The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-16


vided into classes The cracked eggs and
dirty eggs are put aside.
Not an egg of any sort is wasted The
hopelessly bad egg not bought up for
campaigning purposes, are sold for use
IN tanning processes. The dirties and
the cracked eggs go to the bakers, as do
many of the stale eggs. Dirty and stale
eggs are also Sold to the small dealers
IN the poor quarters of the city, where
the trade cannot afford high prices. The
pest retail dealers of the city buv only
me best selected or mixed eggs One
New York grocery firm has bought $3.50
worth of tirst-class eggs this month. and
o2 TS'n eonsider It big month. either.
Iresh eggs now; and the supply will be
small from this time until March or
April, put millions Of eggs are packed
away in the storage houses and it would
pc indeed a long winter that could OK
naust the supply. OF course an egg
does lose its favor with storage. but it
doesn spoil, in the ordinary acceptance
Of that word. and eggs are frequently
Kept ten months without being unfit for
use At the time of New Yorll's last
blizzard when entrance to the CITY was
absolutely blocked, the storage egg SIM
ply Was fully cleaned out, and ten-rnonth-
oid eggs sold for a price higher than
tna .t Ordinarily brought by fancy fresh
It is an established fact that storage
houses FOR eggs should be away from the
san am, as the salt seems to affect the
more easily tainted than an egg, though
one might suppose that IT'S shell would
protect IT. to- Buffalo dealer last season
stored 1000 cases of eggs, 800 ia a case
In the same house with consignment
or pears, and the eggs took on such q
ddlstlnet pear flavor that they were sold
I rog rSlot very small price on the New York
There is money in the egg business.
even even, Tor farmers who go into 1t in
s cifa " way; and almost every first-class
n re hOO e.,
farmers. who furnish small supplies of
eggs superior in appearance and stamp
ed ed strictly a1I fresh. Very often these eggs
sometimes they are fake pure and SIM
PIE. The wholesale dealers all know
one one, small down town firm that buys
stamps each one with Long Island adj
dress and dates and sells them at
fancy price as strictly fresh Long Is
Even the farmers themselves occas-
loIlally Yield to temptation. When
man man Is accustomed to providing sixty
New York dealer and, on account Of
colo weather or natural cussedness, his
mems fail him for week two and
furnish him only ten dozen a week. his
integrity is sadly strained. 1t would BIO
50 exceedingly easy to run up to New
York buy fifty dozen fresh eggs at a fair
price, stamp them with his stamp and
send them off. No one would be hurt
the eggs would be good and his profits
would be Intact. Presumably the ordinary
farmer groans Retro Sathanas'' and
stands his loss, but there are others
That Is why wholesale dealers grin jov-
tally when one asks them about strictly
fresh eggs
The United States export large auanti-
ties of eggs to the West Indies and South
America, and even sends them as far
affeld as South Africa, but France Rus
STA, Belgium and Denmark practically
supply the European market England.
oddly enough. produces few eggs and i'm
ports yearly more than 1,3OO, 100000 from
the Continent