The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-08-29
MILLIONS LOST
BY Eco BREAKACE
Uncle Sam Seeks Safest Man.
ner Of Packing.
SITUATION GROWS ACUTE,

Loss to Producers and Consumers So
Large That Government Is Conduct
ing Extensive Experiments to Mini
mize It-RaiIroads Begin to Regard
Carrying Eggs as Improbable.
10 reduce the enormous breakawe of
r@-S in transit. which yearly causes Il
loss ot millions of dollars to producers
4 and raises I re price Of eggs for con-
slllner>, Che United States department
of agriculture, through its bureau of
chemistry. is conducting extensive eX-
pcrimtntS To determine the safest man
ncr %! parlin. eggs for long and short
shipment hy vail.
Ar, orliug To an article in the Year
Book Reprint No. %. which deals
with THE Effect of Present Methods
! of Handling Eggs ON the industry and
Product. the waste from the brcakage
of eggs in New York city alone in 1900
was over l"1,SOl.7 GS eggs or over II.
looMH dozen of eggs out of II total
consumption IN 1900 of III .,;S.. 600 duy-
en- of eggs In other words. about q
per cent of all eggs received In New
York were cracked. and of these u
large number were unfit for food use,
Eggs Come Long Distances.
The egg supply of large cities. and
particularly New York. has to come
from II long distance. because. accord
ing to the thirteenth census the mid
die Atlantic states in 1909 sold only
about llu,M".'M0 dozen eggs. or not
enough to supply Now York alone il
every egg had hren sent TO that point,
| For the eastern coast cities the dis
tant corn districts are practically the
sole source of supply. because the lit
tie gray hen does no, have to scratch
SO hard for living In the cornicld as
she does where grain Is scarce, Tn
crraSing consumption OF eggs adds to
the distance from which eggs must
come and n,nt"s the safe shipment of
this vannbj" food product more and
morc essential
Preventing Egg Breakaae.
The hurr'u of chemistry regards the
inNpetigatiu,, "f the methods OF pre-
ventin. egg lrcnkngc rs particularly
important because the many millions
of dozens al eggs now broken i'm ship
ment naturally tend to keep the price
of this valuable food higher than n
there were no hrraknge or the break
age were m ,terinly reduced.
The huro M. through the food re
search laboratory, Is now engaged in
shipping eggs handled IN different
ways on lpug Journeys to different
points in IN" United States and is
carefully netting their condition on re
cript ut their destination
Shippers. railroad men and commits.
sion men are cooperating heartily
with the Investigators Of The govern,
mcnt through their joint conference
committee composed of representatives
from the National Butter, Egg and
Poultry association. the Traffic Man
ayers Association of Chicago and the
United States department of ngrirui-
turc.
Situation Growing Acute.
\ The situation is CROWN. very acute,
because the railroads are claiming that
! their damage losses are such US to
make the carrying of eggs IN unprof
/ liable conn 1ercinl proposition. The
shippers ard cnnsigncps have large
/ sums of money tied mp In claims and
/ litigation with the roads
/ If the department of agriculture sue
/ cechS as 1. hopes to do in dcvising
4 II successful: method Of shipping eggs
II will ntrbuc Importantly TO the
poultry ind ,stry. In which the little
gray hen produces food worth half =
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