The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-12

ueEs Win tNO Iowa egg PACKING eStaD4lsu-
ments, Tor fifty-One carloads OF eggs, con-
tracing to pay for these the price pre-
Vailing at the time Of their delivery. rms
means something like 7,S44,000 eggs, their
total weight viii be $50 tons, and II the
| selling price in Iowa is % cents a dozen,
| the Seattle broker viii pay SlZ2,4OO for the
1 lot And these will not by any means
| constitute the entire number Of eggs that
will be consumed in that city during the
Alaska-Pacific-Y Yukon exposition, which
will be held from June 10 Oct. ID, when
! hundreds Of thousands Of visitors from all
| over the country will be there.
| As one part Of Iowa alone furnishes
| 100000 eggs a year the Seattle demand
VIII not produce d dearth OF eggs IN tndI
| twenty carloads OF eggs from Kansas.
| Greater New York consumes 5000 cases
/ of eggs 4 week AS the number OF eggs
I in a case is either thirty-tBO OF thirty
/ six dozen, this means at least only 494,VU
| eggs a day for the city's tables, many
/ hundreds not being able TO afford eggs
/ It is predicted by expert authorities tnat
| the early crop viii be short because lar
/ seeing packers, anticipating A later price
| of - cents a dozen, and encouraged Dy
/ laSt seasons good prices. are beginning 10
| stAre eggs.
/ in value as have eggs. Where the 1917
1 census showed a poultry and egg yaiuauOn
4 Of something under S3O0,OGOU, the latest
| census Of the bureau Of animal industry
| of the national department Of agriculture
shows that this valuation has reached
/ S6000G0,OO0 Of this Kansas alone pro-
/ duced 600 worth. The price IN tnat
| time has gone from 111a TO lS12 cents Eggs
| furnish over per cent Of the total 1000
! of the populace. and with every tubercu-
! losis patient encouraged to take AT ieast
1 a dozen a day and every soda fountain
mixing egg drinks for every twentieth Gus
| toner, the demand for eggs VIII 0ouDtless
| increase to a phenomenal degree this year;
/ Chemists show that it takes pound ana
| a quarter Of beef worth at least y cents
| to equal in nutrition five eggs. worth ~
! cents. On this basis the housewife often
I pays two and a half times as much for a
/ meal as she might If she UNDERSTOOD Jet
/ ter the values Of food
| According to the best authorities care or
/ poultry for egg producing Is d most IT,
/ munerauve occupation and the prlncipdl
| requisite on the part Of the person VINO
| launches the enterprise is good common
I sense. The average annual production OF
! eggs in the United States is only slXty-flFe
! eggs to each hen though enterprlsih6
| Maine hens have raised the average for
! their state 70 102. IL the poultry standard
I is raised among the farmers. by means OF
1 study. the reading of literature. or the at
/ tendance OF lectures on the subject. ~
is no reason. according to experts, why the
] American hen may not be brought TO iay
go eggs j year. and eggs OF a large sIe
! and good quality. Pullets are the Dsss
LAYERS, and all egg layers should be kuieC
/ when three and a half years old 10 make
room for younger and better ones. Massd-
I chusetts is trying TO get the leslSIatuI
money for educational work among pOOi-
try and egg raiseTs just as Iowa mas done
for dairy workers. $4,000 having been ap-
prODriated for this purpose in that state,
That the breed can be improved is noted
from the fact that eggs from the poorest
southern farms, chiefly from Games ana
Hamburgs. weigh only nineteen ana one
fifth ounces per dozen, from tne poor
strains of Leghorns that constitute the
chief DouItrv population Of the Tennessee
and Texas farmyards, the eESs Welgh Two
ounces more, while southern iowa Se .llls
eggs from the pure bred farm flocks that
weigh twentv-four ounces to the Dozen
Selected brands Of imported Danish eggs
and the United states imports largely
/ from Denmark-Weigh a traction under
! twenty-nine ounces to the dozen.
II is in Denmark that the ideal method
Of collecting and shipping eggs IS found
There are 240J0 OF more farmers enrolIe9
in the Danish Egg association ana eggs
! are collected on the farms every Gay OF
| three times q week. Eggs from each IaTh
are marked with letters and numbers, 50
the goods of each cOnstguOT Is known At a
! Glance Thu eggs are "Candled' or eX-
| amined under a strong light TO test theF
/ quality. If one bad egg is found IN z
farmers consignment he Is Tined tor tIe
first offense. and for the second OILeTse
in one wear he is expelled from the as
ISOLATION. and must thereafter get his eggs
on the market through his own EFFORTS.
| In the United bingham like efforts nave
been made TO protect the public in the
matter Of egg buying and at the same
! time allow the producer 70 get good value
for the shipments over thirty prancheS
or depots have been established there so
that eggs NAV be collected when tresh
and shipped at once. Compare this Win
the general method of the American far
mer As rule eggs on the average taINl
are collected at uncertain intervals. some
! from nests where hens have been sitting,
and these are then traded at the country
store for such commodities as the snail
| farmer needs. The country merchant taxes
his chances with the eggs, rather than
lose a customer, and then ships the lot at
a small price 70 a large city factor. There
Gambling is generally TesoTted 10 n or Der
that good eggs may be placed on the
market but very generally the signs on
the cases might be made to read. as in the
Bowery not long ago; Strictly fresh
eggs" fresh eggs, eggs. ---...,
The regular egg farm in the United
States and Canada has taken many steps
| already to preserve its integrity, but mas
to compete with the poor farm product
in states where Dure food laws have moth
ing to say in the matter Special packing
boxes are used by many Of these farms,
boxes that hold, each, dozen eggs ana
that are sealed and stamped with the
name of the shipper and the date on the
seal This guarantees freshness. NUM-
Der Of small egg farmers have a way OF
the date it is laid and the breed of the
hen that laid 1t, a useful device If buyers
for the gigantic central incubators hap
pen to be canvassing that particular 10
!
Within fifty miles OF San Francisco is
| the cOuntry's banner egg center. Peta-
luna in SOnOms county. California. sew
entv-five per cent of the people in that
county are poultry and egg raisers; those
in the towns and villages raise for their
[ own needs and sell the surplus stock On
! the small farms from 100 to 1,SOG hens
ara kept and on the larger ones the hen
population ranges from 1850 to 15,00o.
There are said to be a million white Leg
horn hens in that county. specially
being made of that breed, for they are
I considered the best layers and rarely care
. I to sit Each Of these hens nets its owner
never less than 80 cents a year, all lay
ing 100000 dozen eggs in 1901 One man
1 in this county makes an annual profit
/ Of 5000 on eggs, having two helpers, and
the three dev0ting their entire time 10
I the business.
Poultry and egg raising Is decared 70
/ be strictly a mans business, requiring the
exercise Of the very faculties that make
I a successful lawyer. business man or
farmer, and requiring an expenditure o.
energy and time that are too great tax
2 on he vera Common sense