The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-07-11
EGGS AND POULTRY FARMING.

(Herman ]. Seiferth, in Times Picayune)
Louisiana does not ship enough eggs
to supply the city of New Orleans for a
single month. AS for the summer,
Louisiana suffers still more The re-
turns in the past, during those months,
have been so meager that the producer
has virtually quit bothering with ship.
ments. Learning few truths about
the business would net him a neat
penny.
The interior farmer who does ship in
the warm months, by overlooking the
instructions freely given him, gets
only ten or eleven cents dozen. Cases
Iof Western eggs alongside of his, in
the same store, bring twenty cents a
dozen. The difference, although in the
eggs, is really in the farmer. The
Western man did not always know as
much as he does to-day The United
States government, after an investi-
cation only few years ago, calculated
that the country wasted $15,000,000 of
eggs each summer, and that SO much
food and wealth were worth conserv-
ing. So it began sending experts
around to educate the farmers. The
sections that have learned are reaping
the reward. Louisiana has not yet
joined the reapers, and the govern
ment men have not yet been around
in this territory. There has been no
call for them, so they probably decid-
ed that there was no need for their
presence.
The common sense summer way for
the individual is very simple. 1t is
the way the government recommends.
Gather eggs twice day, and after
gathering have them kept in cool
spot. Be sure to remove all cracked
eggs, using them at home. Have the
eggs brought to town daily, if possible,
but by all means three times a week.
See that eggs are not exposed to the
heat while being conveyed to the mar
ket in wagons. A little trouble is in
yolved, it is true, but this sort of
trouble pays.
When it comes to shipping on a
wholesale scale there is more trouble
and larger expense, but it pays still
better, and there is where the CO.
operative idea comes in. The new
selling associations may make the
marketing of this by-product special
feature and provide the facilities. The
industry may then assume profitable
importance as far as Louisiana is con-
cerned.
In Missouri, Nebraska and other
states where the business has been
perfected and the output is large, the
system is to precool the product for
forty-five minutes after the stock is
gathered in temperature of As de-
grees. The eggs are then candled,
graded and packed. They are then
chilled to IS or SO degrees, and are
ready to load, 400 cases to the car.
Refrigerator cars are used, and they
are safely sent to points even five days
or more away They will keep even a
month or six weeks, despite the warm
est weather, but if they are once al
lowed to become heated not all the ice
in the world will be able to arrest de-
terioration and decomposition
Markets Manifold.
That the modern way is efficient,
and that New Orleans knows it as we'll
as any market in the country, is evi.
denced by the fact that L. Frank & Co.,
one of the progressive local firms, sup.
plies the Panama Canal forces with
eggs The goods are brought here as
described, are rushed right into cold
storage, and whenever a United Fruit
Company's ship is ready to sail the
eggs are put into it's refrigerators just
before sailing. At Colon they are i'm
mediately unloaded and stood in the
immense commissary cold storage
plant, and the workers enjoy better
eggs than are found on many a break
| fast table in the city.
In the West, June 6 is Rooster Day
when the chandeliers are abolished
from the barnyards, the slogan beine
Swat the rooster" The featheret
sultaIs are considered rather an i'm
pediment and a superiority where thu
summer purpose is to secure eggs fol
market. His benefit is to add to thu
eggs fertility, and fertile eggs do no
keep as well in warm weather. In thu
states where the business has been de
veloped, purchases are made "free O
losses" which means that all the egg
must be fresh or no sale. That forces