The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-15

| ingredient which would injure the most SEN
sitive eyes of an infant or the aged. Any
druggist can fill this prescription promptly.
Try it and know for once what real eye COM
1 tort is.
able, therefore, to retain the fertile eggs
for home use or dispose of them in some
other way than through the parcel post.
| This is also true of soled eggs. Eggs
should never be washed when intended
| for high-class trade, since the process
removes a natural mucilaginous coating
and opens the pores OF the shell.
After this thorough elimination of the
unfit, the eggs that remain should be
carefully packed in container OF cor
rugated pastcboard metal, wood, or 9th
er suitable material. The postofiice reg
ulations require this container to be 50
wrapped that nothing can escape from
the package and each egg, in addition to
being wrapped separately in excelsior,
cotton, or some such material. Any soft
paper serves the purpose quite well. As
for the container itself, there are many
kinds on the market and the department
of agriculture investigators have not at
| tempted to decide which is best. In
stead, they refer inquirer to the va
rious state experiment stations, which
have available informant on this ques
ton.
In packing eggs it rs well to sort them
as far as is practicable according to size
and color and to keep for home use those
which are irregular in shape, unusually
long or thin shelled. Containers that
have been badly stained by broken eggs
should be replaced by new ones and the
package wrapped as neatly as possible
In short every effort should be made to
deliver as attractive a package as pos
sible into the hands of the customers.
The extra expense viii be little and the
returns in increased trade great.
The larger the shipments that the
producer can arrange TO make, the cheap
err can he afford to sell his eggs. With
in the first and second zones of the par
eel post service, package costs five
cents for the first pound and only one
cent for each additional pound. 0rdinar-
lily eggs weigh about one and half
pounds dozen, which with the addi
tional weight of the wrapping and con-
tainer. would make a package OF doz-
pounds. The postage of this would be
seven cents. II another dozen eggs were
included in the package the postage
would not be more than nine cents, or
four and one-half instead of seven cents
a dozen eggs.
To the value of the eggs and the cost
of postage must be added the cost OF
the container and the wrapping. For
two dozen eggs this may be estimated
at eight cents. With postage at nine
cents, il would. therefore, cost IL cents
to market two dozen eggs, or eight and
one half cents dozen. BY shipping in
10 dozen lots, it is estimated that the
marketing cost can be reduced TO Al
cents a dozen.
Where the container can be used more
than once, this cost can of course be
somewhat reduced. Large-sized contain.
ers will stand from two to tour trips
smaller ones three TO five, so that is will
pay the producer to induce his customer
to return the containers periodically.
The postage required for this is of course
deducted from the bill for the next ship
ment.
Although il is obviously advantageous
both to the producer and consumer that
the eggs be shipped in large quantities
and consequently economically, it must
be remembered in taking orders that the
supply of eggs undergoes the greatest
fluctuations. In times of scarcity it is
not good policy for the producer to send
all his output to one customer neglect
ing his other friends, nor in times of
plenty can he expect to dispose of HIS
entire stock to his regular customers.
These points must be given due con-
sideration and the quantities that are
to be supplied at each season OF the gear
carefully stated in the contract. The
price, too, varies with the supply. A good
method of determining this is to take
as a basis the wholesale price of eggs
on the open market and add to this
certain number of cents dozen for the
new-laid parcel post eggs. Care should
be taken, however, 10 see that there is
no possibility of any misunderstanding
arising in regard to the basic price. To
obviate this, the quotations published in
a given newspaper or some other similar
authority may be accepted.
Eggs are scarcest and highest in the
fall. Chickens should, therefore, be
Matched early enough TO begin laying at
this season. Moreover little difficulty
will be experienced then in disposing
of the entire output and it will in con
sequence be Improbable TO divert any
of the supply to home purposes. This
difficulty can be overcome by preserving
eggs in the spring, when they are plen-
tiful and cheap. A solution of water
glass which can be obtained at drug
stores for rs cents Il gallon, should be
used for this purpose. each quart being
diluted with 10 quarts of water which
has been boiled and cooled. The eggs
should be packed in stone jars or crooks
and the solution poured over them, or
they may be carefully placed in the solu-
ton each day. Eggs kept in this way
are perfectly good but naturally they do