The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-11-03
ANOTHER VAR MAY
SEE egg DEAL ERS
IN PURE FOODL
THE MATTER is BEING AGGiTAT-
ED AS WAS NEVER DONE
BEFORE.
Universal Article Of Food and Should
Be of the Best and Freshest and
Some Satisfactory Method OF AS
suring This Is Object Desired

1t has been said and shown that
there is no article Of food that is
more universally used than the egg
Go where you may and among wnom
you may the product of the hen is a
fayorite dish. All nations and al
people worship at the shrine OF the
hen, and all recognize er as a neces
sity to right eating,
This being true it is manifestly un
fair to sell everything with a shell
on it as an egg. Under the >undi
tions that have long existed the
dealer from first hands has sold his
eggs to the merchant or huckster and
received the same for It,
whether small or large, clean or dir
ty, fresh or otherwise. The farmer
who keeps good fowls feeds them well
and gives them good care and natu.
rally the stock he puts on the market
is more desirable than the indlffer.
ent product marketed by the one who
has scrub stock he never feeds and
which steals their nests out and the
eggs not found until they are sale.
Clean, fresh eggs are worth from ten
to thirty per cent more than the mar
Ike price for the general market be-
cause in the general quotations al
lowance must be made for the had
eggs.
With these conditions existing is it
at all surprising that the dealers, re-
tail and Wholesale are demanding
that there be some sort of system
whereby justice can be done all par
ties?
One local retail dealers said to a
Herald representative he had had
more complaint of bad eggs this sea-
son than ever before, and that there
positively must be some method de-
vised to protect himself and his pa
irons, and that his house was not
alone a sufferer in this respect, and
that it was more than likely that be-
fore another season that some system
would be adopted looking to this end.
Nashville dealers are taking steps
to have the pure food laws applied
to the egg supply, it being regarded
as the most certain and satisfactory
remedy for the evil complained Of If
this is done it will prevent the hold
ing out of eggs when the prices are
low and then selling them at a high
price on the advanced markets when
they are unfit for consumption The
plan is for the dealers to take the
matter up with the officials and force
handlers to place only fresh eggs on
the market. 1t is we'll nigh an i'm
possibility for persons in the country
to keep eggs for any length of time
in state fit for consumption, anc ii
Is remedy for the hold out" process
that they are seeking to find.
According to the pure food laws
fresh eggs and cold storage stock
cannot be mixed and sold without a
liability. There is to be established
some sort of Gambling suytem and
he bad stock all thrown out
Another season may see the Column
bia retail merchants all working
through IAN egg clearing house" that
will obviate the stale egg evil. And
when this is done, if ever, it will put
he farmer in an attitude where he
IAN demand and receive a better all
he year round price. He will gather
Eggs often and market them with reg
llarity thus insuring pure, fresh eggs ,
1t the very best prices all the time.
The size of the egg, too, is to be con-
idered. Large, well formed eggs
will bring a better price than the
mall irregular ones, and this will
end toward the encouragement of
the pure bred fowls on
he farms instead of the mongreI
reeds that now obtain in many rlac-
s, in fact in most places.
These matters are being more free
Y discussed every day by the COM
mission man, the retailer and the
onsumer, and all agree that it will
OF only be better for the consum-
RS but for the man who sells the
gigs from first hands, in that it will
i've him the best prices at all times
f the year, and that, too, without
NJ question upon the part of any
ne.