The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-12

Establishments Tor nfty-one car iosus "
eggs. contracting to pay for these the
price prevailing At the time OF their
delivery. This means something ike
$4,000 eggs; their fetal weight Will
be sac tons. and II the selling price In
Iowa 10 20 cents dozen, the Seattle
broker will pay Si22.400 for the lot
And these will not by any means con-
stitute the entire number OF eggs tnat
will be consumed In that city durins
the Alaska-Pacidc-Yu Yukon Exposition.
which will be held from June to DC
tober Is. when hundreds of thousands
OF visitors from all over the country
will be there.
AS one part Of iowa furnishes ts,-
100000 eggs a year the Seattle demand
will not produce dearth of eggs In.
that state. In April New York hrm
Kansas Greater New York consumes
1000 cases OF eggs q week. AS the
number OF eggs In case is either thir-
ty-two or thirty-six dozen, this means
at least only $4,000 eggs q day for
the city's tables, many hundreds not
being able TO AFFORD eggs. 1t 70 pre-
dicted by expert authorities that the
early crop will be short because far
seeing packers, anticipating later
price OF 45 cents dozen. and encour-
aged by last seasons good prices. are
beginning to store eggs.
Few products have Increased so rap
idly in value as have eggs. Where the
1900 census showed poultry and egg
valuation of something under $780,
100000. the latest census OF the Bureau
of Animal Industry Of the National De-
partment of Agriculture shows that this
valuation has reached $780, 100000. or
this Kansas alone produced 100000
worth. The price in that time has gone
from IL Ia cents to 1s1-2. Eggs fur
nish over 3 per cent. of the total food
Of the populace. and with every tu-
berculosis patient encouraged TO take
at least dozen a day, and every soda
fountain mixing egg drinks for every
twentieth customer. the demand for
eggs will doubtless increase 10 phe-
nomenal degree this year. Chemists
show that 1t takes pound and q quar-
ter of beef worth at least rs cents. to-
equal in nutrition fye eggs worth 10,
cents. On this basis the housewife
often pays two and half times as
much for meal as she might IL she
understood better the values OF food.
According TO the best authorities
care Of poultry for egg producing ID
most remunerative occupation and the
principal requisite on the part of the
person who Iauuches the enterprise is'
good common sense. The average an
nual production OF eggs in the United
States - only olAby-4Ve SkkB 10 eacn
hen. though enterprising Maine hens
have raised the average for their State
to 102, II the poultry standard is
raised among the farmers, by means OF
study, the reading of literature. or the
attendance Of lectures on the subject,
there is no reason, according to ex-
perts. why the American hen may not
be brought to lay 200 eggs q year. and
eggs Of a. large size and good quality.
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layers should be killed when three and,
half years old to make room for
younger and better ones. Massachu-
sets is trying to get the Legislature
of that State to appropriate sum OF
money for educational work among
poultry and egg raisers Just as Iowa
has done for dairy workers. $4,000
having been appropriated for this pur-
pose In that State.
That the breed can be improved IL
noted from the fact that eggs from the
poorest Southern farms, chiefly from
Games and Hamburgs weigh only nine
teen and one-ffth ounces per dozenj
from the poor strains of Leghorns that
constitute the chief poultry popuia-
ton of the Tennessee and Texas farm-.
yards, the eggs weigh two ounces more,
while Southern Iowa sends eggs from
the pure farm hocks that weigh twen-
ty-four ounces to the dozen. Selected
brands OF imported Danish eggs-and
the United States imports largely. from,
Denmark--weigh a fraction under
twenty-nine ounces to the dozen.
It Is in Denmark that the ideal
method OF collecting and shipping eggs
Is found. There are $4,000 or more
farmers enrolled in the Danish Egg
Association, and eggs are collected on
the farms every day or three times a
week. Eggs from each farm are mark
ed with letters and numbers. 30 the
goods OF each consignor Is known at
glance, The eggs are "candled." or
examined under a strong light to test
their quality. II one bad egg Is found
in a farmers consignment ne ts fined
for the first offense. and for the second
offense In one year he Is expelled from
the Association and must thereafter get
his eggs on the market through his own
efforts.
In the United Kingdom like Efforts
have been made to protect the public
In the matter of egg buying and at
the same time allow the producer to
get good value for the shipments. Over
thirty branches or .depots have been
established there, so that eggs may be
collected when fresh and shipped at
once. Compare this with the general
method of the American farmer. AS
q rule eggs on the average farm are
fresh from nests where hens have been
sitting, and these are traded at the
country store for such commodities as
the small farmer needs. The country
merchant takes his chances with the
eggs, rather than lose a customer.
and then ships the lot at q small price
to a large city factor. There Gambling
Is generally resorted to. in order that
good eggs may be placed on the mar
ket, 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 has to compete with the poor.farm
product in States where pure food laws
have nothing to say, in the matter.
Special packing boxes are used by
manv of these farms. boxes that hold.
each, a dozen eggs and that are sealed
and stamped with the name of the
shipper and the date on the seal. THIS
guarantees freshness. "A number Of
small egg farmers have a way of writ
ing on each egg, as 1t is collected. the
date 1t is laid and the breed of the
hen that laid It, a useful device if buy
ers for the gigantic central incubators
happen to be canvassing that particu-
lar locality for eggs.
Within fifty miles OF San Francisco
Is the country's banner egg center,
Petaluma in Sonomo County Cailfor.
MIA, Seventy-f1ve per cent. of the PEG.
Pile in that country are poultry and egg
raisers, those in the towns and VII
lagos raise for their own needs and sell
the surplus stock. On the small farms
from 1900 to 1900 hens are kept. and
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