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

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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
tne 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 trace cannot afford high prices The
pest retail dealers of the city buy only
the best selected or mixed eggs. One
New York grocery firm has bought $500
worth OF frSt-class eggs this month and
DOESN'T consider 1t a big month either
Inc country is practically cleared of
fresh eggs now; and the supply win be
small from this time until March or
april but millions of eggs are packed
away in the storage houses, and it would
be indeed long winter that could OK
haust, the supply. OF course, an egg
does does lose It's favor with storage, but it
o of tho+ spoll. IN the ordinary acceptance
Of mat word; and eggs are frequently
Kept ten months without being unfit for
use. At the time of New Yorl1's last
blizzard, when entrance to the citv was
absolutely blocked, the storage egg SUP.
Ply was fully cleaned out, and ten-n1onth-
old eggs sold for a price higher than
that that ordinarily brought by fancy fresh
It is an established fact that storage
houses for eggs should be away from the
SAL afr, as the salt seems to affect the
more easily tainted than an egg, though
one might suppose that its shell would
protect It. Buffalo dealer last season
In the same house with consignment
OF pears, and the eggs took on such a
distinct pear flavor that they we're sold
I nof a. very small price on the New York
TT, There is money in the egg business,
even even, Tor farmers who go into 1t in
small ia way; and almost every frst-class
q ~ ifc
farmers, who furnish small supplies of
eggs superior in appearance and stamp
ed strictly fresh. Very often these eggs
sometimes they are fake pure and sim
pie The. wholesale dealers all know
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
land eggs.
Even the farmers themselves occas-
1onally yield to temptation. When a
man Is accustomed to providing sixty
New York dealer and. on account of
colo weather or natural cussedness, his
hens. fail him for a week or two and
furnish him only ten dozen a week. his
integrity Is sadly strained It 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 quanti-
ties of eggs to the West Indies and South
America, and even sends them as far
af1eld 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 1900 100000 from
the Continent