Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1918 — NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ANY “BAD EGGS” NOW [ARTICLE]

NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ANY “BAD EGGS” NOW

i The recent order of the food administration, making it compulsory for all wholesale poultry dealers to candle eggs before their sale, will prove of benefit not only to the wholesaler but also to the retailer and to the consumer, according to local poultrymen. There was a time when both the merchant and the consumer were sorely tried with eggs that were “over the line,”/ figuratively speaking. So frequently did the buyer find that a part and sometimes no inconj siderable part, of the winter eggs, cold storage, and the summer eggs, supposedly fresh, were bad, that he began to believe that stale eggs were present in every dozen on the market. This not only producd a strained relation between buyer and seller, but it also tended toward a condir tion that was wasteful. Now ail this has been abolished. The egg, cold storage, and that sup- ; posedly 1 resh, has had its slate wiped 1 clean. No longer is there any excuse for the “bad egg.” For, with the slightest care in candling, the eggs may be separated, the spoiled from the good, and the former sent to the garbage can. In fact, one local poultryman says that now “there is no more excuse for the rotten egg than there is for the rotten apple.” Every egg is candled on receipt in the wholesale house, the farmer being paid only for those that are good, and when later the eggs are packed, the name of the candler is attached to the case. If one of the candled eggs proves bad then the candler has been a poor workman, and wholesale dealers aver that little leniency may be expected by the one at fault. One of the advantages of the candling system, it is pointed out, is that it will make it impossible for the consumer to demand of his grocer to make good eggs which possibly have been bad only in imagination. The grocer has suffered much loss in this way, it is said. Now there, is no guess work in the matter, and the seller may feel certain -that hie produce was good. On the other hand it also will prevent the retailer, were he so inclined, from selling stale eggs for fresh.