Amefican A^iculturist, February 24,1923 
City Folks Tell Us 
Now Let’s Tell Them How To Do It 
D uring a recent By O. W 
two weeks’ visit to 
the Metropolis, I had a good chance to 
compare city life with life on the farm 
and also study some of the marketing 
problems as they affect farmers in gen¬ 
eral and poultrymen in particular. 
One of my first experiences was to > 
get caught in the famous New York 
rush-hour jam as I tried to board a 
subway car. I got caught with my 
i)ack to the wall as the trainman was 
trying to urge the. crowd in the door¬ 
way “forward please,” so as to be able 
to crowd in one more “fare,” meaning 
a nickel more in the treasury, until I 
had to push with all my might with 
both hands against the “fare” in front 
of me, who happened to be a, wmman, 
in order to prevent my ribs from being 
crushed. 
As I looked over that crowd, the 
thought occurred to me, “What a lot of 
Cheap Johns! Here they are going 
through this twice each day for the 
privilege of retaining a five-cent-fare 
rate. They insist on the privilege of 
riding all the way from Coney Island 
to the Bronx for a single nickel, includ- 
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from the point of the eggs, where 
breakage usually occurs, to the entire 
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locks each egg to the flat, so that it 
cannot shift on the flat from a lateral 
shock, and each egg receives only the 
shock caused by its own weight. 
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Products Corporation, with a factory 
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belongs to another man by the .name 
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in them with practically no reports of 
loss by breakage. The eggs are packed 
in the thin standard cases in general 
use here. 
I heard of one exporter who packed 
a thousand cases, one-half in the usual 
heavy export cases and the other half 
with the new flats and in thin cases, 
and he reports that the latter arrived 
in perfect condition, while there was 
serious breakage in the lot packed in 
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packing of about four cents per dozen. 
The difference in profit, including both 
the cost of repacking in the heavy 
cases and the breakage, amounted to 
over $1,100 in favor of the 500 cases 
packed in the new flats. He has since 
exported 2,000 cases all packed in the 
new flats, and had another orden for 
2,500 cases to be shipped at once. 
If European markets for storage 
eggs can thus be brought about 7 cents 
per dozen nearer to our doors, and the 
amount added to our tariff wall, egg 
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{Continued on page 171) 
ing a passage under the East River, 
through a tunnel built at enormous 
cost. If they would be satisfied to call 
it a ride after they are carried under 
the river, and pay another nickel for 
the privilege of continuing on to the 
Bronx or to the beach, pi’ohably 20 
miles in all, at least, the company 
would have funds with which to pro¬ 
vide better accommodations, even on 
the present lines.” 
Suppose the station platform were 
made tv/ice as long and the trains made 
twice as long. What would happen? 
The tracks must be strong enough to 
carry an express train of 20 cars just 
as safely as ten car^. ’ The rails of our 
cross-country railroad lines carry 50 
or more cars with their heavy steam 
locomotives. The time lost between 
trains for safety sake, need be little, if 
any more, for a long train than for a 
short train. 
Give the lines sufficient revenue and 
they could soon double the carrying- 
capacity of the present subways and 
|urface lines by running more cars 
pnd longer trains. 
I In the Egg Mai-ket 
One of the points which interested 
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around Reade Street, where the white 
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of most of the supply of these eggs at 
a public auction three times a week 
seems to be meeting with much favor, 
^amples of each lot are put on display 
cor an hour before the auction begins, 
Where prospective buyers can examine 
them. 
Many of the eggs are sold on trucks, 
standing in the street at the front, 
ready for immediate delivery anywhere 
m a given area, and many “on the 
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