The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-06
COOP MARKETING
HELPS EGG men
ASSOCIATION SHIPPING HEN
FRUIT EAST IN CARLOAD
LOTS KEEPS LOCAL
MARKET UP
Membership Has Grown to 900 in
Three Years. Control About 80
Per Cent Of Egg Production
Here.

Eggs in carload lots are being ship.
ped from the state by the Washing.
ton Cooperative Egg and Poultry AS.
ISOLATION and the strength Of the local
market at the present time is largely
due to the efforts of that association
by virtue Of its buying capacity and
marketing ability. This association
was organized in small way in 1917
. by twenty-seven shippers who agreed
ITO pool their eggs and sell them col.
lectively.
The next year J. L. Crab took
charge Of the management and since
that time the association has grown
to membership Of about 900, widely
distributed over the western part of
the state, who are shipping 1000 cases
OF eggs a week. The production has
been found to have reached a stage
where home consumption is not TAX.
ing care of more than forty per cent
of the production and the association
is shipping eggs to every part of the
United States. Eggs are going out of
the Seattle collecting plant in carload
lots right along and recently a car
load was sent from the Lynden collect
ing station to New York City. Collect.
ing stations are maintained at Lynden,
Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma and Win.
lock.
Production Increases
Production of eggs in this section
has increased more than 800 per cent
in the last three years, according to
Mr.. Crab. who is responsible for much
of the success of the organization.
Just how many more eggs the market
is capable of absorbing he Is not pre-
pared to state, but said 1t was his
belief that it would be possible to
flood it.
y Egg production is being made more
Of business of than ever before,
most of them not growing any Of their
chicken feed and many Of them not
even Matching their own chicks as
they find it easier and cheaper to buy
them from the incubator people. The
association is getting the egg pro-
ducers more for their eggs than they
were able to get through the dealers
as the overhead expense of marketing
the eggs is low and the producer gets
the entire price less the small mar.
keting charge. Mr.. Crab believes
that they are paying the producers at
least per cent more than they could
get through any other marketing agen-
cy and possibly more.
Buy Supplies
Besides the collective selling the
association is buying poultry supplies
and feed for its members and is saw
ing them as much as So to "a a ton
on feed right along. The amount OF
feed handled by the association Is
shown by the fact that they have three
cars of feed on the track at Lynden
alone most of the time. The associa'
ton is also handling the young cock
erels which are culled from the locks
as soon as they are old enough Tor
market and has brought the members
as much as two cents pound more
than was possible through any other
source.
The association is interested IN the
proposed legislation placing tarin
on wheat and other grains imported
into this country from Argentine. Can
ada. Australia and other points In that
the price of grain is very important to
the egg producers. II the grain men
get legislation which will raise the
price of feed the egg people want
legislation raising the tarih on eggs
imported from China where the eggs
are raised under conditions which peo-
nile in this country do not feel they
would care to initiate. At the present
time there is a 10 per cent ad valorem
tariff on powdered eggs from China
which the egg producer does not ieel
is sufficient protection If the cost OF
feed is to be raised.