Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-06-11
Marketing Eggs.


is no danger but one can sell at
good prices all be can produce
But here is the story.
My old hens laid plentifully du-
ring July and August, and though
the price was not good there was
a good market for all the eggs !
could spare l did not care to
hawk around anything | had for
sale, and sought a dealer who
had good trade, aud proposed
that lie would take all the eggs !
would have.
cat what price" do you pro
pose SELF" he asked.
SAT the IN 'rket price" | an
swered.
"Who's going to decide?"
"Well bott decide. | will have
a pass book and enter in it the
number of DOZEN | sind you -
When you have counted them
you can add the price on the book.
and in that way there can be no
mistakes or misunderstanding"
"AII right, said he, I'll do it,"
Il would like to have you bear
one thing in mind" | added, land
that is, that | guarantee you shall
never find & bad egg among those
l send you. If you will keep
them separate and ever find me
wrong in this, | Will give you two
eggs for every bad one you fad in
my baskets"
do you mean all that" he
asked. somewhat douhtingly.
Every word of it, | answer
ed.
"All right see that you do ii,
for | shall warrant every egg"
The merchant must have told
of our bargain, for the next time
| met our neighbor, he refined up
his horses as If he had something
of inheritance to communicate.
"Say, Tim T. he began. ':gone
into the egg business on kig sc.le,
amt you
why, no; not any larger acale
than a good many others"
&" But you warrant your eggs,
don't you?"
/ saw the twinkle in his eye,
but was not going TO back down
eyes" l answered; 81 don't
intend to carry any but good eggs
to market"
"Jes' so! So I beerd. Pears
70 me you must have mig'ty
sight of confidence in your hens. "
Not so much confidence in my
hens as in the care of my eggs"
"Jes' so! It's as good as thread
warranted 200 yards! Why don't
you put your name on each egg,
Tim ?"
81 may by and by"
"Jes' so! l don't see why you
shouldn't" And he drove OH.
But after all | had not done
SO foolish a thing as you might
think. My twenty hens averaged
fifteen eggs a day, and | made it
a rule to send the eggs to market
every third morning. | used Chi
ma nest eggs, SO there was no pos
slbility of any egg being over three
days old. 1t was hot long before
the merchant began to appreciate
the fact that there was a constant
supply of eggs that he might de
pend upon as being all right.
l carried a baske: of eggs to
him one morning, and, after he
had taken them, he said
Tim, supposing l should agree
to give you one cent dozen more
than the market price, what eff.
feet would it have on you"
"The best effect in the world, |"
| answered.
"Well, tits just like this; when
you told me to warrant your eggs
all sound, l thought you Was a
confouuded fool. But | warran-
ted the eggs and found they were
always good. Now | have a class
of trade that would willingly pay
more for eggs if they could be sure
they were good, and l propose to
ask two cents a dozen more for
eggs that you bring me, and this l
will divide with you"
This was certainly encouraging,
and our arrangement holds good
TO this day. habitualIy receive
one cent dozen for my eggs more
than any of my neighbors do. 1t
is an Insignificant sum, but it
counts up at the end of the year.