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A TRADE IN “FANCY EGGS.” 
Drafts in the Poultry House. 
I am working up a small one-man fruit 
and poultry place here, pushing the fruit 
principally, but have a flock of about 200 
Leghorns from which I should be able to 
eggs by March. I got’a thousand 
cartons holding one dozen each and printed 
with name of my plant, and witli seals 
bearing my written signature, guaranteeing 
eggs unfertilized and date laid, these t« 
pack in ordinary cases in place of the ordi¬ 
nary fillers. So far my experience in try¬ 
ing to find a market is peculiar. I knew 
that a high-class grocer used this grade of 
eggs in their retail stores and wrote them. 
They said they had a contract to get all 
eggs from an egg buyer, and referred my 
letter to them. This firm writes they will 
take my eggs, but not in sealed cartons 
with date laid. Only want them in ordi¬ 
nary trade crates and fillers. I took up 
the advertisements in Thk K. N.-Y., but 
all say practically the same. I know that 
guaranteed fresh unfertilized eggs are sold 
in the city at all times at top prices. I 
know the thing to do is to work up a 
private trade to retailer or consumer, but 
to hold that requires a larger flock than I 
ba\e or am likely to have for some time, 
as I am going to discard Leghorns and 
breed Hondans exclusively, and it will take 
two or three years to work up to a thou¬ 
sand of them, which is about the lowest 
number that would enable one to get and 
hold a private trade. Now I have these 
carriers on hand and want to sell the eggs 
to the trade, and so far it seems the trade 
does not want them. My guarantee is good 
on these packages. H , j. M 
Ulooinsburg, Pa. 
It is true that most dealers do not 
care to receive eggs put up in this man¬ 
ner. One reason is that many poultry- 
men are not careful enough. A de¬ 
fective egg gets into a carton, and 
then there is trouble. Hence it hap¬ 
pens that the really careful man, with 
a product that lie knows is all right, 
meets the rebuffs mentioned. Dating 
eggs is a doubtful practice unless the 
seller is certain to dispose of them at 
once. An egg a week ok 10 days old 
by the date looks much worse to the 
customer than if unmarked. The dat¬ 
ing would better be omitted until the 
private trade referred to by IT. M. is 
secured, and then it will probably be 
fomui unnecessary, as the confidence 
that makes such trade possible and 
valuable comes from the character of 
the eggs rather than a date stamped 
on them. 
I here is a decided misconception 
about New York as a market for fancy 
products. Some appear to think that 
there are three millions of people here 
who will pay 60 cents per dozen for 
CKgs, and other things in proportion, if 
they could only get them of the desired 
quality. Comparatively few of the 
fancy eggs, etc., received here sell at 
such prices, because the people cannot 
afford to and will not pay them. Dur¬ 
ing the past season of high egg prices 
it has been possible every week day in 
New \ ork to buy large white eggs, 
less than a week old, in single dozens, 
at five to 10 cents per dozen less than 
the prices so widely boomed and ex¬ 
ploited. Would those eggs have been 
sold at such discount had there been 
a ready market for them at higher 
prices ? 
It is true that in many sections of 
the city it is impossible to get the kind 
A short time ago a correspondent of 
The R. N.-Y. wrote that he was having 
trouble from drafts in a long poultry 
house with a number of large windows 
in it which were kept open. To obviate 
this difficulty it will be necessary to 
have partitions in the house at least 
every 20 feet. These may be made of 
boards half way, and muslin the rest. 
A hole for the hens to pass through 
gives them the entire house to run in 
the same as if there were no partitions. 
I lie reason of the drafts is because the 
pressure of the wind is not the same 
over the entire front. This is well 
illustrated by the fact that you can¬ 
not blow into a small necked bottle be¬ 
cause your mouth covers the entire 
opening and there is no way for the 
air in the bottle to escape; but try 
blowing into a fruit jar and you find 
a difference; your mouth cannot cover 
the entire opening (that is I think it 
cannot), so the pressure forces some 
of the air in the jar out at one side 
and lets in the air from your lungs, 
causing a draft inside the jar. The 
model open-air house is one that is 
deeper from front to rear than it is 
wide, or else has part of the front 
boarded up, so as to make it more 
bottle shaped. gf.o. a. cosgrove. 
Buff Plymouth Rocks. 
I was very much pleased to rend tlio ogg 
record of Mrs. D. It. McC.’s “Good Ohio 
Hens," page 213. But the thing that 
pleased me most was the fart that the rec¬ 
ord was made by Buff' Plymouth Itoeks. 
Here is one of the best fowls bred to¬ 
day, a fowl for the farmer, fancier, or city 
lot breeder, wonderful Winter layers of 
large brown eggs; grand broilers and roast¬ 
ers, and for beauty, there is not a fowl that 
enters the show room that enn outdo them. 
I have had visitors here at my place ask 
me what breed of fowl “those great big 
beauties" were, and upon being told they 
were Buff Plymouth Rocks, would invari¬ 
ably exclaim, “Why, I never heard of them 
before, but must surely have a pen of them 
or some eggs for hatching.” This is the 
only drawback the variety has. They are 
not widely known. They haven’t been 
boomed. They haven’t had $5,000 spent in 
advertising and booming them in one year, 
as some breeds have, and tiiis by one 
breeder too! The trouble witli the Ameri¬ 
can people to-day is that they are always 
clamoring after something new. This ap¬ 
plies to almost everything. There is many 
a good thing passed by and this includes 
poultry. But the Buff Plymouth Rocks are 
corning to the front rapidly. At the last 
Boston show they ranked second in num¬ 
bers, only being beaten by the White Wyan- 
dottes, there being 240 Wyandottes and 233 
Buff Rocks. This means that there were 
more Buff Rocks shown than any of the 
other Rocks, Leghorns or even the great 
heralded Reds and Orpingtons! Surely tills 
speaks well of the breed. The word Ply¬ 
mouth Rock is magnificent in itself, but 
when prefixed by the word Buff, it is all the 
moro so, for it brings to one's mind a fowl 
with all the good qualities of the old reli¬ 
able Plymouth Rock, with the beautiful huff 
color added. 
* As a general purpose fowl, none can excel 
them. They possess all the requirements of 
a good market fowl, having clear yellow 
legs and skin, a plump carcass, with no ill- 
looking black or white pin feathers. From 
the egg to the adult fowl, they are healthy, 
vigorous and extremely hardy. As egg pro¬ 
ducers they are superior to any of the larger 
breeds. In conclusion would say I have 
stilted the good points of the Buff Plymouth 
Rocks as I have found them after 10 years’ 
experience, and if you are desirous of start¬ 
ing with a new variety and do not know 
what to take up, you will make no mistake 
in tying to the Buff Plymouth, Rock. 
New Jersey. a. h. vukki.and. 
of eggs II. M. purposes to supply. The 
local dealer cannot afford to carry 
them in stock where only one out of 
100 of his customers would use them. 
These scattering customers must either 
buy in other parts of the city or wait 
until parcels post or some other form 
of direct dealing makes such trade pos¬ 
sible. There are within 100 miles of 
New York many poultry farms run 
for the purpose of securing the most 
expensive trade in the city. Those 
two or three hundred miles away may 
well consider the possibilities within 
their own 100-mile radius before at¬ 
tempting to compete for this farther 
away trade. Net, not gross, results are 
what count. If a $1 sale near home 
nets more than a $1.25 or $1.50 sale 
at a distance, it is not hard to see where 
the field of profit is. 
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