The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-15
FANCY EGGS AND BUTTER.
Stamped with the Farm Name and Sold %
Fancy Prices.

Fancy Prices.
There are fashions in butter ant eggs
as there are in nearly everything else.
Catering TO a trade that they have Gro
rted out of the whims Of pSopie Tor
deliCatciy and uaIns'.y put IN dairy
products, there have been established
this past year or two half-dozen and
more artistic shops. These have but
little chop trade" but from an early
hour each morning their wagons
through fashionable sections deliver
cream, milk and eggs fresh from great
diaries up the river, tine prod let's q
world-famed herds and poultry yards.
In each of these wagons is a smartly
dressed buttons" a delivery boy that
seems, from his immaculate uniform
like private servant.
Though cream and milk-in immacl.-
late jars-constitute the large part OF
the business of these diaries, daily de
iliveries of butter and eggs are also tn
important branch. The eggs are packed
Ia dainty paper boxes, each in a conn
partment by itself, aud are carefully
stamped with the poultry yards name,
(which is guarantee OF their absolute
excellence. The diaries are selling such
&fgs nowadays at IS cents a dozen, or
nouble the ordinary price for strictly
fresh" eggs in New York to-day, and
in some places they are sold for even
more than that The dairies have this
enormous advantage-their eggs are
bought because of the stamp upon
them, and the price makes little differ
ence to their customers. In most cases
they would be purchased Just the same
If the price was raised 100 per cent.
An interesting fact about this is that
at the same shops precisely the same
eggs can be purchased, without the
stamp and without the careful packing
in dainty boxes, for as low as 30 cents
dozen, even These, OF course, are not
guaranteed" but, as a matter Of fact,
they are just as good. The distinction
the dairies make js that these IN
stamped eggs are for kitchen use, aud
the stamped ones for the table There
are any number of orders upon the
books of the5e shops for dozen or 10
stamped eggs to be sent 20 residences
each morning of the year.
That old proverb. eggs are eggs
IS not correct according TO modern
ideas. One egg, it is certain, can quite
differ from another in point of excel
lence. The poultry yards which are
owned by these diaries find IL nc
small task TO keep their product up to
their standard. To do this they have
TO pay the most careful attention 20
their fowls. feeding them q special diet
and keeping them healthy by the best I
known scientific methods These pre-
cautions entail no SINAI amount Of I
sxtra work, and guaranteed egIT"
therefore have quite naturally al in |
creased market value.
With butter IL Is the same. The I
difference in price between everyday 4
frst-class butter and the products Of 4
the famous diaries that have a name .
behind them is even greater than IL 4
s. in the case Of eggs. Thirty-five 70
10 cents a pound is a goOdly price for
most people 10 pay, and yet there ere
hundreds Of families that submit VIII
great cLeerfIlness to a charge Of from
SIPS 20 sI.75 per pound. OF course,
few of the diaries get up 20 his top
figure, but T. nevertheless Is an estSb-
Lshed price for some people
Fancy butter like this IL beautiful
TO look at It's rich. soft color is en-
HANGED ~ tho carefully, erquisitely-
made pats into which u Is nodded. a1d
the artistic stamp which adorns u.
This stamp j. the mark Of the farm.
and guarantees IT. quality better than
q thousand afidavits could. 4 favorite
method Of putting IL M - II square
pound mods. divided by depressed
lines into four small cakes. each weigh
ing q quarter % . pound. and each
bearing the stamp Of the farm. Zach
quarter pound or pound. - ~ case
may b, - delivered in a handsome
pssteboaTd box especially made for IL
These dairy shops in town are SIZED
up II the most elaborate vaT. Pure
white and geld constitute their csco-s-
ton, and they are kest a. sIotless a. a
new pin Floors. ceiling ard walls are
usually tiled : clear perfect Whit, h
long count>rz are polished marble. aud
The ratings and fittings are q ths
brichtaT. b-zsz.-N. i. World.