Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-07-13

There Is not an item In the list
that may not be largely controlled By
the producer. Dirties are the result
Of slack methods and dirty yards and
nests. Breakage comes from careless
packing, Chick development and rots
come from failing to remove the male
bird after the breeding. season.
coupled with the failure to keep the
eggs In a temperature of less than
65 degrees F. Shrunken eggs result
from failure to market the eggs often
and the temptation to hold for a rise
in price. Moldy eggs are caused by
keeping the eggs in a moist place.
Eggs, like milk, will absorb odors and
bad flavor results.
What is needed Is education. 1t
takes familiarity with proper methods
OF production. handling and market
ing to place perfect egg ON the table
of the consumer. Where can the gen.
eral farmer get that information now?
Where could he get It better than at a
properly conducted egg show!
Poor Eggs Bring Poor Prices and In
lure the Trade.
When an egg of poor quality reach
es the table of the consumer 1t natur-
ally creates feeling Of extreme dis
gust. Nothing is more appetizing than
a we'll prepared egg OF the best quail
ty. Nothing is more exasperating
than a poor egg. It spells the whole
meal. Now. toward whom Is disgust
and evaporation aimed? II 1t is in
a hotel. the management Is more or
less silently cussed. II It is at home
the cook comes in for her share. and
possibly there are few mutterings
about cold storage. But that is not all.
The person who gets a taste OF poor
egg does not care to have eggs for
breakfast again until he has had time
to forget his disappointment In the
meantime the egg trade suffers. There
is less demand for eggs and there Is a
corresponding tendency to low prices.
The orange growers Of California
recognized this fact when they In
vited 40 representative growers from
Florida to come to California and
study proper marketing methods.
They paid the travelling expenses of
these 40 growers because they said
tina. every time any one ate a poor
orange from Florida they didn't want
any oranges for while. An orange
was an orange to them. whether 1t
came from Florida or California. and
the orange trade as a whole was In
jured by Just SO much.
Consumers Need Education.
People Of wealth. east and west. are
in the habit of buying whatever suits
their fancy regardless OF cost In the
east premiums above the highest mar
ket price are paid for eggs that be-
sides being of the best quality are
large, uniform In size, even In color
and perfectly clean. In New York
premium is paid for white eggs. One
of the reasons given Is that the shells
are not so tough and the eggs are
more conveniently handled. In Bos-
ton the brown egg is preferred and
paid for. They say that a brown egg
has richer flavor. San Francisco
also prefers a brown egg. The we'll
TODD people of Iowa take any kind OF
an egg that Is showed at them II It
tastes all right. This is not because
they have never been shown. Their
good taste is as keen ~ any New
Workers. When once they see how
much more attractive q breakfast
table looks when the eggs are all the
same size. type and color they are go
ing to be as keen as any one for eggs
that are really tip top. Where can
they be shown more conclusively than
at an egg show?
Bring Producer and Consumer To-
gether.
There ID necessity Of education on
both sides. The farmer fails to pro-
duce eggs of first quality for two rear
sons. In the first place he doesn't
know how. But more important still
he thinks there is no demand for a
better product, The consumer, on the
other hand, takes the eggs that are
given him because he In turn doesn't
know any better. He isn't aware that
there Is anything better to be had
There 10 the greatest need Of the
producer and consumer getting ac-