Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1890 — A Great City’s Egg Supply. [ARTICLE]

A Great City’s Egg Supply.

When it comes to eggs, figures fail. It is necessary to speak of them by dozens. Last year 6,000,000 dozens of eggs were sold in the egg markets, 72,000,000 eggs all told. But that is nothing. Hundreds of grocers get their eggs direct from the country, so that it will probably be safe to say that New York and its vicinity consumes 1,000,000,000 eggs every year, as* the egg men say that they do not sell one-tenth part of the eggs used in New York. They are gathered frofn everywhere; some are raised right within the city limits, many across the river in Hudson County, N. J., hundreds of thousands on Long Island, and nobody knows how many within 200 miles of New York city. They are packed in barrels chiefly for the market, and in boxes—each egg in its own compartment —for family and grocery store shipment. The only available figures are those of the markets, but the dealers say that they do not bCgin to represent one-tenth part of the consumption.—[New York News.