Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — Nationality of Eggs. [ARTICLE]

Nationality of Eggs.

Is it possible to tell the nationality of an egg by inspection? The question is raised in acute ferm by the evidence given by the prosecution of a Lancashire, England, firm for selling Russian eggs as Irish, which resulted in (acquittal. The experts varied, as even experts will. One confidently pronounced the eggs in question Russians nearly five weeks old; another said they were second class Russians; a third specified the south of Russia. t On the other hand, experts, for the defense werq equally positive that nobody could tell the birthplace of an egg from external examination. One witness said that when, eggs were bad their nationality Was indeterminable. On the whole, one is bound to come to the conclusion that the average purchaser of eggs must take their nationality upon trust.