The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-20
new RULING WILL
INSURE GOOD eggs
Consumer to Be Protected as
Farmer Must Only Sell
Good Product.


June 1. the large egg dealers and ship
pers of the state will buy eggs loss
off," and will compel the farmer to sell
good eggs or none at all. This decis-
ion was reached at meeting yester-
day afternoon at the Grand hotel of
the Indiana association of Car Lot
shippers, which meeting avs attended
by nearly forty of the one hundred or
more members. Resolutions were
adopted asserting that after June / the
adopted asserting that after June 1.-the
plan of loss off"
amendment which the last legislature
added to the pure food law, making
1t violation of the law to offer bad
egg for sale. This law applies to the
farmer, the grocer, the huckster. the
dealer. the shipper or to anybody else
who sells eggs. H. E. Barnard, state
food and drug commissioner, attended
which he told the members his depart
ment would do everything in it's power
to enforce the new law. Up to this
time 1t has been the common practice
for the farmer to sell all his eggs in
a lot, regardless of whether the eggs
were good, bad or otherwise, and he
received flat price for them. The
take his chances on getting good eggs
when he bought eggs at grocery.
Fear Reckless Competition.
Some of the members of the asso-
citation at the meeting. objected to the
plan of buying loss off," because, they
said, while they might follow the rule
their competitors would continue to
buy the farmers eggs as they have
been doing. This. they said, would
mean that the dealer who insisted on
Gambling the eggs when he bought
them, and paying for them according
to grades, would lose his customers,
and would not be able to buy eggs
against a competitor who offered to
buy without Gambling or grading.
Mr.. Barnard told the members that
If they found any competitor doing
this, they should notify him, and he
would send an inspector to prosecute
the offender.
1T is crime for any person to offer
bad egg for SALE" said Mr.. Barnard,
land the fact that person had bad
egg in his possession is proof he in
tends to sell it. What we propose to
do under the new law is to prevent
the sale of bad eggs. We propose to
protect the consumer.
Consumer to Get Good Eggs.
when consumer goes to grocery
and buys dozen eggs he must get
good eggs. frequently, heretofore,
when a man bought a dozen eggs he
got two or three bad ones This prac-
tice must be stopped. The consumer
must get what he pays for. Not only
will we insist on the shipper living
up to the law, but we propose also that
every grocery shall guarantee the eggs
1t sells. Then the consumer will be
protected"
Some of the members said they had
seen in grocery stores signs that read.
I'VE do not guarantee the eggs we
SELL"
This will not help the grocers,"
said Mr.. Barnard They have got to
guarantee the eggs they SELL They
must deal fairly with their customers"
No Escape for lawbreaker.
Mr. Barnard said large placards had
been sent out to dealers notifying
them of the provisions of the law, and
that the law would be enforced.
1t was pointed out by some of the
members at the meeting that shippers
would evade the Indiana law by ship
ping their eggs to other state, thus
making the business interstate com.
merce. But Mr.. Barnard told them the
federal pure food law was almost iden-
teal with the Indiana law on this sub
ject, and that any shipper who under.
took to ship bad eggs out of the state
would be prosecuted against under the
federal law, and his shipments would
be seized.
The secretary vas directed to send a
notice to all the absent members, no
tffying them If the resolution IN huv