Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — Millions of Eggs Placed in Storage [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Millions of Eggs Placed in Storage

OMAHA.— A short report in the local market news serves to recall the agitation of six months or more ago against high prices and the more or less frenzied talk about drastic legislation for reducing the cost of living. The item states that in Omaha there are today about 4,000,000 dozens of eggs in cold storage in the various packing houses and the cold storage vaults—that is 48,000,000 eggs, or half an egg for every man, woman and child 1n the United States; and these figures are for Omaha alone; other cold storage centers, such as Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and other large cities are not reporting the size of their stocks. During the winter, when eggs

are scarce, and prices proportionately high, these 48,000,000 eggs, with some few million dozens more, will be dumped into the markets of under, a system of distribution that will be sure to avoid: gluts anywhere and a corresponding; slump In prices; not one of them, It Is 1 said, Is less than six months old now and when they come out of storagei and are exposed for sale they will have an age of all the way from eight to ten months; their distribution, along with other eggs now in cold storage, will, of course, operate to prevent “egg famines” here and there: —that is, a short supply and inor-i dlnately high prices—but the question] of their effect on the public health lsi of much more importance than thei consideration. How long can a ten-month-old- egg; remain fit to eat after it Is taken from) storage and comes into a normal tem-| perature? Does anybody know? These! questions are vital ones, because It Is! on this point that cold storage legisla-; tion is going to hinge.