Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-25
Tho Farmers' Esas.
wallace Farmer1

wallace Farmer
FARMERS are complainirs sarions,>-
about the low price of eggs during tho
summer season, and the scarcity of
eggs when they bring the most money.
| fart or this complaint arises from the
Tact that they do not take the proper
pains 10 have as many eggs as pos
sl9ie "hen eggs are high; but a large
part OF 1t Is due to the lack of proper
| marketing
! III the past eggs have been gathered
on the farm when it suits to gather
! 'iSHl' sometimes once a day some
! 'laies once a week. Hens have been
a4ioWeo 10 nave their own sweet way,
make their nests where they fancied:
so that the eggs literally had to be
hunted instead of gathered The
! eggs when found were kept wherever
| 1t was convenient, perhaps in a hot
Kitchen, and if fresh. they would not
| be strictly fresh by Saturday.
| When the farmer takes the eggs to
town on Saturday they are nisceI-
I Ianeous assortment. Some are strict
| y fresh, some week old, some per-
! maps two. Some are clean, some dirty
; some added by setting. other added
! by the sun. They are OF all sizes and
shades. The merchant looks them
OYER. He knows some are good, some
bad. some Indifferent; and he fixes
/ the price low enough to cover he ultf-
mate loss he knows will come He
! keeps them in the store with its null
/ tip!icity Of odoIs until he has enough
" them TO ship to the city, in the
meantime paying not cash but trade
, to the farmer for his eggs The mer-
OK in ,sf
sells them TO the cold storage people.
ard then buys them back after a while
! for this city trade, and sells them 10
the consumer.
/ The merchant in the country store
! must have his profit The exrressman
takes his share; the buyer in the city
( his; the storage man his: the retailer
! his. Hence It Is no wonder that in the
] summer time eggs are 70 cents in the
country and % 10 - cents n town;
while in the winter the best Of these
same eggs are sold to the consumer
, at 20 cents q dozen and even more.
This has been the history of the egg
trade in the past. and we suppose from
I time in7mernoriaI.
! AT the present the most wide-awake
! farmers are discovering a better way:
and their methods Will be followed
much more frequently in the future.
| What is this better way? First. keep
your hens in such a way that you don |
! have 20 hunt the eggs. but gather
them. Prescribe for the hen where
her nest shall be, and if you make it
| satisfactory, she will make il there.
Gather the eggs every day and put
them in cool, dry, we!I-vertilated
cellar You are then ready for coop
| Grafton selling eggs
Every creamery in the west should
arrange for the gathering of the farm
/ ers' eggs, should provide the farmer
7 with cartons holding a dozen eggs and
with q rubber stamp With which he
car mark the day Of laying and his
name or number on the carton. Then
arrange with your cream hauler to
take them in, and with the creamery
I TO snip them by express or otherwise
; 70 some reliable grocerynlan in the
/ city.
/ Theoretical. YOU say? There are
number Of creameries in Minnesota
and other states that are doing this
Very thing. The poultry associations
=! in Ireland are doing 1t. The world
has never had enough OF fresh eggs,
and perhaps never Will. There are
| -" " ~ Ill &C iIiS-it4AS AiA tiiC Ca G<AS
March, April and May. when the
creamery can not afford to pay the
! farmer more than ! or 2 or 8 cents ex-
/ ira: but during the rest Of the year it
can pay from to 10 cents extra.
/ The creameries that have adopted
! this plan pay the farmers these better
prices and at the same time secure
! for themselves magnificent profits.
/ One creamery in Minnesota which
| adopted this plan has paid the farm
ers the following prices for eggs gath
cred IN this way: January. 35S cents:
February, 25.e; March, 10: April 1872;
Nay, 1e.s; June. 20; July. 22.7: Au-
gust c45 September. 25.-: October.
| 81: November. 3.5; December. 40.
How does this compare. reader. with
the prices you have secured for your
eggs during the last year?
Then there is another advantage.
md no small one: Farmers have the
reputation among grocerymen OF doing
/ a lot Of very mean things, and 1t has
! grown more out Of the character OF
! the eggs sent 10 market than any 9TH
err one thing. We were standing III a
| grocery store one day when a>farmer
! drove up TO sell his eggs The mer-
| chant notioned him to go on; he d'd
! not want any We said 10 him Don
YOU really want those eggs? NOT
that mans I have had his eggs be-
fore l have had spoiled eggs. added
| eggs, dirty eggs. boiled eggs. can
get better quality Of eggs from the
storage man than / can from him. An
/ other farmer drove up, and the mer-
| chant was as keen after eggs as lot
! his dinner, because ne knew that these
eggs were strictly fresh, and he could
CELL them at a good profit to custom
ers who would buy no others.
Farm Efficiency.
! Efeiciancy is 2 big word of Latin de-