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State Aid for Warehouses
Would Solve Big Problem,
Writer in ‘Ruralist’ Says
BY A. F. LEVEB
Xn the “Southern Buralist”
Fortunately, we have advanced to
* point in the consideration of the
cotton problem where it is now con
ceded that the most important sin
gle factor in the distribution of cot
ton is a system of warehousing ade
quate to accommodate at least 35
per cent of the total annual produc
tion.
What we are striving to do is to
enable the producer the
man who takes all the risks from
the time of planting until the period
of harvesting, to get the real, gen
uine value of his product. This he
has never been able to do. This he
can never do under the present lack
of system of distribution.
A system which will enable him
to bring about this result must as
a, first step bring to him sucn fi-'
/ nancial support as will put him in
j>p«ltion to resist artificial depres
sion in prices. To put it another
way, he must be in such position fi
nancially as to be able to market
his crop in accordance with trade
demands. This at present he is not
n.ble to do because cotton, under the
x»y*s*at system of marketing, lacks
vajuja and the result is that
out of a 12,000,000-bale crop 8,000.-
000 bales thereof are marketed usual
ly during the four months of Sep
tember, October, November and De
cember.
The ability upon the part of the
producer to market his cotton slowly,
and in keeping with the demand
therefore, is the key to the whole situa
tion, and this is what is proposed to
be done through a system of ware
housing. Such a system will furnish
cotton for the first time with a credit
value, which it can never have un
warehoused, and without which it
can never be marketed to bririg to
the producer its real value.
The framers of the federal reserve
act, especially those who were most
influential in fixing these K provisions
of it which have a relationship to
agriculture, were from the cotton
producing states and did their think
* Ing in terms of what was best for
/ cotton, which, of course, in its broad
j er aspects, meant likewise what was
f best for agriculture. Section 13 of
r this act represents their thinking
in this regard. That section in et
feet provides that the cotton farm
er may take his promissory note,
with a maturity not exceeding six
months, with a warehouse receipt for
staple agricultural products attached
thereto, to any member bank of the
federal reserve system and have tnat
note discounted. ...
This means, in its practical opera
tion, that the cotton farmer who in
thp snrinsr has given his note to tne
local P bankeP to & fall due in October
or November, and who heretofore un
der the old system of banking was
forced to sell his cotton at the then
prevailing prices, is now in position
to sell or not sell as his judgment
and the circumstances may decide.
With a system of warebousing al
W has to do is take his bale of cot
ton to the warehouse, have it weigh
ed by a licensed weigher, graded by
a licensed grader, taking a receipt
Showing all the facts from a licensed
and bonded warehouse man. write
h?s promissory note for the amount
Sue. attach hfs receipt to such note
nresent it to the bank, no, un
and present it. v thig section o f the
° r the i recent
attached, federal reserve bank
of his district, where again it is
h °M O os e t d ’bankers who have discussed
agreed that K would
be entirely safe to loan of
t^e P c e o r tton n on°t s he day in question un-
ot ware
housing as is°no
Er n %e^n(ble;lX r |e men
VhTmaln°p?oblem no,, hj,
he
in and o? talk
for t g he method of
procuring warehouses The mission
?£i Xg h now b !: n act?o e n the
harvest? which interpreted, means
to build the warehouses. f
All of the plans suggested
bringing about the establishment of
a system of warehouses throughout ,
the cotton belt have been. carefully
analyzed, and my. conclusion, from
such an analysis, is about this.
Co-operative effort upon the P
®f farmers and- business men i a
given community could build ware
houses; such effort, if
solely. mav build warehouses, but ,
the certainty o f . obtal “ in K
of warehouses adequate to meet t
situation is to be found in a plan
of state aid to communities for this
purpose. Such a plan was P r
and advocated by me a few weeks
ago in a series of addresses which
was invited to deliver in South
Carolina in behalf of the grading
and warehouse campaign conducted
jointly by Clemson college and tne
feouth Carolina branch of the Amer
ican Cotton association, and the
plan has the very earnest indorse
ment of President Wannamaker, of
the American Cotton association.
