Missouri Home Makers' Conference. 611 



LOSS FROM BAD EGGS. 



Missouri farmers lose nearly three million dollars annually 

 on bad eggs. It is just as easy to market good eggs as bad 

 eggs. You can not only save this tremendous loss to yourself, 

 but you can improve the quality of the product and thereby 

 increase the price and also your profits by giving a little closer 

 attention to the market end. You can also increase consump- 

 tion by marketing a better article. Most of this three million 

 dollar loss on eggs is caused by farmers marketing fertile eggs 

 during the hot summer months. Keep the males from your 

 flock of layers in summer months and you are marketing, in- 



Good, clean, fresh eggs of uniform size and color always command a good price. 



fertile eggs which as a rule will not decay. The hens will lay 

 just as many eggs. The germ in the fertile egg develops on the 

 road to market to such an extent that it is unfit for food. But 

 an infertile egg remains wholesome for a much longer period 

 of time, and simply dries up, as a rule, instead of decaying. 

 The eastern buyers have learned that one out of nearly every 

 five eggs from Missouri is a bad egg, and they make the price 

 to Missouri farmers accordingly. Farmer friends, let's help 

 save this $3,000,000 each year by keeping males out of our laying 

 pens. 



Mr. and Mrs. Farmer, give the hens a chance and they 

 will help lift the mortgages from your farms and help swell 

 your bank accounts. 



