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Show EGGS AND POnTRY PLENTIFUL This fall and winter eggs and poultry poul-try will be plentiful and prices may be low enough to make them econo-mical econo-mical Just now storage houses are full of eggs and! farmers 'have increased in-creased their flocks of poultry to an unusual extent. On Auguest 1st, there were 4,812,248 cases of eggs in storage, which is about 35 per ct. more than the average at this season for the last three years. Eggs start moving out. of storage in summer and the greatest sales of such eggs come in fall and early winter. As a rule, the bulk of storage stor-age eggs are sold before the 1st of January, the activity of the market after that date depending on -whether the weather is severe or mild enough en-ough to stimulate egg production. An open winter practically eliminates elimin-ates the storage egg early in the season. sea-son. But this year, regardless of the state of the weather, ergs shouil be available at very Tasonable prices Poultry farming, both as a spec-, spec-, ialt yand a.s a side issue on other farms, has been one of the best paying pay-ing lines of argicultural work during dur-ing the last two or three years, which accounts for the large supplies on hand: this year. Price? to the farmer, however, have now reached a low-point low-point on both eggs and poultry, and he is not marketing poultry freely, but is holding his birds for better prices or using them on the table at home. Poultry fattening stations that are Usually crowded at this season, are now only about two-thirds full. |