Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-25
THE POULTRY PRODUCT.
some Idea OF Whore tho Eggs Come
from.

some Idea OF Whore tho Eggs Come
from.
New York city consumes between p
600, 600 and 5000, 900 eggs daily. A pro-
duce dealer who handles more eggs than
any other concern in the country, saws
that II the whole surface OF the State OF
Now York were covered with hens they
could not lay enough eggs TO supply New
York city. or course New York State
yields Tany eggs, but the larger cities
OF the interior, like Albany, Troy, and
Syracuse, use most OF the eggs the New
York farmers produce. The same Is the
case with Long Island. The local resi-
dents consume the home supply. New
Jersey does not produce as many eggs as
its citizens consume at home.
Half dozen Western States supply
the bulk of all the eggs which are con-
sumed In New York city. Indiana sends
the largest number. Next In the list are
Ohio, Michigan, and Iowa. Ii Is esti-
mated that Indiana is the largest egg
producing State In the country. Illinois
hens produce many eggs. but they nearly
all go to the Chicago market. Hereto
fore Canada has shipped into the United
States hundreds OF carloads OF eggs. For
the last three or four years Canada
has annually shipped about $1,000, 600
worth of eggs TO this market.
The present duty on foreign eggs prom
Uses practical prohibition against i'm
ports. Previous to the change In the
tariff considerable importations OF eggs
were made from Europe, commencing
three or four years ago. These En-
ropean eggs were gathered principally in
Southern Germany and In Italy, and pre-
hof nfaElnA
eggs, while not good for poaching or
boiling, because the shells are brittle, yet
are useful for many other purposes.
Commission men say that eggs are
handled at smaller profit than other
food products. The shipper buys di-
rectly from the farmer as rule. He has
his wagons, which drive from farmhouse
TO farmhouse at stated intervals, collect
ing the eggs. At this season of the year
the loss from bad eggs is very small, and
when the shipper has carload he packs
the eggs i'm cases or barrels, and starts
them TO New York. They are consigned
TO commission dealer, who charges
per cent. on the sales.
The cost of bringing eggs from great
distances is less than one would think.
The large shipments reduce the cost oil
| freight. 1t costs about three-quarters oil
a cent dozen more TO bring eggs from
Ohio than from the vicinity OF New York,
| and only / a cents dozen more 70 bring
them from Iowa. 1t is generally the
supply of eggs from the Western State:
which fixes the price in the East.
| Eggs are highest and scarcest from the
| first OF December to the middle of Feb
ruary. OF late years. however, there
have been liberal shipments during these
months to New York City from Mis-
souri, and Kansas. Eggs from the latter
| State have fair reputation among deal
ers. There are many carloads shipped
| in from Tennessee, Maryland and Ntr
ginia. During March and April eggs
pour into New York City from all direc
tionS.
The Indiana and Ohio shippers arr
particularly active. Generally about thu
first OF April eggs are shipped in to New
York at the rate of 4, 900, 900 or 1000, 0O'
a day, and prices usually drop very fast
Commission men have to be pretty bus.
in handling eggs Ia warm weather. Hea
is the eggs great enemy, and farmer
are not always as careful as they nigh
be i'm handling their eggs Twenty-fou
hours at certain temperature Will star
the process of incubation and spoil tn
egg. An egg which has been kept 10
three weeks in an even temperature o
about 80 degrees is much better, and ap
parently much fresher, than one which
has passed twenty hours in tempera
ture of so degrees.-Americdn Gu
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