Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — Gotham’s Cold Storage Eggs Must Be So Stamped [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gotham’s Cold Storage Eggs Must Be So Stamped

NEW YORK. —“Cold storage” will be the appetizing words that will confront you most of the time when you order “three soft boiled” for breakfast. “Cold storage” will mingle with your omelet; the shells from which emerge

your scrambled eggs will have been stamped “cold storage” • There are only 650.000,000 eggs in cold storage in New’ York, and thereabouts. Doubtless they are good eggs, but it is extremely impolite to ask a cold storage egg its age. So John J. Dillon, state commissioner of foods and markets, ruled recently that every such egg must- have stamped on it the words “cold storage.” The truly Important question is “Who, in obedience to Commissioner

Dillon’s order, vyill stamp the eggs?” Commission merchants who deal in eggs insist that the retailers, the little dairymen and delicatessen dealers must identify every one of the 650,000,000 eggs that come out of cold storage to the consumer. Perhap? the families of the delicatessen dealers and the growers would find .great happiness and enjoyment in imprinting J’cold storage’* on all such eggs.. Besides, the practice would teach the younger members of the family delicacy of touch. The Imprint must be made gently, very gently. Otherwise there would be need—in the case of some .eggs, or in some cases of eggs—-of gas ■masks, and gas masks are expensive. They are in much demand “somewhere” In every country that is fighting in Europe. The manufacturers of gas masks are making as much money as the capable and industrious hens are earning lor— not the farmers — but the commission merchants and the retailera.