Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — EGG PRICE SET AT 40 CENTS [ARTICLE]

EGG PRICE SET AT 40 CENTS

Dr. .H. E. Barnard Fixes 'Retail Maximum for Indiana. Forty cents a dozen was set Thursday as the maximum reasonable price for first class cold storage eggs by Dr. H. E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana. According to Dr. Barnard retailers from now on will be able to obtain storage eggs for 35 cents a dozen and he believes 5 cents a dozen to be a liberal profit. Some reports have come to Dr. Barnard’s office to the effect that a few retailers are selling storage eggs as fresh eggs. These reports are being investigated and, if found true, prosecutions under the state law will follow, while licensed wholesalers selling storage eggs as fresh will be prosecuted under the new federal food law. In Rensselaer storage eggs have been retailing during the ipast week at 42 cents a dozen, allowing the dealer a profit of 7 cents. Dr. Barnard has called upon housewives to report to him any poultry dealer selling chickens or other poultry with full crops. It has been customary, according to Dr. Barnard, to feed poultry from a quarter to half a pound of cornmeal, corn and gravel before weighing and to charge the consumer 25 cents a pound for this.