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age, will be found unimpaired in flavor and indis- 

 tinguishable from that of freshly killed birds. 



EGG MARKETING METHODS 



Selling eggs is one of the handiest ways to gtt 

 a cash or trade return for farm produce, and wher- 

 ever farmers can increase the efficiency of the ma- 

 chinery which produces and handles eggs, they will 

 put hard cash into their pockets. In Kansas, which 

 may be taken as one of the typical egg-producing 

 states, the methods in vogue are generally bad. In 

 order to determine how im- 

 provements could be made, 

 A. G. Phillips sent a long 

 list of questions to more 

 than 70 egg handlers for 

 comments. They repre- 

 sented an estimated annual 

 output of over 900,000 cases 

 of eggs. Thirty-three of 

 these men purchased by the op^'^^fo t^e pouury^ara 

 method called "case count" ^^^ eStevT''^ ^''"' ^^"^ 

 the year round. Forty do not. 



By case count is meant that eggs are counted just 

 as they are received. During hot weather, that is 

 between July and September, the usual plan is to 

 buy " loss off; " though some buy in this way from 

 May until December. The term " loss oS " means 

 that inferior and cracked eggs are not paid for. 

 When eggs are bought in the loss-ofif way, a dif- 

 ference of I to 5 cents in price is made, the average 

 being about 2 cents. 



During the hottest month 58 buyers purchased 

 100,000 cases or more. During that month the 



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