Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — Barnard After Bad Eggs. [ARTICLE]

Barnard After Bad Eggs.

Food and Drug Commissioner H. E. Barnard is paying much attention these days to the condition of Indiana eggs. It is his purpose to put an end to the sale of eggs that have failed to hatch in incubators and under the “setting hen.” The first conviction ever secured was of a farmer at Peru who was fined $lO and costs last week for selling rotten eggs to a grocer. "The man we want,” said Mr. Barnard, “ is the man who sells the eggs the first time. The grocer isn’t so ■a much to blame. This is the time of incubation, and eggs which fail to hatch are unloaded on the retailers, and the consumer pays for it. It is about this time of the year that the exploring* farmer boy finds the nest of eggs in the hay mow and the eggs are unloaded on the innocent public.

“The only way the problem can be solved is by the insistence of the consumer that he be sent nothing but candled eggs. It is an easy matter to candle eggs and it can be done at small cost. Candling is sure to keep bad eggs out of the maket. If it catches only one egg out of the dozen it is worth the cost.”

The law provides that “it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or offer for sale any eggs after the same have been placed in an incubator, or to sell or offer for sale, knowingly, eggs in a rotten, deca>ed or decaying condition to be used for food.” Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures Itching, bleeding or protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store.

United States District Attorney C. W. Miller, of Indianapolis, was in Laporte Saturday tOdeliver a check for $13,000 to Dr. J. H. William Meyer. is In payment for the site of the new federal building which is to be erected in Laporte next spring.