fShe RURAL N£W-YORKER 
prices? Ou the other liand, prices are 
higher, and with no hope in view of their 
being lowered. With feed prices as they 
are, eggs for no uiiparent reason whatever 
h.ave taken a drop of 15) cents per dozen, 
from January 24 to present date, Febru¬ 
ary S. What is’ tlie cause for all of this? 
On poultry farms during this perio<l there 
was hai’dly any ijorease in egg pi’oduc- 
tion w'orth noting. This brings me to the 
one important question: Who lixes the 
price for eggs in New York (’ity? Is the 
price regulated by sutijdy and demand, 
or is the i)riee fixed by tin* t'gg specu¬ 
lators. who at this time of year begin to 
run down the price of eggs .so that by 
Sjiring tliey can be bought cheaply by 
the speculators, placed in cold storage, 
and then sold at a high price to con¬ 
sumers this Fall? Some commission men, 
too. are guilty of this same thing. The 
argument that Falifornia eggs are pour¬ 
ing into New York is all a myth, as far 
as great numbers are concerned. To off¬ 
set such a statement I have but to ask. 
how is it that since the war began the 
majority of poultrymen in the vicinity of 
New York in trying to ship their eggs 
into the city have case after case broken 
and sma.shed uji; to say nothing of some 
dishonest exjiress employees who open a 
case and take out two or three dozen 
eggs? Some cases of eggs never reach 
their destination, and all within a radius 
of a hundred miles of New York City. 
If all of this hapjiens to our Eastern 
eggs, no one knows what happens to the 
California eggs, which must travel about 
3.000 miles before reaching New York 
City. The egg spe<*ulators are only hurt¬ 
ing themselves, for as time goes ou more 
and more poultrymen and farmers will go 
out of business. During the Spring of 
1917 this poultry farm hatched out 
30.000 chicks; many of these chicks went 
to farmers, many of them were kept at 
home and raised to broiler age; besides 
carrying a good-sized dock of hen and 
pullets. At the present writing the plant 
IS almost closed down (February 8), 
having only enough breeding stock on 
baud to start up, should conditions war¬ 
rant. This is only one case out of many. 
This time la.st year incubators were run¬ 
ning, this year no incubators are run¬ 
ning, nor are eggs being saved to put in 
them. 
The wrtier has; attended many poultry 
meetings during the Winter, and the key¬ 
note of all meetings has been, “Produce 
more poultry and eggs,” “Uncle Sara 
needs millions of eggs.” It sounds vei*y 
nice to hear those great poultry orators 
tell you what a hen ought to do. Rut 
the hen has a mind of her own, and she 
does not forget to exerci.se it, too, no 
matter what the price of feed is. 
Any poultryman, after hearing these 
great orations, has only to go back to his 
plant and count the co.st of feed, the over¬ 
head charges, no salary for himself, and 
finally the price he receives for his eggs. 
You can legislate all you want; send all 
kinds of committees to the Food Admin¬ 
istration ; imss rny laws you want and 
read about 300-egg hens; but you cannot 
get peo|)le to produce and manufacture 
articles at a loss. 
During the mouths of November and 
Deccmiber of T917 it cost the poultrymen 
here in the East about three dollars for 
every dozen eggs produced, although in 
returns the poultrymen received from 75 
to 80 cents per dozen; and now as the 
Spring is about to approach, dishonest 
egg speculators are booming up to run 
down the price in order that they may 
increase all the more to their large b.ank 
accounts. We poultrymen have only the 
Spring months to make up for those 
.$3 eggs produced in November and De¬ 
cember. In fact CUT living is based on 
what we get for our eggs during the 
Spring months. Of course poultrymen 
expect a drop in the egg market toward 
the approach of Spring; but we do not 
expect such wholesale drops as have been 
going on during the i)ast two weeks. The 
egg speculators are a wise set; they know 
that if eggs remain at 50 cents per dozen 
all through the Spring months, they dare 
put but mighty few if any in cold stor¬ 
age. Why? Recause the (x>nsumer won’t 
pay the price for them during Fall and 
Winter. Hence it is the desire of these 
speculators to rush the price of eggs 
down as low as possible, regardless of 
sui)ply and demand. Right here the 
writer wishes to quote a few words from 
an article in “The Country Gentleman” 
of February 2, 1918, entitled “Fighting 
the Egg Speculator”: 
“Some four or five years ago the San 
Francisco dealers manipulated the price 
until it was down to 18 and 17 cents per 
dozen. Poultrymen got mad. They or¬ 
ganized a poultry federation and offered 
to buy eggs for 21 cents. Those fellows 
down in San Francisco took the hint. 
They loved the federation as a wolf loves 
a lamb. Rather than see the poultrymen 
grow and become powerful they lifted 
their |)rice to 21 cents and higher.” Of 
course manipulation went on just the 
same, but the f.'derafion had the effect 
of stabling the price of eggs, and more so 
after the federation had bought a seat in 
the exchange. 
It appears to me that the poultrymen 
of New York. Pennsylvania and New 
Jersey could federate themselves, have 
their own commission house, and if need 
be a seat on the exchange. All nearby 
hennery eggs would be sent to one central 
point. Such a procedure would straighten 
out very much the wide fluctuations in 
the ))rice of eggs from day to day. The 
writer would be glad to have the ideas 
of other poultrymen sent in. 
Monmouth Co., N. .1, c. li. CHANDLER. 
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