The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-02-12

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and dirty eggs are put aside.
Not an egg OF any sort is wasted
The hopelessly bad eggs. not bought
mp for campaigning purposes. are SOLD
for use in tanning processes. The dir
ties and the cracked eggs go to the
bakers, as do many of the stale eggs
Dirty and stale eggs are also sold tc
the small dealers in the poor quarters
of the city. where the trade cannot ar
ford high prices. The best retail deal.
ers of the city buy only the best Sc
lected or mixed eggs. One New York
grocery firm has bought $4,000 words
of first-grade eggs this month and
doesn't consider il big month either
The country is practically cleared
of fresh eggs now; and the supply will
he small from this time until March
or April, but millions of eggs are
packed away in the storage houses
and 1t would be indeed long winter
that could exhaust the supply. OF
course, an egg does lose its flavor with
storage, but it doesn't spoil, in the or.
binary acceptance OF that word. and
eggs are frequently kept ten months
without being unfit for use. At the
time Of New York's last blizzard. wheu
entrance to the city was absolutely
blocked, the storage egg supply was
fairly cleaned out. and tcn-month- old
eggs sold for n price higher than that
ordinarily brought by fancy fresh
eggs.
1t is an established fact that storage
the salt air. as the salt seems to af.
feet the eggs unfavorably Nothing, in
fact. is more easily tainted than ar
egg, though one might suppose that
its shell would protect it, A Buffalo
dealer last season stored 1000 cases
of eggs, 800 in a case, in the same
house with consignment of pears
and the eggs took on such n distinct
pear favor that they were sold for P
very small price in the New YORK.
market
There is money in the egg business
even for farmers who go into il in q
small way; and almost every first
class city grocery has on its books
few local farmers who furnish small
supplies Of eggs superior in appearance
and stamped strictly fresh Very Otter
these eggs are all the buyers fancy
paints them. Sometimes they are fake
pure and simple. The Wholesale deal
erS all know one small downtown firm
that buys ordinary eggs of them ut
fair price, stamps each one with .
Long Island address and date and sells
them at a fancy price as strictly fresh
Long Island eggs.
Even the farmers themselves occa.
sionally yield TO temptation. When
man is accustomed to providing sixty
dozen eggs week at a big price for :,
New York dealer and. on account of
cold weather or natural cusSednesS
his hens fail him for a week or two
and furnish him only ten dozen o
week, his integrity is sadly strained.
1t would be so exceedingly easy to run
up to New York. buy fifty dozen fresh
eggs ut Il fair price, stamp them With
his stamp ard send them Off. No one
would be hurt. the eggs would he good
and his profits would be intact Pre-.
sumablY the ordinary farmer groang
Retro Sathanas" and stands his loss
but thereSare others That is why
wholesale dealers grin iovially when
one asks them about strictly fresh
eggs
The United States export large guam.
titles of eggs 60 the West Indies AMI
South America, and even send them
as far aield as South Africa. but
France Russia, Belgium and Den
mark practically supply the European
market England. oddly enough. pro-
duces few eggs and imports yearly
more than 1,3OOOOO,OOO from the Co
tlnent-New York Sun