Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — TRUST CONTROLS EGG MARKET [ARTICLE]

TRUST CONTROLS EGG MARKET

Small Dealers Charge lleef Comb ne with Having a Monopoly. Kansas City, Mo., special: The big packing-houses have made such inroads into the business of packing and shipping eggs and poultry for consumption in eastern markets, that the business of the small shippers in this part of the west is threatened with destruction, according to members of the Produce Dealers’ Association of Kansas and Oklahoma, which met here to consider the situation. John S„tewart of Concordia, Kan., president of the association, said: “The packers are so firmly intrenched that I do not believe we can do much to oppose them. I do not know whether the recent operations of the big dealers could be called a corner or not. However, I do know that four big firms have stored 144,000,000 eggs, or 400,000 cases. At this time last year more than 1,000,000,000 eggs, or 3,000,000 cases, were in cold storage. There will be fewer eggs stored this year, because the prices are higher.”