Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-25
MARKETING FANCY EGGS
TO PARTICULAR TRADE
Freshness. Cleanliness, Careful Grad.
ing and Attractive Packing
Are Necessary.
FIRST STEP is IN HENHoUsE
Avoid the One Small Egg, the Blood
Clot or Other Irregularity Which
Detracts From Appearance and Re-
suits in Lower Price.
By j. RAYMOND kEssLER.
Practical PouIfrNnian.


worth while market for eEgS is 20
deliver III. product clean and fresh,
not mosc = ih- time. but all the :;,re
One or TWO bad eggs now ard then
has wrecse. many \ promising trade,
not oc.y Causing the loss Q: present
customers ~, also destroying the
futurS --ace rcsSi oi,iiiHS OF :hs prc-
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freshness An egg ,has has been
a stale egg when opened. hsias rattle ?
water and it ~in have q nac TASTE.
Frequent gathering IS as inpo-taa, ii
winter as in Sumner
Grading OF Prime Importance
Next in Importance comes grading.
would secure and hold a worth-w lille
trade. Grading usually conveys the idea
of color alone. whereas true grading
inc udes three things-color. size and
freshness.
In grading for color. the eggs should
be separated :nto three lots. the abso-
lutely white shell eggs. those with
brown shells and then the speckled
AMI off-coior ones. The grower will
come nearer to having q uniform color
of egg IL he adopts one breed of fowls
instead OF mongrel flock. AS an in
stance. we obtain the white shell egg
from the Leghorn, brown eggs from the
Rocks AMI from the Wyandotte the
speckled egg.
The matter OF which is the best
color depends entirely upon the par
ticular market supplied. Some people
favor tho white egg, others believe the
brown shell egg is superior. However,
whether white. brown or spccklcd. the
price obtainable will always be better
r
are OF a uniform color. Where Il con-
taiacr canrot Oe u,led with cEgs OF
one color in reasonable time, 1t will
pay the producer to use smaller car
riers and have each one contain =;
uniform product.
Tint One Small Egg.
The next step i'm grading is size
which is fully as important as color
Nothing detracts more from price thar
TO have one or two small eggs in a
layer. One small egg in package
or :, few distributed through crate
vii lower the price several cents n
dozen in thu wholesale market. In the
case OF tn. private customer the one
small egg TO the dozen is not fair
deal. and usually makes the customer
feel that he has been cheated EGGS
OF large size generally bring more than
small ones, but the important thing il,
grading is not 50 much the size OF
the eggs as their uniformity.
NO doubt the most important point
in grading Is freshness, for IL the eggs
are stale. then grading for color and
size is wasted labor. Where j, is the
endesror % serve a particularly good
trade !, val pay 20 candle even the
fFesaes; Q: eggs Gambling enables one
20 Iic. OF lie c--zz.5-zl egg contain.
ing tli-ar: go itcraer matter some
tine. scG-.1 :. ~ -, ~ .Sss, .rhich,