The thought involved m this idea
of state aid is that as a matter of
broad principle and public policy in
behalf of the general welfare, every
class, profession and business in the
south is vitally and directly icon
cerned in seeing to it that the farm
er is assured for the cotton not a
fair price,” but its actual, intrinsic
value? based upon the selling price
to the consumer of the finished prod
uct, less the costs of transportation,
manufacture and distribution, both
wholesale and retail, with a reason
able profit to .each of the •handlers.
The plan involves the application
first of all of the well-known prin
ciple that things in this world un
striven for are usually not valued so
highly, and hence the community is
called upon to make its sacrifice to
. the extent of one-half the cost, and
to the other principle that all who
are interested in the problem should
be called upon to share in the solu
tion of it, and hence the state is
called upon to bear, for the time be
ing, one-half the expense. Moreover
the scheme is not without precedent.
On the contrary, it is following what
C is beginnig to be the best legislative
~ precedent. It follows the idea of the
federal aid road act, the Smith-
Lever demonstration act and the
Smith-Hughes vocational educational
act. In fact, the strong tendency in
legislation is for the government,
state or national, to do things, big
things, only upon the communities
showing their interest by their
money.
Warehouses should be located only
after a very comprehensive and ac
curate survey of the states has been
made in order to determine the
strategic distribution points at
which they may best serve their
purposes. It would be unfortunate,
‘ Indeed, to have warehouses indis
criminately located here and there
without regard to the whole distri
bution problem, for it is not the
number of warehouses that is ‘so
Important as it is the proper loca
tion of such warehouses.
This plan proposes further to cre
ate sinking fund out of one-half
of the profits of the system, to be
used by the state both in the pay
ment of the interest on the bonds
outstanding, and ultimately to re
tire these bonds at maturity. The
other half of the profits would go
to the warehouse stockholders.
Well managed warehouses, experts
tell us, may be counted upon, under
normal conditions, to show a fair
jfeturn upon the investment. and
they think that the profits cover
ing a period of twenty or twenty
five years would be sufficient to
take care of the interest and at
the maturity period retire the bonds.
If these judgments are correct it
will be seen that the plan will
not cost the taxpayers of the states
a penny. The only thing they will
have done is to have extended for
twenty years their collective credit
to the farmers of the states.
When the bonds of the state have
yeired, the investment of the state
having been liquidated, the theoreti-
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Experts Give Tips on
Killing and Dressing
Poultry for Market
Birds to be killed and marketed
should be kept without feed for at
least twelve hours before killing, say
poultry specialists of the United
States department of agriculture. The
best method of killing is to suspend
the fowl by the legs and through
the mouth cut the jugular vein in
the back of the throat with a sharp
pointed knife. Arter cross-cutting
this vein once or twice, cut into the
roof of the mouth so as to pierce the
brain with the point of the
slightly turning the point after iff
has pierced the brain.
Fowls to be used at home may be
killed more* easily by chopping off
their heads. The fowls maw be ei
ther dry picked or scalded® Dry
picking makes a better-appearing
market fowl, ■ but scalding, which is
easier, is often preferred, if the bird
is for home use. Dry picking should
be done immediately after the biro
is killed, as the feathers then come
out more easily. Be careful not to
tear the skin. For scalding, use wa
ter heated just below the boiling
point, immersing the fowl two or
three times, or until the feathers
pull off easily, but do not leave it in
so long that the skin scalds.
Cool the fowls after they are
picked, either by hanging them in
cold or iced water. Fowls for mar
ket are usually sold undrawn, but
for home or local use they may be
drawn by removing the crop through
an opening made in the skin of the
neck, and cutting around the vent
and then removing the intestines
and all other visceral material, mak
ing an additional slit into the abdo
men if necessary. Place the liver
and gizzard Tiack in the body cavity
Usually hens make better breeders
than pullets. Cockerels, if well grown
and matured, often give better fer
tility than older birds. However
cock birds that have proved good
breeders should be used.
Veteran Hunter Stalks
Wolf That Has Killed
Stock Worth $25,000
Get that wolf,” is the sole order
under which H. P. Williams, of Cus
ter, one of the most experienced
hunters in South Dakota, is working
for the biological survey of the
United States department of agrlcul
ture.
wolf” is a wicked veteran
w.th the cunning of a criminal hu
man and with an account of $25,000
charged against him for cattle and
sheep destroyed in the six or seven
yearsof depredations.
