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Show Egg Business Looks Better Supply of eggs and all sorts of poultry will be greatly reduced during the coming year, it is indicated in-dicated by the federal report' on cold storage holdings for May, received recently at the offices of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Co-operative Association. The report, compiled by the United States marketing service at Washington, D. C, shows that case eggs in storage have decreased over ten per cent from the number held this time last year, and poultry poul-try stocks have diminished as much as 50 per cent depending on the various classes. Such substantial reductions in the storage stocks are evidence ot a healthy movement of these commodities com-modities into consumption channels chan-nels and some tendency towards cuts in production. Unless there is a tremndous increase in-crease in poultry production this year, and the opposite is expected, the supply is certain to be reduced and prices should react upward. The poultry situation presents the brightest picture. Total storage stor-age stocks in May, 1931, were 45,-856,000 45,-856,000 pounds, compared with 77,-420,000 77,-420,000 a year ago and a five-year average of 64,443,000. In. other words there are now ' 31,564,000 pounds less poultry meat in storage stor-age now than a year ago, and 17,587,000 pounds less than the average av-erage amount for the past five years. There are 600,000 cases of eggs less in storage now than last year, but nearly 400,000 more than the five-year average. The figures are 5,174,000 for May, 1931; 5,766,000 last year, and 4,694,000 average, following are the respective figures for the various classes of poultry with htose for a year ago in parenthesis: par-enthesis: Broilers, 6,253,000 pounds, (11,329,000); fryers, 4,225,000 pounds (6,171,000); roasters, 12,429,000 lbs., '20(761,000); fowls, 8,576,000 pounds (9,816,000); turkeys, 4,808,000 lbs., (10,400,000); miscellaneous, 9,565,-000 9,565,-000 pounds, (18,943,000). |