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Delegate: Is there not some danger in a time limit of twelve 

 months? 



Mr. Horne : The producer storing these products will take them out 

 when he has the call for them. He will not take them out when he is to 

 compete with the fresh product. That is not done at all. 



Delegate: For example, if the time limit was twelve months, 

 wouldn't he be compelled to do that? 



Mr. Horne: As a matter of fact he is not asked to do that. It is 

 unnecessary. 



Delegate : I think the time limit in the law construed to mean that 

 anything is unfit for food after it has passed the time limit, is vicious and 

 unreasonable in every particular, and should be repealed. 



Delegate: Don't it make any difference what time the goods are 

 put in? Are not goods put in in May better at the end of nine months 

 than when put in at the end of July or August? 



Mr. Horne: An April egg I should say ten or eleven months in 

 storage, would be better than an egg stored in July or August. I should 

 say that eggs shouldn't be kept so long. 



Delegate : Why wouldn't a ninety-day bill reduce the cost of these 

 prices? I would like to know why it wouldn't. 



Mr. Horne: The product would be in excess at a time when there 

 was not the demand for them. The farmers would go out of that line 

 of business. There would be a dearth when wanted, and an increase in 

 prices for a long time. It would be perfectly illegal, and as a matter of 

 fact wouldn't be feasible, couldn't be done. 



Delegate : Do you mean the farmers would stop raising the product? 



Mr. Horne : Yes. 



Delegate: You spoke of seasonal storage. If you put' in April eggs, 

 the prices are the same to remain there to January? But if you take out 

 the April eggs and put in others in August you got two seasons' storage 

 to pay. 



Mr. Horne: Eggs stored in August would command a monthly rate. 



Delegate : When does that rate cease or begin? 



Mr. Horne: That is purely a matter of private contract between 

 the cold-storage man and the dealer. A large amount of storage is done 

 in the spring. Summer storage is another matter. 



Mr. Brown: In regard to the statistics about material bemg 

 marketed, substantially all of it within ten months, what was the starting 

 month? 



Mr. Horne: Those figures begin with the egg year in the case ol 

 eggs. These figures were reported by the Department of Agriculture. 

 That is, I assume, where we got those figures. 



