The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-08-06
GIVE WARNING ABOUT EGGS.
state Food Department Gives Some
Good Advice to Housewives.

Austin Tex. Aug. 6.-The State
Food and Drugs Department issued
for the benefit of housewives, the
following admonitory suggestions
on the nature. conditions, use and
ablhef of eggs IN the heated term,
following its recent extensive III
problem:
| 1t is a Well-knoN.n fact that
| housewives have much difficulty
in getting fresh eggs during the
summer months in this climate.
summer eggs are poor i'll quality
even when fresh. They deterior-
ate rapidly Il course during the
| hot months before they reach the
retail groceryman. The retail gro
ceryman viii not sell good fresh
| eggs as long as the cheap summer
eggs are sold by his competitors.
| There are plenty oil first-class fresh
eggs in all our cities where cold
| storage houses are operated These
eggs are not sold III tie summer
| time, because the housewife does
not demand good. fresh egg from
| her groceryman. She may think
| she does, but she does not. II the
common summer egg is selling at
> cents a dozen, she viii net buy
the cold storage egg At ., cents
a dozen, although the cold storage
| is d No. / fresh egg flavor which
| such eggs have in the late fall
months after the storage period of
seven or eight months The house
| wife continues to buy the cheap
summer egg, Notwithstanding The
fact that ii large per cent OF them
ere rotten and cannot be used at
all. and still larger per cent Of
them arc partially tIocom posed, and
what are known Ill The egg par
| lance as blood ringers, rots aud
/ spots, that is, termination has be-
gun in some Of them AM proceed
ed for several daAs otlIcr have
mold growfhs on them, which may
be mistaken for the gefmmal al
| bumcn The housewife seems 10
be SO prcjudiced against the cold
storage egg, and SO unused = get
| ting it in summer time tprobably
,.1,n
that she most likely will buy the
partially decomposed summer eggs
if she We're offered them at the
same price,
The housewife should remember
that an egg is a perishable food
product just as fresh meat Is. She
would not buy steak enough to last
| two days, whereas, she frequently
| buys eggs cneugh for two or three
days without ever keeping them
III a refrigerator
Even the No. fresh refrigcra-
| tor egg may go to the aaG=in the
summer time Somewhere between
| the cold storage room and the con
sumner. | have seen retail grocer.
| keep Il ease Of cold storage eggs
| for three days in Il hot store house
| in the early fall months Such
eggs Of course viii not be fit 10
eat when the consumer gets them.
| The housewife straightaway lays
| the blame on the cold storage bus
| mess From an economic as we'll
as a public health standpoint. the
| cold storage business is most i'm
| poltant business, particularly in a
| hot climate The sins Of the cold
storage are not half SO many, nor
so objectionable as those OF our
groccryman who does not even keep
refrigerator in their hot houses.
| As for myself | viii not trade with
any groceryman who does not keep
| a refrigerator.
If the house wife really wants
| fresh eggs, and will demand them,
| the rotten summer eggs will soon
go begging for market, and then
| the egg farmer will pay more at
tention to the preservation of his
eggs. all OF which will be conduc-
i've to the solution Of the egg prob
lem. The strange thing l.. that cv-
cry one of our large towns has
| trainloads of No. strictly fresh
these half rotten eggs.