Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1918 — ATTENTION ALL EGG DEALERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ATTENTION ALL EGG DEALERS

Memo for Federal Fqod Admlnistra- ' tors for Indiana Counties. Bulletin No. 111, June 1, 1018. Mr. John l£ger, Food Administrator Jasper Co. Rensselaer, Indiana. LICENSING EGG DEALERS The Egg and Poultry Division of the United States Food Administration has ruled that all wholesale dealers in poultry and eggs must be licensed. This requires all retail and country grocers and all hucksters who buy eggs from farmers for sale to shippers of commission men to secure a license. Please instruct dealers in your county to write the License Division, Law Department, U. S. Food Administration, Washington, D.MC., Immediately. By an agreement between the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Food Administration which has been adopted as a regulation in this state, all dealers must candle eggs. The case when shipped must contain a signed .certificate bearing the license number and showing the name of the candler and the date whesh the eggs were candled. Wholesale egg dealers are not permitted to buy eggs from unlicensed dealers nor will case eggs be allowed to be shipped unless the case contains the certificate. The certificates are printed by the Secretary of the Indiana Egg Dealers association and will be supplied the trade by the car lot shippers and wholesale dealers. Kindly advise all poultry men and farmers that they must sell only sound eggs. The sale of bad eggs is a violation of the pure food law of the state and the original producer will be held responsible under the law. The sale of eggs on the loss-off basis is abolished. The sale of candled eggs, properly certified, will, after June 15, the date of the taking effect of this regulation, be required in Indiana. Sincerely yours, H. E. BARNARD, Federal Food Administrator for Indiana.

Egg dealers in Jasper county will please take and apply for this license at once. JOHN EGER, County Food Administrator. The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. is the "economical place to buy your correspondence needs.

Every farmer who owns his farm ought to have printed stationer* with his name and the name of hlfl postofflee properly given. The prtn* ed heading might also give the names of whatever crops he special* izes in or his specialties In stock. Neatly printed stationery gives jam personality and a standing with an* person <f Arm to whom you write insures the proper reading ml your name and address.

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