This big cattle thief has defied all
efforts of the local hunters. One of
the tactics credi/ed to him is that
after making a kill of a fat calf or
steer and eating his fill he makes a
long trail from his kill and back
t* acks on a parallel line a few rods
away. He then lies in wait at a
point convenient to the sheltering
timber.
When the hunters trail him with
cog’s he watches them from his cov
er safely to leeward to avoid his
scent being carried. As the pack
passes scent he quietly slips
into the woodland and makes his
getaway.
Stock raisers had about decided
that it would be necessary to board
the old “varmint” for the rest of
his natural life, or until he died from
over-eating; but the biological sur
vey determined not to be defeated bv
a wolf, and Williams promises to
bring in the marauder before another
season is ended.
Crusade Against Moles
Gives Farmers of West
Good Profit on Skins
, obtained from animals
killed in the crusade fostered by the
biological survey. United States de
partment of agriculture, against crop
destroying animals have netted $50.-
000 to $60,000 a year to farmers of
Oregon and Washington. Moles and
the many kinds of rodents do seri
ous damage to grass and grain, and
started against them through co
a campaign of extermination was
garments. The northwestern mole
operation of the biological survey and
the states relations service. As-a by
product of extermination the fur of
the- mole was found to be of value.
The pelt of the northwestern mole
is superior to that of the Scotch
mole, which is generally used for fur
garments. Teh northwestern mole
skinsjiave recently sold at from fifty
to sixty cents apiece and have been
in great demand. ,
The totaLannual damage by rodents
to crops and grains in the United
States is estimated roughly at $300,-
000,000. This is being cut down by
systematic poisoning campaigns in
various sections. The territory cov
ered in these campaigns in the last
year amounted to about 34,000,000
acres. The saving to crops in the
destruction of moles and of such ro
dents as prairie dogs, ground squir
rels, p,ocket gophers, and jack rab
bits is' estimated to be $10,000,000 a
year.
Australian Wheat Trial
Tests made by the United States
edpartment of agriculture with 130
lots of Australian wneats recently in
troduced into this country have
brought out three varieties adapted
for growing on the Pacific coast,
where they have produced larger
yields than some of the native com
mercial varieteies. They are known
as Federation, Hard Federation, and
White Federation. The Australian
varieties in general are susceptible
to most cereal diseases, but many of
these are not destructive in the Pa
cific 'coast region.
Concerning Corn
Corn is never stationary in quali
ty. It either improves or retr<
grades, says a United States denart
ment of agriculture specialist. There
is no more excuse for farmers rais
ing scrub corn than scrub cattle.
cal stock of the state in the ware
houses would then be turned over to
the existing stockholders. The state,
as an investor in them, would re
tire and thejl would become the
sole property of the individual
stockholders. This would mean to
intelligent men that the stock for
which par had been paid would in
the end become double in value.
Mention is made of this fact to
bring out the point that intelligent
men in the communities wold not be
likely to hesitate in putting their
money into an enterprise, the suc
cess of which is so certainly as
sured. Farmers and business men
would respond to such an appeal,
and this would make certain, be
yond question, a system of ware
housing sufficient to meet all the
needs of the south.
This state and proposition, when
understood by the people, will meet,
in my judgment, the healthy en
dorsement of all the people. Cotton
is the vital product of the south.
It bears the same relationship to
her economic, financial, industrial
and social future as the heart bears
to the human system. And it is
not left either to the hand or the
eye, he head of the foot alone of
the human body to be interested
in whether the heart is properly
pumping its life-giving blood into
the systev,i but each of these has
an equal and vital interest in this.
So it is with the price of cotton
It is not a matter of concern alone
for the farmers, for if the price is
good, the south is rich; if it is poor,
the south is bankrupt, and every
class has a direct interest in the
prosperity of his country, for out
of that ’must come his prosperity
and happiness.
YOU MAY SEE A VAST DIVERSITY OF IN
FAIR, which opened Saturday at Lakewood. A
China pig, under a year old, and some members o
great porker to the fair. The pig club boye are, lef
mond Hart, Pink Cherry Hart and O. E. Hart, J
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A DRY CELLAR INCREASES
VALUE OF AVERAGE HOUSE
“Is the cellar dry?”
