. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 121 The Price of Eggs. It is with unmixed gladness that the thrifty housewife welcomes the advent of warmer days and the certainty of an in- creased egg yield when she orders '' three dozen fresh eggs, please," and the oblig- ing and smiling grocer replies, "Cer- tainly, $;—or if we have had two cold days, he makes it $ ; three cold days, $ It is astonishing how closely the hens in our part of the country watch the thermometer ! If one could insure his hens against roup and lea
. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 121 The Price of Eggs. It is with unmixed gladness that the thrifty housewife welcomes the advent of warmer days and the certainty of an in- creased egg yield when she orders '' three dozen fresh eggs, please," and the oblig- ing and smiling grocer replies, "Cer- tainly, $;—or if we have had two cold days, he makes it $ ; three cold days, $ It is astonishing how closely the hens in our part of the country watch the thermometer ! If one could insure his hens against roup and learn how to make each hen lay one egg a day through December, January and February, he need not sigh for the Midastouch, and " Easy Street " would have a new resi- dent. For several years at this season, the family has looked with suspicion at boiled eggs, for no matter if we paid 45 cents a dozen " guaranteed strictly fresh," there was a "been in cold storage six months" taste to them. Recently, when telephon- ing to the grocer for eggs, he replied in answer to a question about their fresh- ness, "Oh, there are no cold storage eggs. We have ; "How's that?" "There are none in the country — all used up," he said. And we gave thanks. For baking purposes, I am not pre- pared to say that cold storage eggs are not better than no eggs at all, but any one who has known how a really fresh egg tastes or who even remembers the eggs mother "laid down" for winter, can not eat a boiled storage egg. It seems ungrateful, I might say unbe- coming, to use a good, old-fashioned phrase, for me to say a word against the price of eggs. Thirty-five cents a dozen means a fine profit for poultrymen and poultry women — it means that still oth- ers will go into a health-giving, lucrative business. And we are glad. And we maintain that eggs at 35 cents a dozen are cheaper than meat and may be substi- tuted for meat with most g
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