The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-07-24
Fancy Hennery" Eggs.

New DIRK produce ReV1eW told the
following story III his last weekly let
ter:
IF you have few minutes to spare
[ want you to look at some Of these
eggs, which came from Maine, and
which were shipped to me as fancy
hennery eggs said one Of our prin-
c1pal dealers, as we were passing his
store. The eggs as they were packed
looked fresh and brown, of good size,
and had all the appearance of being
suited to the best trade "You see
they look all right, but if you take
up one or two you will find that they
are sloppy and apparently have been
kept over somewhere until they have
become stale. A week ago the same
shipper sent me a case which he war
ranted to be strictly hennery, just from
his own hens, and which [ found to
be all right. For those I returned the
top price, which you know was higher
that week than previously But now
come along two more cases, purpOrt-
ing to be the same kind of eggs, for
which the shipper expects the same
price. But they are not worth within
2 cents of the value Of the first case
SO as to get the advantage of the high
rate, and the shipper, | suppose, ex-
pected [ would pass them off without
closely examining them. OF course,
[ intend to call the shippers attention
to this matter, but [ know there will
be dispute over il"
When will farmers learn that tricks
like this do not pay? For they never
do, in the long run.-New England
Farmer
Americas Largest Poultry Farm.
The Farm News tells about, what
it claims, is the largest poultry farm
in this country, and we presume that,
If that is true, it is also the largest
in the world. We see no reason why
such an enterprise should not be even
more profitable in Florida than in
Pennsylvania. Of course, we have not
the mines to furnish mule meat, but
probably cheap substitute could be
found, and we have so many other
advantages that the mule item might
be dispensed with.
The News article is as follOws
Americas largest poultry farm is up
in the mountainous anthracite region
of Pennsylvania. The farm consists
of eighty-tWo acres. The buildings
and yard Of the immense plant cover
over th1rty-flve acres, and the amount
Of floor space under roof is a little
more than $4,000 square feet. In
addition to being the largest, it is one
of the best equipped plants ever built
in this country or abroad. 1t is light
ed by electricity, heated by steam and
Watered by a system of pipes which
are fed by an immense living we'll on
the premises. Everything about the
place is conducted on a wholesale basis
There is a root and vegetable store
house, where thousands of bushels OF
beets, carrots, turnips, cabbage, ETC.,
are stored away every fall for winter
use. This house is built below the
level of the ground to protect it's con-
tents from frost
In one of the buildings there is an
immense fOod-cOoker, which will hold
a thousand gallons It is two stories
high, being loaded from above and
emptied from below Several barrels
of fresh meat and bones are dumped
in at once, the door bolted down and
a pressure Of seventy pounds Of steam
turned into it for thirty minutes, at
the end Of which time the entire sub
stance, meat, bone and all, is reduced
to soup. Mule meat is used almost
exclusively in making this broth. The
farm is in the center of the anthracite
coal district, so that aged and lame
animals, or those killed by accident
are easily obtainable The soup made
from the flesh of the mules is used
to mix with the food of the young