This is the first question a person
asks when considering the purchase
of a house. - Real estate dealers say
that a good cellar adds at least SSOO
to the selling price of the average
house. I3e that as it may, a good,
dry cellar is a valuable asset, nor
can its true value be measured in
dollars. Rather. the value is de
termined by the convenience, com
fort. and health of those who dwell
in the house.
Selecting a Site x
It is well known that dry air is a
poor conductor of heat or cold, and
it promotes evaporation, which is a
cooling process. It is Well known
also that moisture favors decay, cor
rosion. and the growth of many
forms of life which are bbjectionable
or harmful to man. For these rea
sons a dry cellar is better insulated
and is less subject to outside tem
perature changes than a damp cellar.
Tn brief, a damp cellar is unfavorable
for the storage of fruits, vegetables,
and foods, is destructive of sills,
floors, pipes, tools, and utilities, is
productive of .insanitary copditions,
and without much doubt aggravates
or is a contributory cause of certain
well-known ailments of man.
As it is better to avoid mistakes
than to correct the consequences, it
is fitting at the outset, when select
ing a new building site, to give con
sideration to several very important
points; These, as outlined by spe
cialists of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture who have stud
ied the subject closely, include:
(1) The site should be moderately
elevated, so that a fall in at least
one direction from the building is
obtained. Many prefer a “perched”
site because of the commanding
view, better movement of air, great
er depth to ground water (that is.
the surface of the water showing
in a well or pit. and often called the
water table), and superior surface
and underground drainage. Others
prefer'to forego some of these ad
vantages and to select a site shelter
ed from strong winds, especially
those likely to bring stormy or cold
weather.
The ground should be so open and
norous that no air and -water are ad
mitted readily, as, for example,
sands, gravels, or soils capable of
cood cultivation. The vegetation
should not be profuse, and the soil
and subsoil should be clean—that is.
contain little or no organic wastes
of either animal or vegetable origin.
Henhouse Needs Real Clean-Up
Just Before Winter Arrives
Along with the storing of pump
kins, the husking of corn, and the
other tasks that fall brings comes
the disinfection of the hen house.
Whether the poultryman has a few
birds or many, if he is wise, he
knows that the roosts, floors, nests,
and every crevice of the building
should be thoroughly saturated with
a disinfectant before the birds are
introduced to their new quarters.
Hens do not thrive or lay well when
they are infested with lice or mites.
The following directions for ridding
the chicken house of all its unwel
come inhabitants are given by the
United States department of agri
culture.
Destroying the Mite
The first step necessary to de
stroy parasites on chickens is to get
rid of the hiding places as fast as
possible. The roosts should be taken
down and all unnecessary boards and
boxes removed. In heavily infested
houses mites are to .be found in all
parts of the building, including the
roof. Where they are less numerous,
the infestations usually are confined
to the roosts and nests and the walls
immediately adjacent. For large
chicken houses a bucket pump, knap
sack sprayer, Or barrel pump is de
sirable. A rather coarse sprav
should be applied from all angles
and thoroughly driven into the
cracks. The floors should also be
treated.
In tests conducted by the United
States department of agriculture
during the last four years several
different materials used as sprays
have proved effective against mites.
Commercial carbolineum, which con
sists essentially of a high-grade an
thracene oil, has proved very ef
fective. The killing power of this
substance, which is derived from
coal tar, lasts for several months,
and mites which may be inclined to
come in from other buildings are re
pelled for a long time. This ma
terial is rather expensive—about $1
a gallon—but since the number of
treatments necessary to control an
infestation of mites completely is
less than that required when any
other known material is used, its ap
plication is strongly advised.
Crude petroleum, while not so ef
fective as carbolineum, retains its
killing power for several weeks, and
in most localities is very cheap. Since
it does not dry into the wood so rap
idly, it is more likely to soil the
fowls and clothing. These materials
can be sprayed better if reduced with
kerosene at the rate of about 1 part
of gerosene to 3 parts of the other
material. Both often contain for
eign particles which should be strain
ed out before the spraying is be
gun.
It has been found that one thorough
application of eithei- of these ma
terials will often completely eradicate
the mites from an infested chicken
house, but ordinarily it is advisable
to make a second application a month
after the first, and in some cases
a third treatment is required. These
subsequent applications may be made
with a brush, the materials being
used pure, and only the roosts, their
supports, the walls adjoining, and
the nests if they are infested, being
treated. This method of application
is effective for the first treatment
TERESTING THINGS AT THE SOUTHEASTERN
t the top of picture is shown a prize Poland
if the Clayton County Pig club, who brought the
t to right, Hiram Cowan, Vaughn Shellnut, Ray
r.—Staff photos by Winn.
