Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-02-06

Foynes. County Limerick. Ireland.
A. a housewife what would you think
Of plan OF handling eTEs which
would make eggs boiled with the shell
on aiWays available for the table
How wogId you like 70 feel sure that
any eEr In your basket could be
dropped into a kettle Of hot water
With some certainty that II would
come out a paiatsble egg and not a
nondescript animal product represent
ing the period OF transition from egg
70 chlckonf
When you buy your eggs AZ the
grocer how would you Ike Il II you
could be AZ sure that they we're fresh
and paiasabie az you would be II your
own hers had laid them yesterday
and you yourself had taken them from
the nest and placed them IN tho
kltcheng
NOW II the tales that they are tell
ine here IN Ireland and Denmark and
elsewhere abroad are true. a proper
organisation of the egg producing to-
dustry would give 10 eggs a definite
nRiform quality. Here uncertainty a.
10 quality has been eliminated. and
cooperation has brought staeAasiza-
ton, inspection. and branding. which
render every cooperative egg a strict
~ fresh egg The claim Is. too. that
IN addition 70 giving ycu strictly
frcsh eggH. cooperation will give
them 10 you AZ cost no greater
than the present cost OF ordinary
eggs
From the Farmers Standpoint
II you look at II from the stand
point Of the farmer who has tho fresh
eggs In his nest. he ought 10 be
anxious 10 know how he can hurry
these eggs 10 market before they get
spoiled and are worthless He is also
Interested in getting market that |
supplies steady theyeararound |
demand for eggs for. unfortunately. |
hens have habit Of laying the most
eggs when the price is lowest. A
farmer must have a market when this
the comes.
Aud 80 little party OF us Ameri-
cans have eomo over here To SEQ II
60 operation Is anything that can be
used 10 America 20 help the American
farmer and tbs American consumer
Ae ere also going 70 Denmark. Bel
Finm and Germany 20 SOC n co.opera-
ion In those countries IL doing what
4 claimed for Il. to see n eo-opera-
IioE can be adopted and adapted TO
american needs.
Cooperation Market for Egos.
The lfish cooperation egg market.
ng association IL primarily for the
purpose OF securing a good profitable
narket for eggs. The market must
- reached promptly. the eggs must
"a pass through too many hands.
hey mnst not BE- shipped into dis.
ant city. then half way back across
be country e. ls done with come
srm products Ia America
BY ghe time eggs that start as
triclly fresh. have gone on a Journey
he this aHd arrive al their final dea- !
nation they are no longer strictly
'csh -thsy are simply .eggs"
The cooperative esg marketing as !,
relation here In ireland soon found !.
n that 70 successfully market their
.nmoars erzs they must nnd mar :
sl rot TO distant, they must ship J.
I The wcsi speedy and direct route. =
" ther mesl 80 cars for the eggs J,
lfiaf the shipment ~ 10 prevent the
that comes within even !,
Few days Under anfayoraele condi. ].
ess. ln Eanyi. thsre IS a double reason
z direct marketing o. eggs. the hrst !,
ason i shat any round about. indt y
e marketing costs the censumer i
crsy end Is IA element ia liking the
N coet q nriEs. the second reason
saat fEis long drawn.ou, process !,
marketing rcndsrs this particular !,
odBct unfnaf1etahie shen the mar i,
{ 10 nnaliy resched. TAus co-opera-
y esx associations are doubiy de- n
able y
Quality IN EGGS. -.
After the direct marketing routa u
Is established cooperative egg as "a
cations stili found that eggs which ~
re not strictly fresh when deliy- III
- 70 tho association could not Do ~
g Es strictly freAh. no matter how d,
piciy and directly they we're rushed n,
market The managers ware COM a.
lied 70 adopt very harsh measures -,
Testing eggs delivered 10 them. IN