Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1914 — Farmers’ Wives Are Up Against the Chinese Hen. [ARTICLE]

Farmers’ Wives Are Up Against the Chinese Hen.

A veteran dealer in eggs says in the New York Produce Record: “I would like to propound this query: Where were all the bright ones in the egg business at, and I am willing to be numbered among them, not to have seen that’China eggs, for several years past, could have been bought in China, and the old duty of Scents paid, and landed in this country at a cost of from 13c to. 15c and why didn’t we?” He says that extensive arrangements are being made to fill the American demand for eggs next winter in Austria, Russia, Siberia, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and other continental countries as well as in China, and! that the cold storage season for American eggs must be Shorter than usual this year, on account of the prospect that after December the demand will be largely filled with the imported goods. Hamburg is a large egg market and will ’grow rapidly now as she is the best situated to handle the American demand with a large fleet of swift steamers •plying between that city and New York and Boston and can land eggs in New York within a day or two as quickly as they can come from Chicago and the other western cities. The advent of foreign eggs will shut off a large outlet for eggs from the middle west and the northwest. Another factor is the changed conditions in the Canadian northwest in and around Winnipeg, which heretofore had been supplied with eggs from the Minneapolis and St. Paul territory. Now the territory west of Winnipeg is Alling this demand.