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Show Record Egg Shipment Made This Week SHipmeut of eggs from American !r,flc this week smashed all records ',nne year wiUl 2'200 cnses lcavh,g-juree lcavh,g-juree carloads went out from the ociatiou, three shipments from w . Pulley and Sons plant and ,iirshipmehts from Nye and Nisscn. jj addition to these car lot freight 'tupments, express lots and truckers uposed of additional eggs which ,.nnot be checked upon. Vith weekly shipment of eggs like ,vi3 and the price averaging $12.50 ,r case het and running as high as if 00 net per case, it can easily be '!feu what the chicken industry is Vug or our communitv iL a finan'" way. At the average of $12.50 tn the producers, which is a very servatdve figure, this week's eggs 'till bring $27,500.00. This is worth Several small industrial plant payrolls pay-rolls which we have so desired and l-et we fail to realize just how much L poultry industry, actually means :o us. During the past year the poultry--en have experienced a real proflt-Me proflt-Me period. Egg prices have held up optionally good and feed prices !ve been average. In many cases oultrymen With small flocks are l.ttine -100 per week over feed costs id the larger successful producers ive been netting several times this jiount Prospects for the coming year are reu better if market conditions re--aiu staple. Advance information j baby chick orders now going in -fetes that from three to five times , many baby chicks will be pur-! iased this spring as compared to at spring in this district. The ( aiding of dozens of dozens of new f vras also substantiates the fact , at a big increase in chicks is to be j |