The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-09

Uncle Sam Makes You Money.
WY Decreasing Egg Waste.
By Frederic j. Haskiinl.
an ahona On Il during . sig NILE drive t.


shone on it during six mile drive TO
town were shown.
n The great mass OF the eggs Of the
4 nation are sold by the farmer to his
!, grocer. The latter feels obligated 10
accept whatever eggs the customer
i presents, and this leads to q very
careless method OF conducting an
these early stages OF the egg trade.
i This grocer, for instance, turns his
legs over to q dealer at some point
OF Concentration nearby. While wait
ing for shipment, they may stand Tor
| an hour In the sun on q platform.
j This egg dealer Is the first indivtd-
! ual into whose hands the eggs have
i come. who gives them anything like
Escientific handling. He makes up
carload lots for shipment to distant
4 cities. These eggS may go into cold
4 storage and be held for months. Only
4 those of good quality may be han
1 died in this way.
, So here the eggs are tested for the
4 first time. They are candled" py
passing them between the eye and
tiight. which process reveals their con-
3dition to the expert. The tirsts are
Iselected for the best markets. 1t Of
Item develops that no more than TWEEN
lty-hve per cent OF farm eggs may pc
so classified There is likely to be
I sixty per cent that are classified as
! seconds and must be sold az
cheaper price because they have been
allowed to deteriorate. Five per
lcent are likely to be cracked and nve
per cent entirely bad.
When these eggs reach New York
one out OF each dozen Is likely to be
broken and this il largely due to IN
efficient handling. In New York City
alone the annual loss from breaking
! is II 900, 900 eggs. Each Individual
4 in the great city loses two dozen eggs
each year from this breakage.
The government, having acquaint-
! ed itself with the trip that the aver
iage egg has to take, is making every
EFFORT to expedite its journey.
Through its published bulletins,
1 through Information furnished the
rural press. through Its held agents,
/ it constantly attempts to carry nome
the lesson of the proper care OF eggs
| on the farm 1t shows the money
that may be made by keeping the
eggs fresh and by selling them Tor tho
ltop price as tested eggs.
! An interesting possibility Of in
| creasing the chances OF getting the
ieRgs to the ultimate consumer IN hrst
4 class condition has been DEVELOPED
by the RECOMMENDATION of the superior
! keeping qualities of the inferttle egg
over the fertile.
II a fertile egg is placed In an In
eubator at a temperature of 1913. and
kept there for week, it will have
developed the chick to such degree
that 1t will have taken definite form.
| 1t is days past the possibility or use.
If an infertile egg is subjected to the
same temperature at the end~ OF =
week 1t Will still be unaffected by
them. The additional stay In the
nest, the trip to town In the BACK OF
| the wagon, the wait on the STATION
platform. could have been endured by
an infertile egg.
| So the department has been carry
| ing forward an active campaign for
| the elimination OF the rooster after
the season for raising chicks.i lis past.
The farmers are responding rapidly
In Missouri last year 1t is claimed
that 1000, 900 ROSTERS were imlnedi-
ately marketed after the season for
] setting hens. In many states, Roast
/ the Rooster" clubs have been formed.
| A material effect is in this way be-
| ing produced upon the keeping quail
| tiles OF the egg CROP.
i The second stage in the campaign
| is to induce the groceryman to buy
eggs on test instead OF accepting all
corners. If eggs were bought In this
way, Il would be possible for him to
pay better price for "f1rsts," their
actual value for seconds" and throw
away those that are entirely bad.
His egg transactions would be placed
on business basis. The greatest
benefit would probably accrue from
/ the inducement that would be given
\ the farmer to maintain the quality
OF his eggs and the premium he
would receive when he did SO.
When the experts get as far as the
cereal egg dealer, who ships In large
lots; they have other lessons to teach.
In the first place, they want HIM to
save that one egg In the dozen that
/ is so often broken. II his eggs are
4 packed with the proper care. II there
are no injured or broken cardboards,
| IL the crates have not loosened, there
are unlikely to be any losses from
this score These points may be as
| sured by exercising proper care.
Then there Is the Important mat
ter OF preceding. which is emphasized
at this point. If the eggs are put
into a refrigerator car without hav-
/ ing been. cooled, there is heat In them
that will remain in part for week.
| The refrigerator car is not especially
4 designed to remove this heat from
the eggs Immediately, and every hour
/. that degree of heat above fifty re-
mains in an egg 1t. hastens it toward
unfitness for use.
Therefore. the preceding plant has
been developed. 1t is merely q re-
| frIgerator, which makes it possible
to draw current Of cold air con-