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...eggman (7), they are the eggmen (8), I am the walrus...
...eggman, they are the eggmen--I am the walrus...
...their peak laying period has been prolonged. The new, automated egg operations have made egg raising so easy that virtually every section of the country now mass-produces eggs. The Southeastern states until five years ago were major egg importers; they are now major exporters, and many Southern eggmen predict that in a few years they will raise enough eggs for all the population east of the Rockies...
...business. In addition to encouraging this new competition, the Government farm program has forced egg raisers' feed costs sky-high through propping up the price of most grains. Although egg prices today average 25? a dozen on the farm, back to the level of 1941, Eastern eggmen today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls.'' says New Jersey State Agriculture Secretary Phillip Alampi. ''but the poultry farmer, particularly in New Jersey, is the dead...
...good news for shoppers was bad news for poultry-and-eggmen; there are too many chickens and eggs. Monthly chick output has soared to around 100 million from 91 million a year ago, and the farmers are getting only 24.8? a lb. for broilers compared to the postwar average of 31.1?. Monthly egg production is up to a record 4,545,000,000, some 15% above the postwar average, while farmers' prices dropped to an average 37.4? a dozen, from 50.2? a year...