Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1914 — Chinese Eggs Compete With Product of American Hen. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Eggs Compete With Product of American Hen.

. Since, under-the democratic tariff law, Chinese are shipping eggs into this country to compete with the American farmer, great interest has been .manifested in the activity among Chinese egg shippers. The egg business in China has taken on such activity under the democratic tariff law that United States consuls are making reports on it to the U. S. Albert W. Pontius, consul at Nanking, reports that a big egg factory at Nanking is about to be completed. He says that Chinese eggs are either sb\d in open market or collected by interior agents and delivered to the factory or to the exporter. The important egg producing district of China, he reports comprises the Yellow River and the Yangtze River Provinces and that the season of greatest production is from February to May. He says there is a local desiccated egg factory at Nanking which purchases eggs much below the market price. He says this factory paid from 8 to 10 cents a dozen last October. For local shipping, Mr. Pontius reports that eggs are packed In bamboo crates with , sawdust or stftßW.r He say®' thfey arecannedat Nanking and Hankow by a foreign corporation and shipped to Europe. He says he Is Informed that all grades of eggs and all kinds of fowls are used for this purpose. Refrigeration service, he Says, can be obtained from China to the tJ. S. 'SJhe Hankow factory mentioned above tofteps in operation through the year by handling game, poultry, feathers, beans and skins. The American consul reports that i workmen In these egg factories receive about ten cents a day, thus malting it clear how the Chinese are able to ship eggs to America and compete with American farmers.