Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1911 — Hoosier Eggs Must Now be Guaranteed [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Hoosier Eggs Must Now be Guaranteed

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The large egg dealers and shippers of the state now buy eggs “loss off,” and will compel the farmer to sell good eggs or none at all. This decision was reached at a meeting here some time ago of the Indiana Association of Car Lot Shippers, which meeting was attended by nearly 40 of the 100 or more members. Resolutions were adopted' asserting that the dealers would buy eggs only on the plan of “loss off.” This decision was In line with the amendment which the last legislature added to the pure food law, making it a violation of the law to 'offer a bad egg for sale. This law applies to the farmer, the grocer, the huckster, the dealer, the shipper, or to anybody else who sells eggs. H. E. Barnard, state food and drug commissioner, attended the meeting and made an address, in which he told the members his department would do everything in its power to enforce the new law. Up to this time It has been the common practice for the fanner to sell all his eggs in a lot, regardless of whether the eggs were good, bad or otherwise, and he received a flat price for them. The result was that the consumer had to take his chances on getting good eggs when he bought eggs at a grocery. "It is a crime for any person to offer a bad egg for sale,” said Mr.

Barnard, '“and the fact that a person had a bad egg in his possession is; proof he intends to sell it What we propose to do under the new law la to prevent the sale of bad eggs. We propose to protect the consumer. “When a consumer goes to a grocery and buys a dozen eggs he must get good eggs. Frequently, heretofore, when a man bought a dozen eggs he got two or three bad ones. This practice must be stopped. The consumer must get what he pays for. Not only will we Insist on the shipper living up to the law, but we propose also that every grocery shall guarantee the eggs it fceils. Then the consumer will be protected.” Some of the members said they had! seen In grocery stores signs that; read: “We do not guarantee the egfcs; we sell.” v ( “This will not help the grocers,”. said Mr. Barnard. "They have got; to guarantee the eggs they sell. They! must deal fairly with their cus-' tomers.” , . /