74 THIRTY CENT BREAD 



them over to the jobbers who will sell them to the 

 retailer at from 48 to 53 cents a dozen. The poorest 

 of them will be sold to the consumer at from 60 to 

 65 cents a dozen and the best of them at from 85 

 cents to $1 a dozen. 



§ 51 — PEDSIRAL CONTROL 



These plain, unvarnished truths urge the federal 

 commissioner of agriculture to extend his efforts to 

 control a grave and intolerable situation consider- 

 ably beyond the appeal which he has already made 

 to the patriotism of the farmer and egg gambler. 



The use of tons of spot eggs by pound cake bakers 

 all over the country is one of the lamentable results 

 of the failure of the federal government to attempt 

 to control the slovenly and destructive system now 

 employed in gathering, storing, and shipping eggs 

 for market. The consumption of disguised rotten 

 eggs by the public grows out of these wasteful 

 methods. 



The beginning of the trouble lies in the rules gov- 

 erning transactions in eggs in the mercantile ex- 

 changes of our large American cities. 



These rules are so wide open that they admit to 

 congested centers tons of rotten eggs which ought 

 never to arrive and which the receiver who is obliged 

 to pay for them charges up to the consumer. 



§ 52 — MANIPULATION 



For instance, the regulations governing the classi- 

 fication known as "fresh gathered firsts" permit a 

 case of such eggs to contain only 80 per cent, of full 



