Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
How to Obtain Good Outlets
and the Prices That May
Be Expected
Directions For Packing and
Shipping Eggs in Crates
and Cartons
BY Prof. Frank G. Hare
Poultry Husbandman. Clemson College,
South Carolina


Next in Importance to the production
of fancy table eggs Is finding . regular
outlet for them at good prices. Their
sale in regulation shipping crates
through commission merchants or to a
private trade, packed in sealed cartons,
is to be cOnsiderd. This article II in
tended to point out come of the easiest
ways to secure both markets.
There are two methods of selling
fancy eggs. One is by shipping in the
regulation wooden egg crate holding
thirty dozen, to a commission mer
chant. and the other is by selling the
output to the local trade in cartons
holding one dozen eggs. The former
method is more dependable for the
owner of an egg farm. the capacity of
which in fancy eggs is sufficient to fill
two crates in not over five days. This
requires a daily production of at least
$50 selected eggs. Express companies
do not weigh egg crates, but bin them
at SO pounds each. Two crates are
billed at 106 pounds which weight is
sufficient to give them the lowest eX-
press rate. The rate on two or more
crates of eggs from South Carolina to
New York is about three and one-half
cents per dozen eggs.
Selling eggs through a commission
merchant is advantageous. He will
handle the entire product at all sea-
sons; the eggs are paid for weekly;
there is, with reasonable care in Sc
lecting the commission merchant, no
loss from bad debts. The seconds and
culfs should be packed in separate
cases. and they will bring what they
are worth
New York Egg Quotations
An explanation of some of the grades
of eggs sold on the New York market,
with the wholesale quotations (prices
paid the shippers by the commission
merchants) of these grades on June 21
1916, will furnish interesting informa-
ton to many. The highest prices were
naturally paid for State. Penna. and
nearby hennery whites, fine to fancy
2S at % cents" EGGS to obtain this
grading must be laid at 'hennery" or
egg farm within a reasonable shipping
distance of New York city; they must
be not over six days old. snow white
color, of large size, having a firm
smooth SHE'LL and perfectly sterile
These same "hennery whites, ordinary
to good, 25h at 81; and hennery
browns, fine to fancy, 81; browns and
mixed, 23h at e." The best grade OF
carefully selected, fresh country eggs
is known as fresh gathered, extra
fine, 20 at 26h." Then follow lower
grades in this same classification fresh
gathered" Extra firsts, 23h at 24h
firsts 22h at 2S1a dirties. No. 1, 20'
at 21k; dirties. No. 2, 1914 at 20; dry
checks, 1914 at 20" The last grading
is for cracked eggs that do not leak
"Undergrades and checks, 16h at 49,
The highest prices of the year are
paid in November Here are few OF
the quotations for last November tc
| indicate what can be expected this
winter: state, Penna. and nearby hen
merry whites, fine to fancy, so to So
hennery browns, 40 at As; fresh gath.
cred, extra fine, A at As; extra firsts
IL at Az firsts, 80 at 40; dirties, No. 1
% at 23." These quotations. or those
you can obtain of the market to which
you ship, emphasize the Importance
of producing and selling only fine
to fancy" or extra fine" eggs.
When the production of eggs is suf
ficient to justify selling them through