The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-23
By MRS. JOHN c. MOSES

By MRS. JOHN c. MOSES
 Possibly you do not know the details of preserving eggs by wter glass. It is a very simple process. and all
 that is necessary for the housewife to pared by the bureau of animal indus- try. department of agriculture
 You can procure a copy of it merely
 by writing to the division of publica- | tions. United States department of az l riculture, Washington. D. c.
 , If any American family is genuinsly entitled to the luxury of eating liber- ally of poultry and eggs, that family is the farm family Yet the fact re- mains that farm families are not and have never been liberal consumers of either poultry or eggs.
 For the whole country the average yearly consumption of eggs per farm is only 1874 dozen which would be about 21s dozen a week. The average yearly consumption of poultry per farm is 60 head, about one bird week. In few states, of course, the ay- craze consumption runs above these averages. The highest average con- sumption of eggs in any state is four dozen per week per family, and the highest consumption of poultry in any state is about three birds a week ger family
 When the fact is taken into consid- eration that many farm families eat practically no eggs and very little poultry, 1t is apparent that some fam flies must necessarily eat much more freely of both poultry and eggs than is indicated by even these highest av- erages. The maximum consumption of eggs for individual families would run from six to ten dozen week, and of poultry from four to six head a week. These are not excessive quan- titles of poultry and eggs for a good sized farm family, and a general adop- tion of such practice would be bene- ficfal to the people who live on farms, because it would give them a greater variety of diet than they are accus- toned to. would insure fresh meat for at least half the meals, and would make the basic cured meat diet of the average farm family less monotonous and. therefore, more beneficial
 MORE MONEY FOR FEWER EGGS l The consumption of eggs on farms may I be greatly increased while the farm housewife may still receive the benefit | of good prices for fresh eggs in the season of scant production. Indeed. such | system can be worked out in a way ! that will net the farm woman more clear money on her eggs for the year than if she sold them on the generally slipshod
 false economy system. without consum- | ing any considerable quantity of them at home. That would be true because the
 entire home consumption would be from eggs laid during the period of heavy pro-
 duction and low prices, while all of the eggs laid during periods of scant produc-
 ton and high prices would be sold Such a system would work advantageously
 not only for farm families, but for city
 people as we'll, because it would give them
 a larger supply at possibly more moder- ate prices during the months when the production of eggs is not abundant The means to that end are not in any sense difficult. The trouble incurred is not
 commensurate with the money benefit de- | rived, to say nothing of the possibly | greater benefit of more liberal egg
 ration for the family. All that has to be done is to save some of the eggs that
 are laid during periods of heavy produc- tion for consumption during periods of scant production. This does not mean
 either, that the farm family must eat
 all of the stored eggs and give the city