Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-16

c. II. Yearwood, Americas, Ga:
Will you please tell me what you
consider a good yearly average for
eggs, from a thousand limit, deliver
ed daily, say to a hotel or commits
sion merchant?
ANSWER.
fair average price for fresh eggs
the year around, by contract and a
stipulated amount every day or week,
would be 40 cents per dozen. Eggs
bought at this price, that you know
are clean and fresh, are far cheap
er than by taking chances and buy
ing eggs OF the market at 20 cents
part OF the season and 80 cents the
remainder of the year, but with no
guarantee or certainty Of what you
are getting. Forty cents a dozen is
only a fair price to the producer, and
certainly is a cheap price for the
consumer, and the consumer would
really have the better end of It If
you made a contract at this figure.
The one great trouble or drawback
in making a contract of this kind
is that it is such a hard matter to
produce a stipulated amount of eggs
during the summer, fall and winter
months. One mistake that a great
tract of this kind is in figuring cor
rectly and knowing just how many
eggs they can supply during the
months that fresh eggs are needed
most and hardest to get So many
men have an idea that they can sup
ply a given amount of eggs during
the entire year. This is hard prop
osition to do, or to figure on, UNI
less a person prepares himself the
year or so ahead to do this. it is al
most impossible to secure eggs to
keep up a contract with during the
fall and winter. Therefore, a man
who makes a contract to receive the
eggs Is often disappointed and will
usually be deprived of the eggs when
they aDe highest and be compelled
to take them when they are at the
lowest prices. No fair-minded man
will close a contract for another sea-
son with a party after going through
with such conditions, and will for
ever afterward fight shy of making
a contract unless they are certain
with whom they are making the con-
tract One should be very careful
about going into an agreement of
this kind unless they know pretty
sure that these contracts can be
bul Nntn OilC lldS ScIAo-
factory dealings with both sides of
the contract of this kind. they are
usually only too glad to renew it, and
there is never any trouble afterward
as both parties are usually satisfied
and are getting the worth of their
money for the amount they buy, and
the man who furnishes them is usu-
ally getting a fair per cent of profit
or has something that he can abso-
lutely base his expenses and income
upon. If any hotel can sign up a
contract and have it fulfilled at 40
cents a dozen the year around for
strictly fresh eggs, they are abso-
lutely safe and can easily afford to
pay such, especially for the next 10
months to come, because If there is
any one thing that hotels or restau-
rants have trouble about, it is Sc
curing plenty of fresh, good eggs,
especially from the first of July to
the first of March. They are cheap at
most any price then within reason
for the satisfaction of knowing that
you can serve one of the patrons a
soft boiled or poached egg that you
know is fresh is a consolation alone
worth more than dollars and cents
to any hotel proprietor.