Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-07-10

! another dozen eggs were included IN
the package the postage would not pe
more than 9 cents. or Az instead OF
cents dozen eggs.
To the value of the eggs and the
cost OF postage must be added the
cost OF the container and the wrap
ping. For two dozen eggs this may
be estimated at 8 cents. With postage
| at 8 cents, 1t would, therefore, cost II
cents to market two dozen eggs. or
81 cents dozen. BY shipping In 10
dozen lots. It ia estimated that the
marketing cost can be reduced to ~
cents dozen. &w
Where the container can be used
more than once, this cost can OF
course be somewhat reduced. Large
sized containers will stand from two
to four trips, smaller ones three to
FIVE, SO that It will pay the producer
to induce his customer to return the
containers periodically. The postage
required for this is OF course deducted
from the bill for the next shipment.
Although 1t is obviously advanta-
geous both to the producer and con-
sumer that the eggs be shipped IN
large quantities and consequently eco
nomically, 1t must be remembered IN
taking orders that the supply Of eggs
undergoes the greatest fluctuations. IN
times OF scarcity 1t is not good policy
for the producer to send all his output
to one customer, neglecting his other
friends, nor In times of plenty can ne
expect to dispose Of his entire STOCK
to his regular customers. These points
must be given due consideration and
the quantities that are to be supplied
at each season Of the year carefully
stated in the contract. The price, too,
varies with the supply. One good
method of determining this is to take
as basis the wholesale price OF eggs
on the open market and add to this
a certain number OF cents dozen for
the new-laid parcel post eggs. care
should be taken, however, to see that
there is no possibility of any misun-
derstanding arising in regard to the
basic price. To obviate this, the quo
tations published in given newspaper
or some other similar authority may
be accepted.
Eggs are scarcest and highest in the
fall Chickens should, therefore, be,
Matched early enough to begin laying
at this season. Moreover little dill
Guilty will be experienced then in dis
posing of the entire output and 1t Will
in consequence be Improbable to d.
vert any of the supply to home pur-
poses. This difficulty can be overcome
by preserving eggs in the spring, when
they are plentiful and cheap. A solu-
ton of water glass, which can be OBJ
tanned at drug stores for Is cents a
gallon, should be used for this pur-
pose, each quart being diluted with 10
quarts Of water which has been boiled
and cooled. The eggs should be packed
In stone jars or crooks and the solu'
ton poured over them, or they may be
carefully placed in the solution each
day. Eggs kept in this way are per-
fectly good, but naturally they do not
command the prices of those newly
laid. The shells sometimes break IN
boiling, but this may be avoided By
puncturing the end with a pin just be-
| fore they are dropped into the water.
With the home demands for domes-
| tic foodstuffs almost equaling produc-
-" ton the United
BiQ Demand for States is not only
Domestic Foods. reducing e. It's :. e e.
creasins its imports Of certain food
stuffs. This is one Of the striking
features Of a review by the depart.
ment of commerce Of the foreign trade
during the first six months under the
new tariff
Figures show that imports Of food
stuffs in their natural condition In.
| cluded food animals, increased from
$117,194,237, in the half year ended
with March, 1913, to $143,421.536 dur
ing the corresponding period this
year, and that imports of foodstuffs,
partly or wholly prepared for use IN
the same period, increased from $685.
744,241 to $10O,967,37S. The increase
in importations Of all food products In
the period named Appropriated more
than thirty million dollars, or an aver
age of $5,OO0,OO0 a month.
Figures Of exports are even more
striking. or crude foodstuffs exports
fell of more than fifty per cent, while
prepared foodstuffs also declined. Elk.
ports of crude foodstuffs fell from
| $115,850,453 in the six months period
of 1913 to $55,4S3,7S7 in the CORE
spending period this year, and manu-.
featured products from $3.50, 007.422 to
2,022.620.
Food articles showing largest in.
creases in importations were beef.
cattle, corn, wheat, rice, macaroni,
fruits, molasses and edible oils.
In a little room Of the Smithsonian
Institution woman is demonstrating
the tattered rem.
Historical Flag nants of the iden
Being Restored. tical flag whose
broad stripes and
! bright stars" inspired Francis Scott
Key during the bombardment of Fort
McHenry, near Baltimore, on the
! morning of Sept. IA, 1914. No new
fabric will be used: 1t will be the
same texture woven into It by the wo
men of Baltimore at the outbreak Of
the second war with England.
This flag has been an exhibit Of the
National Museum and the smithson.
ian Institute since 1907. It becane
the property of the museum only