52 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



question of a " fresh egg," everyone, almost, becomes 

 a fakir. The grocers, many of them, buy case after 

 case of storage eggs, and, when the retail price reaches 

 sixty-five cents a dozen for so called " fresh eggs," 

 they are supplying all buyers with the cold storage 

 product, in quantities practically unlimited. Their 

 counters are always decorated with baskets of these 

 "just laid, perfectly fresh eggs." 



Therefore, it becomes necessary for the Egg Farmer 

 to satisfy customers, beyond perad venture, as to his 

 ability to himself supply the goods which he contracts 

 to deliver, and after once doing this his experience 

 will be the same as that of The Corning Egg Farm, 

 not to be able to keep' and properly look after enough 

 hens to turn out half the eggs he could sell at profita- 

 ble prices, because the price he asks does not dis- 

 courage customers who are willing to pay well for a 

 really satisfactory article. 



The following is the basis on which The Corning 

 Egg Farm makes all its contracts for table eggs. 



