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Show POULTRY RECORDS SHOW HIGHEST PRICES IN FALL Poultry records kept by Professor Pro-fessor Byron Alder and Carl Frischkneckt, extension poultry-men poultry-men of the : Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural Volisgr; ' show that October and November ' eggs for the past three years bring the highest prices during the year,' while January and February eggs bring the lowest prices. In October of 1931, eggs climb ed to 43 cents per dozen; in November Nov-ember 1932, they sold for 38 cents and in November 1933, the average was 3 4 cents. In January of 1931-32-33 eggs brought 18, 16 and 13 cents respectively; while in February of this year they sold for 17.6 cents per dozen, doz-en, the records show. What the peak-price for the year will be is, of course, a conjecture. The reduced purchasing powei of the consumer and the low price of competitive food products pro-ducts have, in a large measure been responsible for lower egg prices during the winter months the extension poultrymen pohv out. Fewer eggs were produced in the United States in 1933 than in 19S2, bat in spite of this, the cold storage holdings of eggs at the peak in 1933 were considerably greater than they were in 1932. In order therefore, to encourage consumption and prevent too many eggs from going to cold storage, egg prices in 1933 were not as high as they were in 1932 or in 1931. While eggs did not go as high in price this winter as they did in 1932, they have not gone as low as they did last winter. |