The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-09-17

ing points which are located conve
niently. Thence they go to the cen
trail station. They are good, clean eggs
too, for not only have they been
promptly gathered and kept in cool
place, but the nests themselves are
kept clean and fresh. AS the egg is
delivered it is carefully tested; no egg
which is bad either in appearance OF
in substance, passes muster Every
egg bears stamp indicating who de-
livered the egg to the association. The
farmer who sends in a bad egg is
fined. These 10000 farmers through
their manager whom they hired and
who is highly skilled man. ship most
of these eggs directly to the retail
dealers in England. The manager, as
he himself told us, absolutely refuses
to sell through the London commits
sion men because they demand per
centage which cuts down the profit OF
the farmer who produces the eggs
and raises the price to the city man
who eats them. At the moment OF
shipping he knows just where there
is demand for eggs and consequently
Is sure that the eggs will be promptly
accepted and promptly resold. So eff
cient is this process that within six
days after the egg is laid by the her
1t may be on the table of the consumer
in distant England. During every
minute of that six days the egg has
been so we'll cared for that it has had
no chance to deteriorate in quality in
! the slightest degree. Not only does
the farmer receive good price for
this egg but, because the process OF
distribution is so efficient and mex
pensive, the final retail price is rea,
sonable and the consumer profits as
much as the producer The stamp OF
Danish cooperative association on
an egg is a guarantee Of quality.
Cooperative Egg Export.
Some of the smaller Danish socie
ties had in the beginning little diff
Guilty in standardizing their product
and in establishing stable prices. To
assist in accomplishing these two OBJ
jects the Danish Cooperative Egg Elk
port society was organized in 1895.
The purpose of this organization is to
standardize the output and bring about
greater stability in prices. The CEN
trail society is made up Of large num-
Der Of local associations each of which
contains at least ten members.
Each producer must stamp the eggs
with his own number and that of the
group to which he belongs so that it is
possible to ascertain exactly who sup
piled each egg. The farmer who sends
in a bad egg is fined The eggs are
then sent to packing centers, whence
they are shipped according to fixed
price determined a week in advance
by the managing committee.
Although not twenty years old the
Danish Egg Export society consists of
$50 groups and did business, in 1908,
of more than s6,600,O00. Danish eggs
bring fancy prices because they are
always fresh, we'll sorted, well packed,
and guaranteed.
Dutch Eggs.
The organization of egg societies
has also been taken up by the Dutch
farmers, the system adopted being
~ dCtiCdliy lie odlnC do lAdt 0hiSh
prevails in Denmark.
Local societies are formed and affil-
lated to a Central Provincial fedora
ton, which is responsible for grading. |
testing, packing. and shipping. The
eggs are collected by the local socie-
ties and forwarded regularly to the
Central Depot. Every member of a
io ;cbo With
Der, which must be stamped on the
eggs before delivery. The eggs are
carefully tested, and a member supply
ing stale eggs is subject to a penalty
of one dollar for every egg rejected.
The Association of Cooperative
Creameries in Limburg was the first
to take up the cooperative export of
eggs. The province of Friesland fol-
lowed. There is a poultry association
which works over the whole of Hol-
land. and has eleven provincial
branches, but this association does not
trade, having been established to pro-
tect the interests and develop the In,
dustry of poultry farming generally
The Friesland Export Federation was
eS ldDllSUeu III 1910, anu the total value
Of the shipments in 1909 was about
100000.
How Irish Er~s Are Sold.
A recent activity of the Irish Agri-
cultural Organization society has been
he establishment Of poultry products
associations, patterned entirely after
he Danish system already described.
This is, of course, about the simplest :
Ind easiest form of cooperative en-
erprise to establish, as the outlay of
invested capital is small, the returns ,
prompt and continuous and the prod ,
let, at least the eggs, readily stand
lrdized. The eggs, in fact, are not only !,
tamped. sorted and packed as by the :
Danes, but the producers are paid for !,
hem almost entirely by weight instead !,
+ by number. These cooperative egg :
ompanies have succeeded beyond ex-
ectation and the value of the egg ex-
orts handled comparatively is about
quail to the dairy exports, although :,
he poultry produce is Of much less .
alue than dairy produce. !