CONSERVING THE EGG SUPPLY
Conserving the Egg Supply How Uncle Sam is Trying to Overcome Conditions Causing Heavy Losses and Bad Quality CONSERVATION is now turning its attention to the lowly but indispensable egg. Hand in...
...The campaign of the past summer had in view the improvement of conditions surrounding the handling and marketing of eggs, and consequently the improvement of the quality of the egg itself as it reaches the consumer...
...By this system the bad eggs are rejected and only the good eggs paid for...
...The state food authorities also cooperated by prosecuting under existing state law cases where bad eggs were sold...
...The efforts have so far been directed mainly to education in better methods, cooperation with egg buyers and State authorities, and experimentation...
...How to prevent waste and deterioration in the handling of this important part of our food supply is a problem that is receiving the earnest attention of the United States Department of Agriculture...
...On account of the material improvement effected in the Kansas eggs, the movement has spread to adjacent States, and efforts are being made to secure uniform legislation in many of these States so as to establish the "loss-off" system of buying—at least during the hot months...
...Incidentally they have given the farmers help whenever possible in the practical management and breeding of poultry, and have urged the keeping of pure bred poultry...
...Crescent...
...An active campaign for the improvement of farm eggs in the Middle West was undertaken last summer by the Bureau of Animal Industry...
...Results thus far have been so satisfactory that it is purposed to continue the work in Kansas during the coming summer...
...Coincident with such improvement there will be a saving to the farmer of a great part of the money loss at present sustained...
...Wisconsin has one bed to every 10,000 inhabitants and New York one to every 1,500, or less...
...Wisconsin has only 250 beds for tuberculosis patients, while New York, although v. ith a larger population, has almost 6,000...
...The educational work has been done by Department field men going among the farmers and impressing upon them the necessity of keeping eggs intended for market in a cool, dry place and of marketing them frequently...
...The actual money loss is suffered mainly by the farmer, while the loss in quality it borne by the consumer...
...This work was preceded by a general survey of the field in the spring of 1908, which showed that an enormous loss was being sustained annually as the result of spoiled and deteriorated eggs...
...Ballinger and Lorimer must be glad that the Mexican cuttlefish is muddying the water.—Buffalo Eveninq Times...
...Hand in hand with conservation of the soil, the pig, the worker, and the baby, goes conservation of the raw material from which the omelette is made...
...This loss results from the ignorance, carelessness, or indifference of the farmer and from dilatory and unsatisfactory methods of marketing...
...The results of New York's work against the plague has been apparent.—Oshkosh Northwestern...
...There is no measure which has such a definite and far-reaching influence for the improvement of the commercial egg than the general adoption of this system of buying and selling...
...The Bureau sought and obtained the cooperation of the egg buyers of Kansas, and as a result the "loss-off" or quality system of buying was brought into use...
...While men who spend more or less time in jail for mental aberrance are permitted to vote, why should not women who own property and pay taxes?—Appleton (Wis...
...The actual work has been done mostly in Kansas...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 13
