Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-19
Seventy five Cont Eggs.

Seventy rive Cont Eggs.
A report from Jersey City. dated
Nov. 20, says that selected strictly
fresh eggs sold in Jersey City
at rs cents a dozen, or more than 3
cents each. This is said to be the
highest price paid for thirty-tWo years.
The best grades of eggs sold
at 60 cents a dozen. Other grades
sold at So to 48 cents.
Out in the coast country eggs are
selling around forty and fifty cents
and promise to go higher. 1t seems
as tho such figures in any r OF the
country would be al incentive to sui
buying another spring, for cold sstor-
age purposes.
And now Alaska is drawing heavily
upon the egg supply of the Puget
| Sound country, but so far has refused
to take eggs brought in from farther
! east.
When the writer was in Alaska,
good eggs, next to good milk ana
cream, were the hardest thing to find,
the high price of eggs at coast points,
coupled with the long slow water
Transportation being the principal
CAUSES VI tHiS. WIN lHS OPSHt5 -
railroad thru to Alaska. from Edmon-
ton, there will be a renewal and great
| demand for all this kind Of product
turnout central Alaska mining camps
and settlements, for. do h they WILL
that great country can never grow
what it consumes, particularly its eggs
and cream.
During the past season, eggs In
Seattle dropped for but a brief period
to 20 cents; then they gradually rose
to 25 cents, and now command from
As to 60 cents. Some Of the Puget
Sound hens are productive layers.
| The 200-hen is quite common, and
| there are a number Of instances on
record of hens reaching the 800 mark.
Get Good Boosters Now.
Clean out the old ROSTERS and get
good fresh blooded ones while they
can be had cheaply. One can buy
them for much less, Of regular breed
ers even, in the fall than they can
next spring and if good enough birds
can be had of neighboring farmers
this is of all times the time to get
them.
Time and again we have a neigh
bors. and others far away drive into
our place or write us for two or three
good males just as they needed them
in later winter or early spring. Nearly
| always at such times we did not
have them, while the fall before we
killed splendid cockerels by the dozen
or sold them for twenty-five cents
| apiece, or, as In many instances, gave
them away. Only last week we saw a
farmer about to kill some of the
handsomest Brown Leghorn cockerels
we ever Jaw. while n%eighbors for
miles around had only scrub males
with their focks. Some of these peo-
pie see the need of better blood in
their f1ocks, but do not think to look
M good males until all but those
needed are killed off by those having
them. Then, in most cases., they VIII
defer buying n use scrubs again
rather than send to a regular breeder
and pay breeders spring prices.
In nearly every civilized neighbor-
hood today, if n looks far enough
in the fall. can be found really good
individual birds Of the leading stand
ard breeds that will be eaten or mar
keted and that can be had for a
nominal price. Many are glad to give
away such birds rather than to Kill
them, when they are needed for
breeding purposes. We advise, OF
course, p%atronizing good near home
breeders, when their prices are rea-
sonable and their birds show not only
excellence in breeding, but what is
of still more Importance, vigor and
good business qualities.