Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-01

carton. That was where the railway got it's advantage out of the team play. At the same time the hungry traveller, calling for his morning eggs and ba- con as his train speeded across the pralrleS, was sure to get just as good and fresh service as he could have obtained from his own hennery at
 home That's where his share of the advantage came in.
 Well, the plan worked so we'll that there soon began to be an oversupply
 or eggs of first quality. Farmers found it so profitable to take the extra trou- ble for the. extra price, that more
 wanted to supply the railway people. Thereupon the farm adviser in Johnson county. Mo. seized his oppor-
 tunity. He buzzed around among
 the retail grocers and stirred them up little. Then he took to the farms
 and talked to the farmers who wanted
 to sell extra eggs to the railway but couldn't because the railway already
 had all it could use.
 The result was new development Of the team play idea You See,=s the
 grocers didn't want to handle poor eggs any more than others wanted to have them. They'd rather have bang up good ones and pay a little more. But they had to take such as were
 offered and there were so many bad ones among their supply that they couldn't afford to pay full prices. It's
 perfectly evident that. if a grocer has
 to take all sorts of gathered eggs, which average dozen bad ones out of every ten dozen he buys, he can't af- ! ford to pay as much as if he had guarantee beforehand that every egg was sweet and fresh. The grocers Jumped at the chance to get as good eggs as the railway was getting, at the same price.
 So Farm Advisor Long cribbed the railways rules right off his own pla- cards, had rubber stamp made bear ing the label Farm Bureau Eggs ABC'', which was leased for fifteen cents to each farmer who would agree to abide by the rules, and all the farmer had to do was to follow the rules, seal the cartons and stamp them
 and deliver them right to his own grocer, just as he used to, for three cents dozen above the ruling market price for common gathered eggs. Or. If he preferred, he might ship the eggs in the cartons by parcels post to any individual customer who wanted to make special arrangement with him. When this is done the customer sends his order with payment accoIn- panying, so that the farmer stands no risk Of loss from bad debts.
 In time. it is proposed to allow re- spons1bie customers to have monthly NSSOhAto' cliid dAtcddS lue Iu6d IS 68- tending to take in dressed poultry. | Vegetables in hampers, butter and other farm products.
 As. a result of this simple adoption of team play, first by a railway com pany and then by the groeers and con- sumers and farmers, it has become possible for anybody in that Missouri county or anybody travelling across it to get A No. One fresh eggs at a prize no greater than he had hitherto been compelled to pay for chance-y things which might be sweet and might smell to heaven. It has also become possi- ble for every farmer who will take the trouble to market good eggs to get about twenty-five per cent advance on the prices heretofore received. The saving, all round, is due just to the elimination of the bad egg and the fear of the bad egg.
 Down in Washington, D. C., the post master has developed another phase of this team play. He has published a i list of the farmers and truckers living within practical distance of the city with table of what products he is able to supply opposite the name of | each. The tables, made up for the l latitude of Maryland and Virginia in l clude such things as oysters and clans, home made bread and candy, lemon 1 peel, roses and rose-ba Old Virginia corn-meal, eggs, home made jams and jellies and preserves, nuts, even un- 1 fermented grape juice, vegetables of | all sorts. The idea is. to encoura ge seller and buyer to get together: in | cidentally to make more business for 1 the parcels post. the plan being due to | a suggestion of Postmaster General 1 Burleson. who wanted to develop that 1 branch of his service to it's fullest l legitimate extent.
 l Other cities are, here and there, fol- 1 lowing the Washington plan. wi h notifications suitable to different To- 1 calities.
 ! It really doesn't make much differ ] ence about the details of the schemes adopted. so long as they fit the con- l ditions they have to meet, and so long i as they are underiain and shot throug h i with the idea of team play One : man can't play basee ball all by his | lonesome. Nine men can play good
 base ball. each one playing solely on his own hook. But nine men playing
 together as team, each one, as In-
 tent upon helping the other eight as