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6 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 I s ' y d i -r ju LS L J*,, " ■ J 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 hens thirty days. Special large-size packages, $5.20, contains same number of tablets as six dollar size packages. For sale by H. G. HASTINGS CO. Seeds and Poultry Supplies. 16 West Mitchell St. Phones Main 25&2-S-'?, Atlanta. Bsmjainsy* 1 All makes, singles or twins - Every machine expertly rebuilt: tested. guaranteed in perfect shape. Send 2c for bulletin ot Fall bargains in rebuilt motor 7/vlfiigS/lU cycles. Saves you half. THE WESTERN SUPPLIES CO ’ 366 Hayutln Bldg., Denver. ColoA 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- Write today tor our Free Book which tells how Full instructions in Fur Grading told in plain and simple language that all can understand. Study our “Trappers Manual” - it wtjll teach you how to tell if vou are getting a square deal in the grading of your furs, theonly book on fur grading ever published. Free to Trappers. Also ‘Tur Facts” and Trappers Supply catalogue. Get full in formation about our “Smoke Pump.” the wonder invention for trappers. A card or letter brings all this information FR EE Write today. ABRAHAM FUR COMPANY 213 N. Main Street. St. Louie, Mo. 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Blue Buckle Over Alls Biggest selling overall in the world ©J. a a,? 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. 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