Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-01-05
PLAN TO HOLD EGGS
FOR HOME MARKETS
Producers Here Have Scheme to
Beat Outside Cold Storage
Houses.
EAT YEAR OLD EGGS
RESHIPPED IN
Des MOines Would Be Central Buy
ing Station Operated by
State Association.
Iowa eggs for Iowa market.

This is the slogan adopted by the
Iowa Poultry and Pet Stock associa-
ton in it's announced campaign to
break the egg trust.
The state association has been
quietly organizing several years to
keep Iowa eggs in Iowa. Now they
are asking the cooperation of the
Greater Des Moines committee and
plan to ask the next legislature to
make an appropriation to be used in
"a fight on the eastern cold storage
commission houses.
Iowa poultry raisers say Iowa peo-
pie eat Iowa eggs one year old.
Des Moines is to be made the CEN
trail egg buying and distribution sta
ton, if the plans of the poultry rails
ers materialize. They will urge the
farmers to sell direct to the Iowa as
ISOLATION which in turn will handle
all goods, including chickens and
eggs. The eggs will be bought by the
association agents and kept here for
distribution. The Iowa poultry rails
ers claim they can reduce the cost
of eggs in winter one-third below
present prices. The public is to CO.
operate in the egg trust breaking
campaign by buying Iowa eggs only
and insisting that each egg shall have
the association label.
The cold storae agents buy up dur
ing the egg laying season all of the
available eggs at few cents advance
on wholesale price, the poultry rails
ers say, and they have been unable
to meet the price. The eggs have
been shipped to Chicago or New
York and there held one year when
they are reshipped and sold in the
market from which they first came
at inflated prices.
If the farmers and poultry raisers
, combine to keep Iowa eggs in Iowa
: according to the officers of the asso.
: citation, the egg trust is practically
; broken beause Iowa is second in the
union as a poultry producing state
: The eggs sold in Iowa last year
amounted to $4,000,000. The state
report says the amount was greater
than the gold output in the United
States and Alaska.
Spring fries in the winter at small
cost and labor in the late summer is
within the reach of the ordinary
housewife.
The Woman's Poultry association
of Des Moines held a unique CHECKER
canning demonstration Wednesda!
afternoon at the Coliseum. The dem
onstration was in charge of Prof. e
c. Bishop of the extension depart
ment of the Iowa State college a
Ames.
The members of the association in
vited the women of the city. The
chickens were cut and packed il
glass jars according to the cold pacl
water system. The chickens may bt
canned when their price is the cheap
est in the late summer or just before
the raisers sell off their surplus chic
kens. The chickens are cut as fol
frying and packed carefully in glas!
jars, and covered with cold water t.
which salt is added. The jars are
!, placed in cold water and are removed
after a given number of minutes Of
boiling. The jars are sealed and thu
at is ready for use either for fry
ing or stewing. The Women's asso
citation is a member of the Des
Moines Federation of Women's clubs
Mrs. ]. NJ. Williams is president ant
Mrs. A. H. Ketchum is secretary.
The women plan to establish soor
in Des Moines a community chicken
canning station. They will can chic
ken and sell direct to housewives
Canned chicken may not be luxur!
during the winter months II the
housewives will do their own canning
or buy from the association.