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Show EGG PRICES GOING HIGHER The egg market is in a very unstable condition, according to the reports re-eelved re-eelved todav from ' g,b n ' urn m n men. Eggs are being Jobbed at (14. SO and $15.oo per case and they are still going up Commission men point out, however, that In the event of a spell of warm weather the prices may be expected ex-pected to drop rapid!) to $10.50 to $11 per case, which were prices prevailing Just before the recent cold weather set in- When the warm weather was pre-I pre-I vailing and chickens In the vicinity of iigden were laying regularly, eggs declined de-clined -rapidly In price until they were being offered at retail in some Quarters Quar-ters at 26 cents per dozen As a coa-lequence coa-lequence a large portion of the cold storage was shopped out The sudden cold snup retarded lay-; lay-; Ing and prices shot up to the present point. Even when eggs, commission men say. were selling for $10.50 case, they could not be bought In quantity quan-tity at those prices because tho production produc-tion did not more than meet the de-Tnand. de-Tnand. Eggs are being shipped Into the State from Seattle. Wash., and Kan-sa. Kan-sa. points, the shippers demanding from $12 to $13 per case. Commission Commis-sion men here are offering local producers pro-ducers $13 per case. |