The Raymer enterprise., 1914-02-26

Foynes. County Limerick, Ireland
As a housewife what would you think
of plan of handling eggs which
would make eggs boiled with the shell
on always available for the table?
How would you like to feel sure that
any egg in your basket could be
dropped into kettle OF hot water
with some certainty that it would
come out a palatable egg and not a
nondescript animal product represent.
ing the period of transition from egg
to chicken?
When you buy your eggs at the
grocer how would you like ii il you
could be as sure that they were fresh
and palatable as you would be II your
own hens had laid them yesterday
and you yourself had taken them from
the nest and placed them in the
kitchen?
Now If the tales that they are tell
Ing here in Ireland and Denmark and
elsewhere abroad are true, proper
organization of the egg producing in
dustry would give to eggs a definite
uniform quality. Here uncertainty as
to quality has been eliminated, and
cooperation has brought standariza.
ton. inspection. and branding. which
render every cooperative egg a strict
ly fresh egg. The claim is, too. that
in addition to giving you strictly
fresh eggs. cooperation will give
them to you at a cost no greater
than the present cost OF ordinary
eggs.
From the Farmers Standpoint.
II you look at it from the stand
point Of the farmer who has the fresh
eggs in his nest. he ought to be
anxious 10 know how he can hurry
these eggs to market before they get
spoiled and are worthless. He is also
interested in getting a market that
supplies a steady allthe.year.around
demand for eggs for, unfortunately.
hens have habit OF laying the most
eggs when the price is lowest. 4
farmer must have a market when this
time comes.
And so Il little party of us Ameri-
cans have come over here to see If
cooperation is anything that can be
used in America to help the American
farmer and the American consumer,
We are also going 10 Denmark. Bel
gium and Germany to see If co-opera-
tion in those countries is doing what
is claimed for IT. to see II co-opera-
tion can be adopted and adapted to
American needs.
Cooperation Market for Ea1s.
The Irish cooperation egg market
ing association is primarily for the
purpose of securing a good profitable
market for eggs. The market must
be reached promptly. the eggs must
not pass through too many hands.
They must not be shipped into dis
tant city, then half way back across
the country as Is done with some
farm products In America.
by the time eggs that start as
strictly fresh, have gone on a journey
like this and arrive at their final des-
tihation they are no longer strictly
iresh'-thcy are simply eggs"
The cooperative egg marketing as.
sociation here In Ireland soon found
out that to successfully market their
members eggs they must find mar.
ket not too distant, they must ship
by the most speedy and direct route,
and they must so care for the eggs
during the shipment as to prevent tho
deterioration that comes within even
a few days under unfayorabe condi.
tions. In short, there is double reason
for direct marketing OF eggs: the first
reason is that any roundabout. indl.
rect marketing costs the consumer
money and is an element in fixing the
high cost Of living; the second reason
Is that this long drawn-out process
VI Hldfhetlng renders this particular
product unmarketable when the mar.
ket is finally reached. Thus co-opera-
tive egg associations are doubly de-
sirable.
Quality In Eggs.
After the direct marketing route
was established cooperative egg as
soeiallons still found that eggs which
were not strictly fresh when deliy-
cred to the association could not be
sold as strictly fresh. no matter how
rapidly and directly they were rushed
10 market. The managers were COM
PEELED to adopt very harsh measures
IN testing eggs delivered to them.