Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1916 — LONG JOURNEY OF AN EGG [ARTICLE]

LONG JOURNEY OF AN EGG

Consumer Paid Twenty Cents a Dozen More Than Producer In Kansas Got. Russell, Kan.—A. J. Olson, a Russell county farmer who sells hundreds of dozens of eggs annually, on February 9 wrote on'an egg a request for the consumer to write him and inform him where the egg was purchased at retail and what the cost was. Olson sold his product to a Russell dealer for 25 cents a dozen. The eggs were then shipped to Ellsworth, from where they were shipped to Pendleton, Ore., by express. Jhe. Oregon retail merchant paid 34% cents a dozen, and they were retailed at 45 cents, that being the price paid by the woman in Oregon who broke the egg bearing Olson’s letter. Olson received a letter from her recently, and she gave the details of the egg’s career and end in the far Northwest.