Excerpt from Competitive Position of the Midwestern Egg Industry Many egg producers in the Midwest have become increasingly concerned in recent years about the prices they receive for their eggs, particularly during the late spring and early winter when production is greatest. The growing dissatisfaction with producer price levels is an expression of some rather far-reaching troubles being experienced by the Midwestern egg industry. These difficulties are attributable to both external and internal forces. Externally, the egg industry is characterized by a rate of growth which is slower than that of the population. The per capita consumption of eggs has been declining, even though egg prices have declined in relation to prices of most other food products. (see Appendix I for demand analyses.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The world turned upside down for city-bred Marjorie Douglas when, in 1943, her young husband moved her and their baby, Anne, from suburban St. Paul to a western Minnesota stock ranch to help his parents stave off financial disaster. With wit and wisdom Douglas's memoir describes a midwestern way of life of fifty years ago.

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