Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1875 — Eggs by Weight. [ARTICLE]

Eggs by Weight.

Easter lias gone, and with the advancing season eggs have cheapened, and we are again reminded 1 to urge a change in the system of selling them. It is altogether fairer to sell ami buy hv the pound than by the dozen. In this market eggs vary in size so that *ne might, by sorting, separate a quantity of eggs into two lots, one of which would average say nine or even ten to the pound, while the other might average no more than seven. Now j twelve dozen of the small ones will weigh about l-! 1 ., pounds, while the large ones will weigh about 20% pounds, and that is not a just basis for trade. To be sure it may be said that general average corrects irregularities, hut where is the advantage in trusting to chance when so simple a remedy as the standard scale is at hand ? The adoption of this system is merely a question of time, not only as regards eggs, but as regards wood aud other articles of common consumption. Time was when dressed liogs sold so much per animal without regard to the size and condition, but such arule would not work well at present. Perhaps, too, by the time eggs are weighed, the pound of to-day will have given way to a measure of weight gauged to a sensible and convenient decimal system like that of the French. Such a system, by the way, is lawful now if people would only insist upon usingit. It is taught to children in the best schools, and a generation hence the present complicated tables of weights and measures will he forgotten.— Christian Union.