CREAMERY MARKETS EGGS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3320, 12 September 1911, Page 2

CREAMERY MARKETS EGGS.

■ in.- ■ i ■" -- ■ A VALUABLE SIDELINE. A creamery in Northern Minnesota lias inaugurated a system of marketing the eggs of its dairy patron®. As the farmers make frequent and regular' trips to tho creamery, it is found that their eggs cam be handled very advantageously, and that they can be put on tho maikt while fresh. At present about 135 farmers are disposing of their eggs through the creamery. They pledge themselves to deliver eggs to. the creamery that are less than eight days old, having been gathered twice a day. The eggs are to be uniform in • size clean, assorted, and marked as to, colour and kept- in a cool dry cellar while at the farm. The creamery trademark is stamped on the side of each egg and on top of each carton. The stamp issued to each patron, contains, besides the creamery name and brand, the serial number of the producer. so that a.ny complaint about the eggs can be readily lodged against tine farm from which they came. The eggs are packed at the farm in one-dozen size pasteboard egg boxes, or cartons, which are so shaped that they may bo packed in a. regular 30-dozen egg case. As the eggs are gathered each day, the clean, good-sized eggs are stamped and placed in them. When a carton is filled it is stamped on its upper side just the same as the eggs. When the farmer conies into the creamery with his milk or cream lie brings along as many cartons or dozens of eggs as lie has. The mam in charge of the creamery takes these eggs, examines the package®, and elves tho farmer a check for the eggs delivered that day. The cartons are then packed in substantial returnable 30-clozen egg-cases and shipped to by express. The shipping charges are paid by the consignee. The labour and cost of handling the eggs at the creamery are thus reduced to a minimum.

Reliance is placed on the farmer to bring in good eggs. The farmer in turn feels bound to bo particular, knowing that any carelessness, can be traced back to him, and realising that he thus jeopardises his chances of continuing to dispose of Iris eggs in this manner.