The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-03-10
HEAVY FINANCIAL LOSS SUS
TANNED BT COLD STORAGE
EGG PLANTS OF CHICAGO.
CHICAGO IS GREATEST MARKET
Co d Storage Year Runs From April
First to January First-Storage
People Say Past Year Was Disas
trous One Financially.

Ncl mas won another famous victory
/ over her riyal-thc cold storage plant
/ When the balance sheet was stru,h
| in Chicago Tor the egg year jus,
/ closed. it was discovered that ther,
had been an actual loss on the 80
100000 dozens + ogss that were put
INTO the Warehouses last spring. sum
mer and fall. On ten per cent OF
the stored eggs a profit had been
made; ON ten per cent the accounts
were about even; but on the remain.
ing so per cent there had been an
absolute loss. A loss OF PEI cent
per dozen on 2l.00O.0OO dozens eggs
would amount to $2i0,000.0O.
These are unofficia figures given
out by the officials of the Chicago
butter and egg board. The egg stor.
age year begins April l and coses
January |. There are no cold storage
eggs in Chicago now and have not
been any for two months.
Chicago is the greatest egg stor
age point in the country" said Way
land Palmer, chief egg inspector for
the board. Our warehouses have a
capacity OF 100000 cases. The to.
tai number of eggs produced In the
country is nearly 60,000,O0O cases,
Of which less than per cent are
stored. Upon the same basis the
fresh eggs disposed of in Chicago
annually amount to l2,j0O.OO0 cases
as against 100000 cases of storage
product. a case contains 30 dozens.
There is little money in cold
storage eggs. Counted by themselves
there seldom Is any money in them
The egg merchants use the cid stor-
age pants as sort OF insurance
concern to save them from big loss.
es on the summer when there is
great over-production and in winter
when, without the storage eggs tney
would have no business at all while
all their expenses were ing right
along.
Egg dealers make their purchases
In the spring and summer and fall
and pace the surplus in cold stor
age. The storage charges are / ceht
4 dozen-30 cents Il case-for eight
months from April to January. AZ
-er January there Is charge of
i've cents per case per month.
AN egg that is perfectly good /
hen put In cod tsorage will be
ust as good at the end f six months !
'ut no egg viii keep for a longe'
'oriod than year.
Perhaps 1t may be OF interest t.
tate that any consumer can store
lis own eggs In the cold storage
Wants upon the same terms the deaf
'rs pay. Eggs in as small quantitirs
Is ten cases Will be accepted TO-
storage.
This last year the average cost OF
he storage eggs, when taken out.
vas u cents per dozen. The average
eel ing price, wholesale, was 21la
onts. On the face OF these figure,
here Is a net loss OF 2ia cents per
oZcn. The total loss for the yea"
vas not much, however. as there was
good profit upon about ten per
ent of the stored eggs, and the
.ealers ah ut broke even on another
en- per cent,
In figuring up the losses Of course
cmc account must be taken OF tha
ummer business. Without the cod
forage plants eggs would be selling
low rs cents dozen In the
nmmcr; /. they did al the farmers
.ould make their hens stop laying.
'y putting the surplus in cod stor.
&c the egg dealers save the mar.
ct from Ing to smash and at the
anne time arrange it so the cCnsum.
'' 'f''' hlN tNkN 1T ItdsoltDle
r''es through the remainder of the
ear
u recall the time when eggs wer>
DID IN Chicago in the summer
'onths at $ and 10 cents a dozen.
nj in the winter they sold for from
to 90 cents-when they could ba
ought at all, Now the summer prices
'e h!sner. but the winter prices are
"er, and the average for the year
Ill be about the same. with a steady
.pply.
There are some peculiar phases
the egg business. Fresh eggs IT,
rger quantities than the demand 70.
ires' begin to come about April J