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look ior inc price spreao to widen some between Grade A large and mediums. It is now unusually close at about 3% to. 4 Ms cents.
Production fof the nation in January should be around t' -•.* per cent below January a year ag-, depending on the weather. Gta A large prices a year ago xu /: about eight cents below this y<-r. • Prices for leghorn-type hens’ topped at II and 12J < enf« I«t week, indicating there is no rash of old hens to market.;
Total number of layers tor the nation probably will creep up even with last year about March, b it that dosen’t necessarily mean .v* will have the favorab!e price w did in March a year ago.
Virginia price of Grade A largeggs last week was 38 to 39 cent with mediums at 34to 35V and small eggs at 30 to 30
Grade A large in New . x : xvere 39 to 42Vi with medir 35% to 37^.
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Look for strength prices during the nex* v . . . weeks. ■*
Tliis doesn’t twin * • V rise but a V marl x > eaS perhaps a oalf-ren* v.' ' j Broil't'ln’: f ■’ • ’ft ' ! in the I' If r I 1 ’-st I year, t:r i'-Vs it | will i-trf th- '""ce a* gain. V. r-ti.,,1 . —it and ah'. ’ it r “ : of the yr
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