Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-25
GOOD THING IN EGGS

1--WE are all SO much interested In the
war nowadays" said Col. John r. Wells
Of Seattle recently, that most of us have
rather forgotten the Klondike, with all its
rich possibilities Of news and wealth. But
up in my country we are still very deeply
interested In the Alaskan gold fields, and
thousands Of our people have invested their
time, their money and many of them their
lives In the lottery of gold digging 1 be-
lieve am partner in the most diabofical
and unique Of all schemes to make money
out OF the poor devils that are toiling up
under the arctic circle. My only justifica-
uon Is that If were not doing this partic-
uiar thing somebody else would be. You
know eggs are way up in that far-away
coio ana desolate region, where the COM
mon fowl Of the barnyard Is as much
foreigner as the Hottentot or the Terra del
fuegan. l did not go into it until was
asked. and it was not my own idea 1 have
that much to my credit with the recording
angel. 1t was my nephew in one of the
little country towns about ten miles out
from Seattle who thought Of the thing He
mas for several years been interested in
poultry and knows all the fine points about
II, When the excitement first arose
ABOUT the gold discoveries he came to me
ana said he thought of shipping eggs and
dressed and frozen poultry to Dawson City,
wnere the prices were bound to go high in
winter time and at any time of the year
oAu a hdnusome prOnt. 1 encour-
agea MIN, and finally put some money in
Win ms experience. He hadn't got on very
Iaf IN the business before he thought of a
scheme that beats any Yankee idea ever
heard OF before. OF course, he buys his
eggs here and there among the farmers,
and some of them are inferior goods that
wouldn't stand shipment To make sure of
eggs that would keep he bought half a
oozen lncubators and began to hatch his
essS JUST as II he was in the broiler or the
ouck business on large scale. In this
way. II an egg had a germ in it he knew it
mouia not Keep. You see, it is case where
lne oao eggs are the good ones. II an
egg Will hatch it will not keep. If 1t is in
tertiie and will not hatch 1t will keep in
oennitely. especially in a cool climate The
experiment has proved a great success
we now have thirty 4OO-egg incubators
running day and night Matching out infer
eiie eggs, you might say. The more infer
1,ie or pad eggs we get the happier we are
Inc chickens We hatch are simply a by pro-
uuct' IKE gas tar or crude petroleum We
get good prices for them, but the thing we
are really after Is the greatest quantity of
lawson for A.T5 a dozen. Last fall our
nrst Shipment brought 80 a dozen at whole
SAFE. we do not have to run the machines
q tuil tnree weeks on our eggs. In seven
Gays fertile egg will begin to terminate
ana with what IS called an egg tester il Is
an easy matter to tell the hatchabie from
INC lnIertile or non-hatchable ones Thus
our capacity is enormous. The fertile eggs
are taken out as soon as found and consoI-
ioated In machines by themselves and al
lowed TO run their full time of three weeks
- rs an ingenious and a very profitable
n,,aMtss Inc eggs are far superior Ill
quaHty 10 those you have here in Washing
ton oy the cold storage plan. They have a
sooo navor and are distinguishable from
TIE iresnest or eggs only by experts"