(3) The site should be well and
deeply drained. During the wet sea
son of the year the ground water
should be at least ten feet below
the surface of the ground, and h.
depth of fifteen feet insures still
better aeration and ventilation of the
ground. As to the distance between
the cellar bottom and the ground wa
ter, much depends upon the character
of the intervening earth and the
type of floor used. In precisely the
same* way that oil rises in a lamp
wick or ink spreads over blotting pa
per water will pass through the mi
nute spaces or pores existing in all
kinds of soil and many varieties of
rock. This capillary rise in coarse
sands and gravels may be no more
than two or three feet, but in very
fine sands, silts, and clays it may
range from five to eight feet.
(4) No site should be chosen with
out first determining the source of
the domestic water supply, its purity
and abundance, and fixing upon the
location of a suitable plat of ground
in which to waste sewage or other
foul drainage.
Damp-Proofing- Cellar
Where a cellar, by reason of poor
construction and grading, becomes a
sump or basin for the periodic collec
tion of water from eaves, down
spouts, snow banks, or other sur
face sources, a number of simple
remedies may. be employed. A sur
prisingly effective method, one that
improves the appearance of every
low-set building, is to place addi
tional filling against and near the
cellar wall and grade down to a
smooth, sharp slope extending at
least eight or ten feet from the wall.
After seeding with a good lawn grass
and raking, the surface should be
rolled or otherwise firmed.
Where it is desired to reduce or
prevent dampness in existing stone,
brick, or concrete walls and floors,
or to shed water down the walls, the
simplest method is to apply two
coats of some specially prepared
damp-proofing paint. As in all paint
ing operations, the surface to be
treated should be thoroughly clean
and dry and the paint be brushed into
all pores, hair cracks, and inequali
ties, leaving a smooth, continuous
coating throughout.
Many other details concerning the
securing of a dry cellar are contain
ed in a separate from the 1919 year
book of the United States department
of agriculture, which may be had
upon request of the department at
Washington, D. C.
also if the houses are not heavily
infested. Poultry should be kept out
of the treated buildings until the
material is .well dried into the wood.
In spraying henhouses care should
be exercised to prevent the spray
from striking chickens around the
building. This is especially .impor
tant with young chicks.
Pure kerosene and kerosene emul
sion in double the strength ordinarily
applied to plants will destroy all
mites hit, but these substances have
not body enough to destroy those
mites which are in more protected
situations, and several applications
at ten-dav intervals are needed to
destroy ail the mites.
When poultry are to be transferred
to new quarters it is desirable that
they be kept three days and nights
in a pen so that the mites will leave
them before their introduction into
the new building. The roosts in the
new building and in the quarantine
cage should be treated in order that
any mites which have left the fowls
mav be destroyed.
Lice as a rule do not have the
habit of hiding in cracks, but occa
sionally they are found in the,build
ings as well as on the fowls. The
clean-up for mites will also eradicate
the lice found in the building. For
killing lice on fowls, in experiments
carried on by the United States de
partment of agriculture, nothing
proved so effective as sodium fluorid
All the fowls should be well dusted
with it before they are put into the
clean quarters. Flowers of sulphur
applied in dust form was also foun
to be effective.
Brazil Cotton Short
Advices received by the Unite
States department of agricultu: <
from Brazil say that 80 per cent o:
the new cotton plants there hav<
been destroyed by a small suckin:
insect of the family of lace bugs
which extracts the juice of th<
leaves, thereby killing the plants
The Brazilian cotton crop will be
very short this year as a result, and
e-overr.ment scientists there are seek
ing means to check the ravages o.
the insect. No immediate danger it
seen of an invasion of this country
by the Brazilian insect.
Woman Forester
When the forest lookout on Tah
quitz Peak, in the San Jacinto
trict, California, was incapacitated
this fall Mrs. Reindorp, wife of the
district ranger, donned khaki, loaded
blankets and grub on a horse, and
took over his duties, holding the look
out post for more than a week. This
is one of the incidents reported to
the United States department of ag
ri cu 11 ure through the forest service.
