Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-03-06
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Foynes. County Limerick Ireland
As housewife what would you think
OF a plan OF handling eggs which
would make eggs boiled with the she'll
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 II 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 Il If you
could be as sure that they were fresh
and palataole 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 II 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 definite
uniform quality. Here uncertainty as
to quality has been eliminated. and
cooperation has brought standards
ton. 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 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 bt
anxious to know how he can hurry
these eggs to market before they gel
spoiled and are worthless. lie IL nfst
interested In getting a market tina
supplies a steady ail-theyeararount
demand for eggs for. unfortunately
hens have a habit of laying the mos
eggs when the price Ia lowest 4
| farmer must have market when thii
time comes.
And so a little party of us Ameri
cans have come over here to see /
cooperation Ii anything that can b.
used IN America to help the American
farmer and the American consumer
We are also going TO Denmark. Bel
gium and Germany to see If coopera
lion In those countries Is doing VIVA
Is claimed for II; TO see II co-opera
tion can be adopted and adapted 4
American needs.
Cooperation Market for Eggs.
The Irish cooperation egg market
ing association Is primarily for tn
purpose of securing a good profitabl
market for eggs The market mus
be reached promptly. the eggs mus
not pass through too many hands
They must not be shipped Into q dis
tant city. then half way back aeroa
/ the country as Ia done with SOM
farm products In America
BY the time eggs that start a
strictly fresh have gone on n inurne
like this and arrive a. their final de-
tination they are no longer .atrletl
fresh are simply eggs"
The cooperative egg marketing If
ISOLATION here In Ireland soon fonn
out that 10 successfully market thei
members eggs they must find MAJ
ket not too distant, they must shl
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.
d few days under unfayorable cord
tons In short. there Ii double reaso
for direct marketing Of eggs. the frs
reason Ii that any roundabout. Ind
rect marketing costs the consume
money AMI Ii an element In fixing th
high cost Of living. the second reaso
Is that this long drawn-out process
1f marketing renders this parficulA
product unmarketable when the ma
ket is finally reached Thus co-operl
tive egg associations are doubly d.
siFable.
Quality In Eggs.
After the direct marketing rout
Yas established cooperative egg a
soeiations stffi faand that eggs whie
we're not strictly fresh when deli
cred to the association could not b
odd a. strictly fresh no matter he
rapidly and directly they we're ruahe
to market The managers we're con
peeled to adopt very harsh measure
In testing eggs delivered 70 then
The eggs must not only be fresi
but they must look fresh. IN som
cities, moreover. the people war
a.