Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-01

Et1cS PAChED Markell
taller or to large consumers. such as
hotels. clubs and cafes. Selling of
poultry produce directly to the small
consumer is not very profitable
thing, and should not advise one to
attempt it unleSS%it is done in con-
nection with the milk route or other
regularly distributing business. Of
course this remark would not apply
to those who have a village flock Of
fowls where the children take dozen
eggs around the corner to friends and
neighbors.
To thes farmer in the great agricul-
turat districts far removed from any
city these outlets for poultry and
eggs are not available 1t is entirely
feasible for the farmer who has a
large enough flock to insure a case or
more week, to ship eggs by express
to cities some two or three hunderd
miles distant. but with the exception
of the larger consuming centerS of
the east the premiums paid will hard
~ make this profitable. When none
of the previous mentioned opportuni-
ties is available 1t remains for the
farmers of community to content
themselves either with the price that
the local produce dealer gives or to
form a cooperative marketing asso-
citation and market their own produce
Where the local produce buyer is at
all fair and reasonable / should not
advise farmers to hasten into coop
erative DEALS for some one must be
in charge and a man who owns the
business will give it more careful at
tention than one who is merely work
ing on a salary. But in either case
it is highly desirable that the farmers
get together and come to some under
standing with the egg buyer regard
ing purchasing of eggs en- some other
method than by case count.
The term case count means to buy
at a uniform price all eggs as they are
offered regardless of size and quality
Eggs in Denmark are all purchased by
weight. The time will undoubtedly
come when the same method will be
mediate need of reform. however, is
to insist upon the buying of eggs upon
a candled basis. especially in the sum
mer and fall. This means that the
buyer must keep each lot of eggs sep
arately and examine them with the
candle, or light and throw out the rot
ten and stale eggs. This. of course is
some trouble and expense, but there
is no other way known by which the
grade of eggs can be kept up and a
good price obtained.
If eggs are bought case count dis
honest producers Will send bad eggs
to market. which. mixed in with good
ones, will lower the price to all, and
the farmers who produced fair quail
ity OF eggs will be cheated out OF. their
honest profits. The egg dealer is only
too anxious to have eggs bought upon
quality basis. and it is the ignorance
of the, farmers to their own interest
that prevents such methods of buying
from becoming universal
Enterprising communities can make
a great step III advance of the market.
ing of their produce IL they win adopt
| a trade ma me for all products put out
by their locality and take pride In
seeing that nothing goes out under this
name that is not OF the best quality
Such movements usually involves
farmers cooperation. propaganda
which is rapidly growing in popular
ity throughout the country.
Essential Points of Egg Quality.
! Sometimes poultrymen secure fancy
] outlet for their eggs, but do. not appre
ciate the actual points Of quality suf
ficiently to hold their market. | have
known poultrymen TO Ship eggs which
were produced on poultry farm ant
were but a few days old and on tina
account seem to think they bad sufi
eient basis upon which to ask a goodl.
premium above market prices. when. a
a matter of fact. their eggs were &C
tually inferior to the better grade o
farm receipts from the more northerl
and densely settled communities