Bur Has Two Seeds
lu eradicating the cocklebur, re
member that it carries a double-bar
reled gun. Every bur carries two
seeds, only one of which sprouts tl
fifst year. Even when the product, of
that seed has been killed the other
will be in shape to make trouble the
next season. The United States de
partment of agriculture has a cir
cular 6n the cocklebur —how to get
rid o£ &
Careful Timber Cutting
And Co-operative Sale
Profitable in West
With the help of the forest service
and the county agent, a number of
farmers who live in Hangman Valley,
Wash., just north of the Palouse di
vision of the St. Joe forest, are co
operating this year in the sale of
about 300,000,000 feet of timber.
fall the forest service was re
quested to aid these farmers in dis
posing of a considerable amount of
timber on their claims. It developed
that there were approximately 201)
settlers who owned about 300,000,000
feet of timber which they desired to
dispose of as a unit in order to at
tract some company capable of han
dling the entire proposition. They
were, however, unable to agree upon
a satisfactory price. The project had
been worked up by the local county
agent, a/ former forest service man,
from whom the request for help
came. \
The forest service agreed to make
an appraisal of the timber and to
assist in drawing up a contract ano
sale conditions. The appraisal was
made last-spring and a price fixed of
about $3.50 per thousand feet. Al
though the land is well adapted to
agricuture, it will not be possible for
the owners to put all of it into culti
vation for a number of years. Con
sequently it is to their advantage to
devote it to growing timber until
such time as it is needed for raising
crops. The stand consists of yellow
pine of a good quality and contains a
large number of trees just below
merchantable size which will make
rapid growth when the old timber is
removed. It is distinctly a case where
it will pay the farmers to grow trees.
These facts were explained to the
members of the association and they
quicklv saw the advantage of han
dling the forest in the manner recom
mended. In order to save the young
growth they agreed to sacrifice 30
cents per thousand on the stumpage
price.
Farmers in general who own small
bodies of timber will find it profitable
to co-operate with their neighbors in
marketing their grown timber. In
many cases the individual amounts
are too small, as in the above in
stance, to make it profitable for their
owners to advertise for bids or for
sawmills to come in. M hen care is
taken in selecting and cptting timber
a woodlot may be made a source ot
income to its owner for an indefinite
period of years.
Utilizing Tomato Seeds
From 1,000 to 2,000 tons of tomato
seeds go to waste each year in the
big pulping plants east of the Mis
sissippi river. Investigations by the
United States department of agricul
ture indicate that they can be profit
ably recovered and converted into an
edible oil and a press cake or meal
for stock feed, with a gross return of
more than $85,000 and a net of about
$35,000. Plants would operate two
months a year on tomato seeds and
might be used for grape and pump
kin seeds in addition, reducing the
overhead.
419 Eggs From 20
Days
Mr. Dougherty Got This Result In
October. Plan is Easily Tried.
“I tried Don Sung and the results
were far past any expectations. I got
419 eggs in 30 days from 20 hens while
moulting. I think this is wonderful, as
Uw l ' hardly laid at all before.” —Frank
IJL Dougherty, 5940 E. 11th
>4*' r© / SL, Indianapolis.
blr. Dougherty bought
51 worth of Don Sung in
A n October and wrote this
/ I letter in November. Fig-
ure his profit on 35 dozen
eggs from hens that for
merly laid little or nothing.
This may sound too good to be true,
but it costs nothing to find out. We’ll
make you the same offer we made him.
Give your hens Don Sung and watch
results for one month. If you don’t find
that it pays for itself and pays you a
good profit besides, simply tell us and
your money will be cheerfully refunded.
Don Sung (Chinese for egg-laying) is
a scientific tonic and conditioner. It is
easily given in the feed, improves the
hen’s health and makes her stronger and
more active. It tones up the egg-laying
organs, and gets the eggs, no matter
how cold or Wet the weather.
You can obtain Don Sung from your
druggist or poultry remedy dealer, or
package by mall. Burrell-Dugger Co.,
214 Columbia Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind.
Don Sung
Chinese for Egg-Laying
DON-SUNG LAYING TABLETS
Trial package 52c, enough for ten hens
thirty days.
