The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1901-11-07

What be said. which moved him 10
!, msrk.
= IL you doa't believe that IL ifue, you
aud furnish ffesb eggs 10 the Nes Yor
o" vho ere iasi yesrnios Tor them. %
have eope. aud soe II The yesrnen .
siilios 10 pay you . price that will Q
able you TO bay your daily bread, 10 s
pothipe OF the batter Yon oil like ire
ssg'. Of oourse, aod perhsps yoa sill p,
. bali xsy decent price Tor them for
short time daring tho winter. bu, vb
sboni the rest Of the yesrf
Have Jon ever stopped TO ihink that n
man Who is sble TO supply you With fro,
eggs dorios the winter hes had TO spen
. great deal oi time 10 studyins up th,
particularly subIec,f Are you aware th,
be hss been obliged TO breed . lot Of bee
during The spring aud early summer On
that be has bad 10 feed snd care Tor ther
for sir months vi hous getting ono ceu
10 rsturn' Have you stopped 10 thin
that be must carry . stock ihroughou
the year Ia order to have the fowls Icy in
when you want eggs. aud be must hons
bis fowls In warm snd expensively buil
cooper Aad. above ell else, upderstsn,
when ! say fresh EGG mean an egg ths
is no more than q dsy old when IL is ser
we'd to you.
How many times have you eaten on egs
here thst was not more than . day old
Why there ere people IN the country wbt
make = specislty OF sending into New YorL
what they consider fresh eggs, which AZ,
anywhere from three days to three weeks
old.
think you ought to understand that
the eggs sold in New York as "strie,ly
fresh" are any old sse. The farmers wife
saves them until she has eoodly number
to sell at the grocery or to make . fair
when the egg collector comes
around, Tor there are men who make .
OF gathering eggs. They have
routes laid ont through certain territory,
md they traverse them once every two
weeks. Thus, as you can see. the eggs
ire ct least two weeks old on the average
before they get into the hands Of the col
ector.
The collector keeps them in a cellar
Until be gets enough together to justify
lin 10 making q shipment to the city.
Fhich may be sny here from one TO three
geess. depending on the time OF the
ear. Then when the com mission man
eceives them here be keeps them . few
.ys until they are sold. so that your
res a eggs come dangerously near to being
month old. That's why / can under-
tsnd thss the egg desler-sud be happens
, be oae Of the biggest men 10 bis line in
30 town -said be considered every egg
'esh that didn't hatch while In t.ansit to
30 city.
Now let me tell you why believe New
ork doesn't want fresh eggs Ut = fresh
30 price. il il vents them st All. ship
ed eggs irto the city that we're not more
ian three hours old when they we're
laced in the hands OF the consumer here
suppose you never before heard Of eggs
} fresh as those getting into New York;
q . TACT nevertheless. When the eggs
II my place. many Of them bad only .
v minutes before been taken from the
,sts and were still warm. The trip on
'e cars occupied . little more than On
,ur. and within another hour or so the
press COMPANY had delivered them 1t
cir destination.
Those we're fresh eggs, gentlemen mot
triotly fresh" nor guaranteed fresh."
Il PLAIN fresh eggs.
l found any number OF people who
eded those fresh eggs 10 round ont
cir lives. They we're the one thing mic.
,g until they received the bill for
em, and then there was q time.
Mind you. they we're charged no more
40 30 cents Q dozsn 10 the coolest oil
nter weather Tor the only fresh eggs 10
w York and how they did go onl Many
them who hsd been most enthusiastic
81 the eggs before the bills we're sent
refused to psy the bills on the ground
u the eggs we're inst the worst, stale
eggs that ever had been, whereas
ne Of the eggs was more than "a hours
J, aud many OF them % l have said,
re no, more than three hours old, :
" hen ! cornered them on the fresh
70 Of the eggs, these yesrners made oil
to OF silly complaints. The trouble :
ID them wss that they wanted the eggs. :
! didn't want TO pay for them. 30
y went back to fresh eggs from the cold !,
rsge plant. back 10 eggs thst we're six .
nths old -snd we're happy. hope.
bsd one customer who bought the eggs :
sdvioe OF . physician, This man hsd
, children who we're convelescent after
attack OF scsrlet fever The msn Vas
fairly com mfortsble circumstspces sod n
physician told him the eggs we're et
ng bis children more good thsn sry. q,
ug else be could get. We we're selling pl
, the eggs At 40 cen,s . dozen, snd Cd
en- the price was raised TO l5 cents . d,
90 this nsu was up 10 arms and re-
ed 10 take any more. suppose The vi
ldren came sroand oil right. slough
ever heard scf'hips more sbont them. 90
'om plsibis ssfs .slso msde thst the O.
. sere to- 'rssh. Wouid you believe D.
csn sbos yea letters received on "
particular subjscl. The msiority Of
% ran like ihis: ~
Dsu SIR viii you pIesse send us eggs
be foinfe that are not 20 ireshi We er
not like stst milky cardle 10 them. OF