THE EXPORT OF EGGS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE EXPORT OF EGGS.

In order to test the- English market for eggs a shipment Was recently made by the Dookie Agricultural College of Victoria. The principal (Mr H. Pye) says that while the results were not %ufficiently encouraging to induce them to enter into the export business m a small way. still, with a well-organised oversea market there would appear to be, both direct and indirect advantages ih develop ing the enterprise. There must, if the egg export industry is to be established, be soine systematic method of collecting and marketing the eggs while fresh. Collecting depots must be formed, as is done m England. The eggs se.it to England were carefully selected, averaging m weight frorri 270z to 28bz per dozen. The net cost of marketing the eggs m England was 6|d per dozen, and ih Melbourne 1 1-6 per dozen. Taking the cracked and broken eggs into consideration, the net (nice realised for the eggs sent to Engand was 8d to B£d per dozen. At th** same time eggs m Melbourne, not so care fully graded, and averaging _S4oz to 250z sold at 8d per dozen, less the cost of marketing. For picked eggs, such as those sent to England,, as good a price <jould havei been obtained iri Melbourne, and if put down m waterglass or lim. water they would ; have been worth f ro«n 9d"to 9id for the Lent season. In London the account sales showed that larg" brown eggs brought 12s per ten dozen, and large white lis, while other brown eggs brought 9s Bid, arid other white 9s 2_d. These figures showed that the grading and color of the\eggs were important, that it would pay to have hen. that laid large eggs, and that m founding an oversea market, the development of breeds that lay brown eggs should be a consideration.