STORING SURPLUS EGGS 125 
the prevailing price may be. It is a pity that 
the producer who has his money invested in 
hens and equipment and who devotes all the 
year to their attention must sell at 18 to 20 
cents during the flush time to speculators 
who hold the eggs for five or six months in 
cold storage at a slight cost outside their 
money invested, and who then sell at 28 to 
30 cents. 
One spring my production ran beyond my 
market at fair prices so I located a storage 
house near-by and sent my eggs which were 
only one to three days old, into storage to be 
held for my own account. I accumulated 63 
crates which were held in storage 2 months 
on the average and sold them at 30 cents a 
dozen, instead of the 18 or 20 cents which 
was the prevailing price during April and 
May. The cost a dozen including new crates, 
expressage and storage was 3% cents a 
dozen. You see where the dealer who keeps 
and places eggs in a storage house makes his 
profits. 
Putting eggs into cold storage, should be 
however, the last resort of the egg farmer 
because it would necessitate tying up capital 
for which there is plenty of need in the 
spring. 
