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spring they had laid away a very nice nest egg, some few 

 million cases, and between the wholesalers and the jobbers, 

 1 will say right here that the cold storage man never fooled 

 anybody on eggs, the fellow that buys from him knows what 

 he is buying. But suddenly eggs change from cold storage 

 lo fresh eggs and a friend of mine talking here today says 

 you can't work miracles. Why, the Saviour only changed 

 Avater to winej but these eggs all changed from cold st; rage 

 to fresh eggs in the twinkling of an eye, and the conermer 

 bought them at tlje fresh egg price. 



Prices were very high and the poor were anxious about 

 the winter and anxious about the cost of living; so we 

 started out and advertised that they must obey the law and 

 sell these eggs to the consumer for just what they were and 

 ii they did not sell cold storage eggs as cold storage eggs, 

 we would have them arrested and fined. Now our city 

 courts are very severe on these people when they are 

 brought in on these complaints. 



We went to the health department and in ten days the 

 jrrice of eggs was down ten cents a dozen to the consumer. 

 The State of New York used through October, November 

 and December, 125.000 cases of cold storage eggs a week, 

 that meant $3. a case; somebody bought those eggs for 

 .'1^375,000. a Aveek less than they Avould have bought for but 

 for us. 



The swindler helps nobody except the swindler and the 

 gambler and hurts the producer and the consumer. This 

 does not make the people in the egg business always happy. 

 They condemn the State for doing it and they tell the papers 

 that are abusing us. if you want our advertising very much 

 longer, you will have to get rid of those fellows. It is up 

 to the consumer and producer whether they want this kind 

 of Work carried on or whether they want our commission 

 and similar commissions in other states eliminated. 



I have given you the situation in New York. Possibly 

 ^\e are Avorse there than anywhere else, Ave haA^e the biggest 

 city, I believe Ave have the most dishonest people of any 



