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important of these was the adoption by the Kansas car-lot shippers 

 of the loss-off system of buying and selling eggs. The immediate 

 effect of this system was a marked improvement in the quality of 

 Kansas eggs, and this was so apparent to the men engaged in han- 

 dling them that they became intensely interested in the bureau's work 

 and voluntarily offered their assistance in every possible way. 



EXTENSION OF THE MOVEMENT TO OTHEK STATES. 



As a result of its success during the past summer, the loss-oil' system 

 of buying has become more firmly established in Kansas. It al-o led 

 to a meeting at Kansas City, on December 20, 11)10, of the State pure- 

 food officials from Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Okla- 

 homa, with a committee of car-lot shippers of eggs, to discuss the 

 matter of administration and the enactment of suitable legislation. 

 It is believed that the Kansas hrw may be improved upon so that the 

 work may be made more effective, and for the purpose of enacting 

 uniform legislation in the States represented the following bill was 

 drafted at the meeting for recommendation to the respective legisla- 

 tures of the States represented : 



AN ACT For the protection of public health and the prevention of fraud l>y regulating 

 the sale of eggs for food purposes, providing penalties for the violation thereof, and 

 providing for the enforcement thereof. 



lie It enacted by the Legislature <>f Hie Mate <,f Knnxa*: 



SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation engaged 

 in the buying and shipping of eggs, to buy. sell, barter, trade, or deliver, or to 

 offer to buy, sell, barter, trade, or deliver any eggs for food purposes between 

 the 1st day of June and the 31st day of December of each year, without first 

 candling said eggs, or causing the same to be candled: and any such person, 

 linn, or corporation who shall buy, sell, barter, trade, or deliver, or offer to buy, 

 sell, barter, trade, or deliver any such eggs without first candling the same, or 

 causing the same to be candled, and without first removing all decayed, de- 

 comiK)sed, and spot eggs from those candled, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 

 and punished as hereinafter provided. 



SEC. 2. The word "candle." as used herein, shall be construed to mean the 

 examination of eggs by means of natural or artificial light, in such a manner as 

 to disclose to the person examining the same whether the eggs so examined are 

 decayed, decomposed, or spot eggs. 



SKC. 3. That the State board of health is authorized and directed to make and 

 publish uniform rules and regulations, not in conllict with the laws of this 

 State, for carrying out the provisions of this act. Any person who shall violate 

 any of the rules and regulations so made, and published in the ollicial State 

 paper, shall be deemed guilty of n misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be 

 punished by a fine of not less than dollars, or more than dollars. 



Si:c. 4. That a case of eggs shall contain :?o do/en, and it shall not be con- 

 sidered as a violation of this act for any person, firm, or corporation to buy or 

 sell, or offer to buy or sell, any case of eggs for food purposes that does not con- 

 lain more than -I per cent of decayed, decomposed, or spot eggs. 



