The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-03-06


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 Ii!ze to feel sure that
any egg in your basket could be
dropped into kettle OF hot water
with some certainty that 1t would
come out palatabIe egg and not q
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 It If 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, a 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-
tion, inspection, and branding, which
render every cooperative egg strict
ly fresh egg The claim Is, too, that
In addition to giving you strictly
! fresh" eggs. cooperation will give
them to you at cost no greater
than the present cost OF ordinary
eggs.
From the Farmers Standpoint
II you look at 1t from the stand
point OF the farmer who has the fresh
eggs in his nest. he ought to be
anxious to know how he can hurry
these eggs to market before they get
spoiled and are worthless. He Is also
interested in getting market that
supplies steady all-the-yeararound
demand for eggs for, unfortunately
hens have habit OF laying the most
eggs when the price is lowest. A
farmer must have market when this
| time comes.
And SO little party of us Ameri
cans have come over here to, see II
cooperation is anything that can be
used in America TO help the American
farmer and the American consumer
We are also going to Denmark, Bel
] GUM and Germany to see II co-opera
| tion in those countries is doing what
Is claimed for IL: to see IL co-opefa
ton can be adopted and adapted t
/ American needs.
Cooperation Market for Eggs.
The Irish cooperation egg market
ing association is primarily for tht
purpose of securing a good profitable
market for eggs. The market mus
be reached promptly. the eggs mus
not pass through too many hands
They must not be shipped into a dis
tant city. then half way back across
the country as is done with som,
farm products in America
| BY the time eggs that start a
strictly fresh, have gone on q journe,
like this and arrive at their final des
tination they are no longer 'strictl.
fresh"-they are simply eggs"
The cooperative egg marketing as
sociation here In Ireland soon foun
out that to successfully market thei
members eggs they must find maj
ket not too distant, they must shil
BY the most speedy and direct route
and they must SO care for the egg
during the shipment as to prevent tn
deterioration that comes within eve
few days under unfavorable cond
tlona. In short, there Is double reaso
for direct marketing Of eggs: the frs
reason il that any roundabout. ind
rect marketing costs the consume
money and IL an element In fixing th
high cost OF living; the second reaso
il that this long drawn-ont process
o. marketing renders this parfieula
product unmarketable when the ma
ket is finally reached. Thus co-operl
tive egg associations are doabiy d
sfsa5le
Quality In Eggs,
AFTER the direct marketing r0ni
was established cooperative egg q
s@esztAoas stali f1sna that eggs @hie
NsFs ass strictly fresh when deli
ssss 10 ne association cSsid rot 1
SOD - strictly ffess no natter ho
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