ESG PRICES TAKE TWO CENT RAISE
Local Poultrymen Now Getting More   Than   They Did a Year Ago
With egg prices on some grades as high as they were at this time last year and with feed costs thirty five per cent lower than they were
during the corresponding week of 1930, Oak Harbor district poultrymen are receiving more for their product than they did last July.
Egg prices advanced another two cents per dozen on the pool for Friday, Lyle Muzzall, manager of the Oak Harbor station of the Washington 
ton Co-Operative Egg and Poultry Association, said today. Medium grade eggs are now bringing the same price per dozen as they did in 
the corresponding week of 1930 while extras are two cents under the figures for a year ago.
Top grade eggs brought four cents per dozen more last week than they did during the period or lowest prices this summer, Mr. Muzzall
said. The prices on lower grade eggs last week were three cents above what they were a few weeks ago.
A comparison of the prices that poultrymen are paying for their feed this week as compared with the corresponding period of 1930,
shows decline of thirty five per cent in favor of 1931, Mr. Muzzall pointed out. This comparison is based on the relative prices of the four
principal poultry feed commodities, mash,  wheat,  corn  and  oats.
Considering   the    greatly   reduced price of feed  under what  it was in July.    1930,    local    poultrymen    are pocketing more of the returns from the sale of of their eggs than they did twelve months ago. Prospects for favorable prices this fall and winter looking brighter than ever,
poultry   leaders  of  the   Oak  Harbor district point out.    Recent bulletins the U. S. Department of Agriculure report that production is desiring and  that  the  storage  stocks are light Consumption is reported to be holding up well.