The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-09-09
CALIFONIAS BUSINESS METHODS
New Way OF Making Money on Eggs
and Fruits.


Coronado Beach, San Diego, Cal,
Aug. 3O.-They do business on bust
ness principles here in California.
While l enjoy the balmy air of south
efn California-for climate is perfect
end admire the grand scenery-for 1
am lover Of nature--what most at
tracted my attention was the high de-
gree of perfection to which their bust
ness methods have been brought;
while labor unions ATE not as power
full here as they are in the east, we
find the country districts bound to-
gcthcr by u web Of associations that
is simply wonderful. The orange,
lemon, peach, pear, srarr, olive, al
mond, walnut. honey and even tic
egg producers each lavc separate
association, controlled Dy their best
men, and thus By their combining they
are enabled to get better prices for
their products.
This vas strikiugly demonstrated
to me by an association that handles
eggs; the community in which it opcr-
atcs sells no cheap eggs but preserves
them all during the period Of low
prices, and does not sell any until
they bring at least 80 cents dozen;
eggs in California never bring less
than IL cents dozen, and generally
go up to 35'or 40 cents during the win
ter. l aeked the secretary If it was
net difficult SC Eet SO many farmers to
bring their eggs in regularly for pre-
serving; he ssid most of the p6oPie
preserve their eggs ct home, the asso.
cietion furnishing the pressFver, and
telling them when to bring che eggs in
4or shipment; he said. "We have in
telligent people out here; they will
not sell their eggs for 12cents dozen.
It would be as foolish for the farmer
10 sell his wheat for 35 cents bushel,
when he knew by keeping it four or
Eve months he could get Is cents."
I asked him il people could not
make money in the east preserving
eggs, ss I would like to try it. He
said they could; that he started pre-
serving eggs in Indiana with $40, and
in seven years made $4,000; that
there was no locality where people
could not make $50 per cent. preserv.
ing eggs, as eggs get low in summer
and high in winter everywhere, and
that person starting even with So
would get rich by reinvesting the pro-
ceeds each year. He said that they
did not sell formulas, but that he
would gladly give me one, as they
always sent the formulas free to
any one that wro.e for one one, or
gave them to those that called, so
If any Of my friends in The east
want to try preserving eggs, you can
get the formula with complete direc-
tions free by addressing the Egg Pro-
.duoers Association, Ooeanside, Cali
fornia. The eggs keep perfectly for
one year and you caunot tell them
from fresh eggs andit costs cent
dozen to preserve them; If you write
for . formula you should enclose
three or four 2-cent stamps as it takes
money to pay postage and printing.
/ am going to preserve some eggs as
soon as I go home, for this is some
thing that minister can do without
conflicting with his duties in the
least. I am going to start with so
and reinvest the proceeds for 10 years
and then I can buy California home
too.
Another thing that greatly inter
ested me was the beautiful preserved
fruit Of all kinds that you can sec
here. They put it up without heat
ing or sealing and it tastes like fruit
freshly picked; it docs not shrink up
or get soft as our canned fruit does,
and you can keep it in this fresh state
for years for a cost of about cent
quart. Anyone can also get this for
mula for keeping fruit without heating
or sealing free by addressing the Cali
fornia Fruit Association, Carlsbad,
California. (Of course enclose stamps
for postage, etc.) Many of you have
no doubt seen fruit kept in this way
at the exposition where California
fruits are exhihited. Il 10 ainnlu arana