The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-12

before the 18th of January. know that
some Western shippers store their eggs in
the spring and hold then over for the fall
trade, and from Hy experience of handling
some of them find that about two ship
ments out of every three do not give salts
faction, because from the length of time
they are stored great many eggs become
green and musty, and these are hard and
troublesome to dispose of at any price. and
are returned over and over again. know
that some shippers do not put spring eggs In
the ice-house to carry over for fall trade, but
they pickle them. and only store their fall
eggs In the ice-house; This, L believe my
self, is the best plan. because eggs that are
properly picked in the spring are far better
than those stored in the ice-house in the
spring, when taken out for fall trade.
There are great many ice-house eggs in
market at present which were stored in the
spring, and are entirely unfit for use; even
the common class bakeries can not use them,
and the consequence is the most of them
must finally be turned over to the morocco
dresser, and this entails a heavy loss to the
shipper. i, therefore, would not advise any
one TO store eggs in the ice-house, in the
spring, for the purpose of carrying them over
until the fall trade "Opens, for have not seen
the icehouse that is so adapted as to make
the eggs give good satisfaction, no matter
how cold it may be. 1t is the this
season, at the present time, that q great many
Western ice-house eggs are coming into mar
-ket that have been stored since spring and
it is my firm opinion that the shippers win
lose on them to certain extent. 1t is just
this class of eggs that affect the general mar
ket materially, because even when they are
sold they are almost invariably returned in
a short time, because the consumers and
buyers get discouraged that they even
quit using eggs for awhile and these poor
eggs have always a tendency to check the
consumption and the sale of even good. fresh
stock.
For lined eggs, the New York and Balti-
: more markets have generally been tine most
prominent, but the demand is gradually in
creasing in our market from year to year. l
find that within the past few years there has
been vast improvement IN lining eggs.
both in the West and Canada. In regard to
the quality Of lined eggs. am satisfied from
my own experience that the New York State
lined eggs take the lead every season. They
have the preference with our trade, and al.
ways sell more readily than Western, and in
variably command little better price.
There are some lew brands of Western
lined which are better than the general
run, and these usually sell within about one
cent of the price of New York State We
have even exported considerable Western
lined which have given good satisfaction,
but it is only on rare occasions that this can
be done, and then only when they are so low
here that there is no profit in them for the
shipper, and that is when we have a very
mild and open winter. especially in France,
from whence the largest supply of fresh eggs
is obtained Fresh eggs we could never ex-
port and have margin, as there is seldom
any wide range of prices between this and
the European markets. In fact the yelks OF
fresh eggs are imported TO this country
in such large quantities by the cask, that il
would astonish even our largest Western egg
shippers. These imported yelks are sold by
measure to large bakeries and morocco dress
ers In the fall. when the trade is about
fairly stayed on lined eggs, and the buyers
are once sa:;sfeed with viii, the Qualities of any
certain brand, they will generally want thai
same brand the whole season, and if they
should happen to get anything different, and
it is not up to the standard, they generally
get discouraged at once, and it then becomes
bard matter to again sell them-even the
best brand that comes on the market.