COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. 63 
NATIONAL BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGG 
ASSOCIATION. 
The report of the Committee on Packing and 
Preserving Eggs: 
“Tt is very evident that the salvation, pros- 
perity and future confidence in this trade de- 
pends on substituting the weight of twenty-four 
ounces for ten eggs as a standard of quality or 
value, instead of counting as at present. 
“This is not all of it; for the more healthy 
Northern egg will greatly outsell the lighter, 
weaker and more sickly Southern egg. The old, 
dried-up, withered remnant of an egg, now so 
common, will not linger to plague the consumer 
and commission man. 
“Egos laid by birds and small guinea-hens 
will, when sold by actual weight, become a 
curiosity in the market instead of being as now 
often sold as a subterfuge for food.” 