Large package $1.04, enough for thirty
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Special large-size packages, $5.20, contains
same number of tablets as six dollar size
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1920.
Shipment of Bad Eggs
Means Expensive Loss
And Decreases Dem and
Mrs. Jones finds that she must pur
chase some eggs. Her desire is for.
eggs and nothing but eggs. “Are
they good and fresh?” she inquires
of the retailer. Assured that they
are, she purchases a dozen of them,
and carries them carefully home.
But Mrs. Jones may be shortly dis
illusioned. She finds that the eggs
are not only poor in quality, but
that among them a potential home
breaker may be lurking. She makes
a rapid mental calculation. Two bad
eggs in a dozen increases the price
of the ten good eggs. She resolves
that thereafter her family will do
without eggs.
Typical of Many Cases
The experience of Mrs'. Jones is
typical of that of tens of thousands
of housewives every day, say mar
keting specialists of the bureau of
markets. United States department
of agriculture. High prices asked
for fancy eggs compel a large ma
jority of housewives in cities to pur
chase ordinary eggs; but because
the number of bad eggs in a dozen
of ordinary eggs may be such as to
make the price of the remainder pro
hibitive, eggs are not used as a basic
part of the family diet. The result
is a decreased demand for eggs,
whereas the demand might be in
creased were these housewives cer
tain of receiving good eggs every
time they made a purchase.
According to specialists of the bu
reau of markets, the bulk of the eggs
marketed in some markets are of
ordinary quality. Moreover, many
of these eggs pass the • inspection
tests upon the merest margin of
safety, with the result that they may
become bad unless sold and used
quickly. In addition, enormous
quantities of bad and broken eggs
constantly arrive at markets. No
figures are available to show the pre
cise loss, but the close of the day’s
business at any egg market generally
finds many cases of eggs culled from
the receipts that are totally unfit for
human consumption. Besides the
out-of-pocket cost that this condition
produces, transportation space that
is so sorely needed in these times is
wasted and a food loss occasioned
that the bureau maintains could be
prevented by the use of proper pro
duction, grading, packing and ship
ping methods.
Bad and inferior eggs cost as much
money to produce and transport as
do good eggs, and when the loss on
the bad and inferior eggs is added to
the cost of the good eggs it often oc
curs that the farmer’s entire profit is
wiped out. In any event it reduces
the profits on the entire shipment. A
concrete illustration of such a loss is
a shipment of ninety eggs recently
received by a Washington commis
sion firm. Os these eggs 18 3-4 doz
en were condemned as unfit for food.
Upon an arbitrary basis of 50 cents
a dozen to cover the production and
transportation costs on the entire
shipment the fact that 20 per cent
of the eggs were condemned auto
matically increased these costs on
the remainder of the eggs L 2 1-2
cents a dozen, or 25 per cent. On
this basis the stripper lost not only
the 18 3-4 dozen eggs, but was com
pelled to take an actual loss on the
entire shipment, for the eggs mar-
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keted were not sufficient in quality to
command a price of 62 1-2 cents a
dozen.
Jeopardizes Fair Business Relations
While, of course, every shipment of
eggs is not 20 per cent bad, the prin
ciple in the foregoing illustration ap
plies to every instance where other
than perfectly sound eggs are shipped
to market. Inferior egjgs are some
times included with good eggs, upon
the assumption that even a small
price for them is better than nothing.
This is a fallacy, for even though the
price realized may pay the cost of
handling and transportation, the
practice jeopardizes the fair and
above-board business relationship
•that should exist between seller and
buyer.
The bureau of markets maintains a
special division with regard to the
marketing of dairy products. Based
upon the actual experiences of thou
sands of dairy farmers throughout
the United States, careful studies of
every phase of dairy products mar
keting are made by this division and
the results used to help farmers solve
their marketing problems.
No matter how hopeless of solution
your marketing problems may seem,
call upon the bureau of markets. Cer
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sands of other farmers a solution can
be found.
The outstanding features in the
egg production and marketing meth
ods recommended by the bureau are
the production of eggs free from dirt,
clean nests, and daily gatherings.
The eggs should be kept in a cool,
dry place, and protected from heat
and moisture when taken to market.
They should be candled by the coun
try buyer or dealer, and purchased
on a “loss-off” basis. In crating,
new cases and No. 1 fillers and flats
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