Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-10
RICHMOND IS GREAT AS
CASH MARKET FOR EGGS
Packers OF Fresh Hen Fruit Ship
Immense Quantities to New Eng
land in the Proper Season.
GOOD CoLD.sToRAoE BUSINESS
Profitable Season Ahead for Poultry
men and Farmers Who May Havc
Eggs to Sell--War Demands I'M
mcnse-Richmond the Place.

The twelfth annual chicken show o.
the Virginia Poultry Association which,
held the boards at Shockoe Warehouse
nearly all OF last week. was n success
in more ways than one. The object OF
tho show to encourage poultry
raiscrs. to tho end that tho production
Of chickens and eggs i'm Virginia may
he Increased next year as ii never was
before. This object was undoubtedly
accomplished. for the many visitors
TO the show left in a state of enthu-
siasm. and the probability is that the
egg trade of this State viii be larger
next year than ever known before.
Many people are ignorant of tho
fact. but IL is true. nevertheless. that
Richmond has become the largest egg
distributing center in the South. There
arc houses here which do immense
business at the proper season I'm accu-
mul9ting the hen fruit from several
States. packing the same and ship
ming to the North, principally to the
States OF Maryland. Pennsylvania. New
York and the New England States.
The season for packing ana ship
ming fresh eggs runs from January /.
to the last of March. and during thosa
three months the big egg shippers are
the busiest men in the city. The fresh
eggs come In here. TO the big dealers
and packers. In baskets and cases.
from ALL over Virginia: from North
Carolina, South Carolina. Tennessee
and West Virginia. They are picked
over. rcpacked In cases and shipped
10 the markets in the northern states
named
During tho three months OF January.
February and March. the shipments
Of fresh eggs will average TWO car
iosGs per day. every week dag, about
$50 full carloads per season. a fnll
carload Is 400 cases, and case holm
: thirty dozen. Readers WHO may b..
fond OF mathematics. may quickly IL
cure out that something like 10000. 900
fresh eggs 60 from Richmond to a
few points north Of the Mason and
Dixon line, in the first three months OF
Tho year. The bushes. of the men
who make = specially or fresh egg
shipment docs not end with the month
of March. bu; after that time the egg
eaters of the New England States. and
tho other northern States named, liv.
very largely on the home supply. dI-
rect from the barnyarIs OF norther,.
farmers and poultrymen. and the ship
rncnts from Richmond. fall away to al
most nothing.
This home supply keeps TIP until tho
latter part OF Scntenber. and by tn.
first Of October. the cold storanc men
"f Richmond begin 20 re. In their
work. Cntil January. they take tha
place Of the fresh egg shippers and
during that period they ship to the
northern markets in the States ahov.
named. about tn" quantity the freS,,-
men get in during their three months
inning. that is to say. about 100 fun
carloads. and another 100000 cggS
or thercabouts. find their way from
Richmond To tho North and Northeast;
Tho man who loves figures. can now
Got his pencil to WORT: again. Lee
him add TO the above figures. the thou
sands. even millions Of dozens OF eggs
L. F,k
Virginia cities and towns and hose
consumed by Eichmond's 10000 pen-
r'c. aud then ne VIII know tie extent
IF Richr,oniS egg trade. The grand
total viii astonish MIN. or any other
person who has not gone to the ;rou-
hlc 30 ind ont about these thinEs.
such in brief, Is an outline or the
tremendous business Richmond does
~ the egg line. and the why in which
II has been done for several years
uast. but the war has come along and
revolut ionizel various kinds of bust
ness. the egg business included. II IS
almost certain that during the fresh
egg shipping season, now near at
hand, and tho cold storage season to
follow. these immense shipments TO
the North, viii he turned in another
direction. Thcnilitary cantonments in
the South, and the crowded cities near
10 them. are already calling upon
Richmond for all the eggs II has, or can
set TO ship, and these demands will
continue to grow and must be met In
the meantime New York and NIL New
England. will be calling piteouslr
upon Richmond for the eggs they have
heretofore been getting from here. All
Of this means that the big cEg packers
and shippers OF Richmond. Will be in
the market this season for at least
twice as many cSSs az they ever han
died before. Truly. the poultrymen
and the farmers with big barnyards,
can see great and profitable business
ahead. And. OF course. Richmond is
the place for them to send their eggs