The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-19
SECRETS OF THE EGG TRADE.
THE WINTER FRESH ECO NOW
PRACTICALLY A NTH.
How the LINED Fresh Variety Came Into
Existence. ana Why IT'S Passing Out
Of voEue-tse OF Compressed Air In
Cold storage Worked the hange

market to-day where there were a hun
bred dozens OF them ten years ago. eaid
an egg dealer, referring to the alleged
corner in cggs o agitating local dealers.
1T doesn't require a very old man TO re-
member when egg were almost invariably
so few in the New York market during
the winter season and the prices for them
ruled so high, that they were beyond the
pocketbook Of the average consumer
This was not because OF any corner in eggs,
nor Of any attempt OF those who supplied
the market with eggs to hold them back
for high prices. It would have been i'm
possible to corner or hold back eggs In those
days because there was no way In which
the life of IN egg Ms a rule could DO pre-
served more than two or three days. The
hens laid just as willingly then in warm
weather MS they do now and were just
as reluctant TO I'll the nest in cold weather
as they are now. But in former times
the warm weather eggs had to be disposed
OF and used without undue delay or they
became precarious substances. objects oil
Just suspicion, and of no possible use
except, perhaps, as an occasional tribute
10 some passing Thespian output, rottener
yet Than the eggs.
when eggs came TO market In those
DAYS they were either fresh or they were
not. There we're no intermediate degrees
of f~reshness. II they were not fresh they
we're classed a. stale. If they had passed
the stale stage they were rotten, and that
was all there was TO It..
well, there being no way to keep the
eggs the hens laid p~lentifully In the spring
and summer until tho season when the
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occasional evidence Of good faith on the
part OF the hens, the winter supply was
necessarily small and the price correspond
ingly large. Then, along toward the close
Of the Civil War, a chemist. probably a
lover Of & yet unwilling 20 pay the big
winter price for them, got 1t into his head
that IL was possible to preserve hen fruit
as well as any other kind OF fruit, and he
evolved a pickle. composed of water, lime,
salpetre and salt, which he commended 10
the consideration OF the rural producer OF
eggs. The rural producer of eggs con-
sidered the pickle and found that an egg
confded to its care for a certain period
became impervious to the assaults of time,
as il were, and could be put on the market
In good and wholesome condition months
after the hen had parted with 1t. This
revolutionized the egg industry, and II was
not long before the found the
winter market flush with eggs, ostensibly
fresh, although their birth, as a matter OF
fact, antedated by many weeks their adj
vent as conservers Of the domestic economy
In the hard boil, the soft, the medium or
In the poach or in the fry, one side or turned
over, and at a price that enabled INN 10
take home his dozen or two with az much
immunity and confidence rs he had mani
tested on the warm weather market.
AT first no hint escaped from the market
that these generous offerings oil the hens
were not co~ntemporaneous with the season
then on hand. and the eggs were quoted
ns fresh eggs. But in time, although ne
could not exactly hold the eggs up as
objects Of reproach, the consumer thought
he detected a flavor 60 them that war not
habitual 10 the fresh-laid egg. Then they
had a disposition to crack their shell When
boiling, which he had not observed m the
egg he used 20 gather at the old farm
when the hen cackIed. And his WE dis-
covered that thee eggs declined 70 re-
spond with any degree OF Willingness 70
her Efforts TO beat them TO that ffothy
and foamy condition required for the sue
ceesful fabrication - 'he pudding or tho
cake, and that when they Lad al lasl b'"il
induced 90 come "a taw IN that TtrI"'t
they arrived there - overcome WIN
NFIFlINhNN NIlhN III AA' .
tie heater ceased they sank inertly back
10 the level Of the platter, something which
no heretofore fresh egg had ever been
guilty Of doing. .,
THAT wa tie time when the fad for all
sorts and conditions Il imported "a II
lad taken strong hold on poultrym"n
and egg rai-ers, professional ana anna
tour. anu the ever faithful native barn
ward fowl Was Tor the time sneer~d az,
~ the market CAV" u out that pefials
the odd and reluctant character oi ti"
prevailing winter tTesh NJ va due 20 tho
new stfaln of heB and unat q would be AL
right again ~ coon m the CONSUMER fut
usrd b. IL, but 4 was no use, ana ~ anu ~
the market gave y out that thoso 'gsS
were fresh egg picfled. .
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