Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — Selling Eggs by Weizht. [ARTICLE]

Selling Eggs by Weizht.

The question or changing the mode oi selling eggs has oftentimes been freely discusse I. Many argue in favor ot selling by weight rather than by the dozon. But old established customs are very hard to change. There are reasons In favor of the change. To the strong argument that eggs differ much in weight, it may be answered that when they are soid by the dozen It is to those who have their eyes open, and who, therefore, need not pay prices which they consider too dear lor eggs of a certain quality. To this it may be answered that very many eggs are continually changing hands which are not seen at all, the parties who suffer being the consumers. “As things are,” says a writer 1*• the Household Companion, “it would certainly pay the producer better to keep some variety of fowl which lays a large quantity of eggs instea ! of large sized when they are to be sold irrespective of size. Colonel T. E. Dawson, of Grand Forks, N. D. f owns the first military order issued by General Grant. It is a simple document, is No. 1, dated July 2, 1861, appointing Mr. DawsoD quartermaster and commissary of the Twen-ty-flrst Illinois. It isßigned Colonel U. 8. Grant, Springfield, 111. Mr. Dawsoa has refused $3,000 for It