The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Mike E. Flynn, Who Comes to keo.
kuk Quite OFTEN as Pure Food
Inspector, Declares 1t
is Not Fresh.
TALKS AT DAVENPORT
Explains That After Eggs Have Been
Laid Away in Cold Storage for
Five or Six Months They
Partly Evaporate.

Look out for the rafting egg.
said Food Inspector M. e. Flynn in
speaking of the crusade he has been
conducting for the pure food depart.
ment against alleged fresh eggs in
Davenport this week. says me Dav.
export Times. ut is a very simple
test, but an effective one to eliminate
large portion OF the packed eggs
from the category of the freshly laid.
Hold the egg up near your ear and
shake it, If it rattles 1t is not fresh
egg.
Understand, don't say It rs a bad
egg. Packed or storage eggs are not
necessarily bad eggs. B,.1 a house.
wife should not be called on to pay
fresh egg prices for this quality or
goods. Fresh eggs. are full. There is
no air space and no chance for them
to rattle. But after while they be.
gin to eyaporate and in four or five
months about one-sixth or one-fifth Of
the filling is gone Therefore the
buyer does, not receive his run value
for what he buys, and the egg is not
fresh and cannot be sold for such, and
prosecutions will follow wherever we
find that this is being done
- 1t can readily be seen that large
community may be swindleo out OF
thousands of dollars on eggs in a
short time. If the dealer can label
his eggs fresh he can add from seven
TO ten cents a dozen to the price of
them. And the public pays the bill.
cit is no excuse in a court of law
that the retailer purchased the eggs
as the fresh article. He is supposed
TO exercise proper care to ascertain
that he Is buying fresh eggs and so
protect the cons Iraer. Nor is the
commission man acknowledgements he
buys, the eggs from country shippers
as fresh. He has means of Knowing
fresh eggs from the storage and
packed variety
Packed eggs do not all come from
the big storage plants in Chicago.
They often come from the farmer
collar or the store room of country
commission men. During the late
spring and early summer when the
price of eggs is lower there is a
tendency among the country folks to
keep their eggs packed away in the
cellar until winter, when the price
scars, then bring them in the mar.
ket and demand fresh egg prices by
the big commission houses wr,ch keep
them in an even temperature in their
big storehouses
But the eggs come from the coun-
try and the supposition naturally is
that they are fresh
Mr. Flynn spent some time last
Week watching at the Bell-Jones com
pany plant He was observing ship
ments brought in from the commission
men in the country towns Throughout,
the state. In several cases it was
found that eggs shipped in marked as
fresh contained many old eggs. He
will follow up these shipments to Their
sources and start prosecutions against
the men who shipped them and try In
this way to reach the man at the mi
tial end of the deal as wei as the
grocer and wholesale commission
men
But few of these eggs are shipped
out of the state to New York or the
other big eastern cities, as the com
mission men know enough not to take
any chances with government in
spectors, who are watching closely fol
these western shipments