The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-05-22
EGGS BY THE MILLION
But NOT ENOUGH
FRESH EGGS TO Be HAD

eggs. But not so, good fresh select
ed eggs are still not quite as plenti-
tul as some people think. Of course
it is true that the markets have a
large number of eggs on hand, but
when one stops to examine these
eggs. all classes of eggs, dirty, small,
ill-shaped, etc, are found. Most of
these eggs are farm eggs coming from
fiocks that have no attention, no feed
ing, no houses, and in spite of all this
the hens have laid and the nests have
been found containing eggs from one
to fifteen days old. Yes, these are
fresh eggs freshly found but not
fresh laid. This type of egg is the
one that hurts the market and causes
many people to say there is nothing
in the poultry business.
When talking about eggs there are
two things to remember, if you ex-
pect to make money out of them.
The egg game is a big one and it is
a business that has rules and princi-
Piles that must be followed. To dis
regard these rules is as detrimental
to success as lending money without
charging interest.
Often times people have approached
the writer and said, where can /
find market for my eggs?" I asked
if he had few thousand dozen to
sell and he replied: "No, have only
about ten Dozen" At once thought
the problem very simple, for dispos-
ing of 10 dozen eggs was only few
seconds work. but when he said, 81
can't sell at market price, / must
have sixty cents per dozen for them
or else l can't make money out of
chickens" Surely eggs are not
worth 60c per dozen through the
year when compared to other food
products, and anyone having to re-
ceive Coo per dozen through the year
in order to break even or make a
small profit is surely in the wrong
game. No, l should say he is right,
but he has failed in the essentials of
poultry keeping, namely, good feeds
at cheap price, constructive breed
ing, and selection for high egg pro-
duction.
When you find that eggs are too
cheap, reflect back and see what your
cost of production was. 1t may be
that you could not have made money
if you had received one dollar per
dozen for them because of the high
cost of production. Remember that
the more you cut the cost Of produc-
ing eggs by feeding good cheap feeds,
by constructive breeding and by pro-
per methods of culling, the more you
will make on eggs whether they be
high or low. The person who is ever
complaining about the selling price
usually does not worry or complain
about the cost Of feeds, nor does he
worry about the average number of
eggs each hen produces. He feels
that he is in the business and it is
up to the world to give him the price
of his eggs and then a little more for
profit. Remember that every time
you sell an egg you are in direct COM
petition with every poultry producer
in Georgia and every other state in
the union. Someone can produce
them cheaply and it is up to you to
find out how it is done and do it.
If everyone could just take pure
bred chickens and make handsome
profit of from 81 to SO per bird per
year without giving any serious
thought to the cost of production,
then eggs would be so numerous that
they could be bought for several
cents per dozen. Individual efforts,
knowledge of the principles of poul-
try raising, high egg production, con-
structive feeding; are some of the
things that must be considered be-
fore success will come.
Just because you produce eggs
don't think that you can create or
make market. No, the market is
established and it is up to you to
produce so that you can sell on open
markets.
A great deal of agitation has been
going on in the state about storing
eggs until eggs are high again. That
is very noble idea, but the average
Georgia egg that must go into storage
is not fit for storage, and too, by
storing eggs you are bound to infiu-
ence the fresh egg market in the fall