Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-20
Egg Corners Are to Be
Crushed By Uncle Sans
Parcels Post, Weapon
President Wilson's New Chief of Markets Declares Stamp
Can Solve Not Only High Cost Of Eggs, But Of All
Other Farm Products Carrier All That is Needed

Washington, d. c., Dec. 18,-"The
egg producer and the egg-consumer
can be brought together-and egg
corners abolished forever. The high
cost or eggs-and the cost of many
other farm products, too-can be low
cred by cooperation between the far
ner and the egg user in the city or
town. The parcel post is the solu-
| toni"
! That is the way Charles ]. Brand,
agricultural department expert on
marketing, and chief of President WI
sons newly-created division of Mar
kets,' sizes up the egg situation.
"The division of markets, in co-op-
Grafton with the bureau of animal in
dustry and the postoffice department.,
has been for more than month quiet
ly testing out the possibilities of the
parcel post in shipping eggs from
the country to the town. 1t can be
done, and it can be done successfully
and at low cost" declared Bland. "The
agricultural department poultry farm
at Beltsville, Md, has been selling
eggs produced there in the course o.
poultry experiments to the employees
of the department at market prices.
We have in the past month been using
these eggs simply to test the POSSIBLE
tiles of more than a hundred types q
egg containers by sending them
through the parcel post.
First Tests Satisfactory.
concluded, but at least six of the con-
tainers are standing mail trips salts
! factorily. Out of the first twenty-five
dozen that we shipped" continued Mr.
Brand, there were only five broken
eggs and four were in one particular
dozen; so that there were twenty-foul
dozen eggs shipped with only one
broken"
How about the expense for con-
tainers?" was asked.
"It is not at all necessary that the
containers be expensive" he replied
The less expensive types in several
cases are proving to be as satisfae-
| tory as the others. But it is quite
possible to use a container that is ex-
pensive without hurting the efficiency
of the service.
"Gift Package" Type The Best.
For instance, a number of the con
tainers can be kept until they reach
the parcel post limit-twenty pounds
and then returned to the farmer by
parcel post But no doubt the best
type will be found to be the gift
package that can be thrown away af-
ter being once used"
IF the public taking much interest
in these experimental
He swung around in his chair and
pointed to three wire baskets filled
with letters.
1--WE are simply being deluged with
correspondence from all over the
country from people who want to
know how best to get in touch with
the producing farmer and buy their
eggs-and other farm produce-fresh
and cheaply AS a matter Of fact, VIC
have to spend SO much time. answer
ing letters that it is retarding us IN
writing the bulletin which we expect
to issue some time within the course
of the next month and which will give
full Information on the results Of our
experiment.
But there is one thing that ought
to be made clear, and that is that con.
sumers ought to go to some trouble to
get into personal touch with farmers
in order that both may deal satisfac-
torily. 1t is worth while.