S EXPERIENCE.

PER CAPITA INCREASE OF TEN DOZEN. In 1920 Canada produced one hundred and fox-ty-four million dozen eggs; and in 1924, two hundred and thirty-eight million dozen, an increase of nearly a hundred million dozen in four years, says tho Canadian “Trade Bulletin.” In that time there was only a small increase in population and had it not been for a decided increase in consumption due to improved qualify, Canadian markets would have been swamped by the surplus. True, there might iiave been an increase in, exports, but at a price on the world’s markets that would have left little profit for the .producer. On the other hand, the last three years have been the best ever experienced by poultry producers in Canada, Prices have been high, the industry has gone ahead by leaps and bounds and in the back-to-tlie-iand discussions among the urban population, the poultry industry is the phase of agriculture most favourably considered. A. great deal is written about the poultry industry in the'' United States. ‘ In the United States, however, egg consumption has increased only two dozen per capita in the five years 1920-24 inclusive, while in Canada in tho same period egg consumption has increased ten dozen per capita. ' This very satisfactory condition of the poultry business has been brought about very largely as the result of egg grading. Egg grading in Canada has been in effect since the spring of 1918. It was first applied to export and interprovincial shipments, later to import shipments, and in the summer of 1923 to all eggs offered for sale in a domestic way. From facts at hand, it is reasonable to believe, df the quality of Canada’s eggs had not improved. consumption hero would have increased no faster than in the United States, and prices would have been possibly one-half of what they are to-day.