The Farm-poultry . certain are not invariable weights, but limits are fixed .?othat the weight of a case containing a given number ofeggs indicates the size of the eggs. It seems improbablethat the retailing of eggs by weight will come into usehere, at least not for a long time, because in nearly allthe common uses of eggs, number, not weight of eggs isconsidered. To some extent size and weight are taken into accoimtin retail sales of eggs. The writer has sometimes heardpeople comment sarcastically on the prices and signsnoted on diflerent lots of eggs in the same grocery orprov
The Farm-poultry . certain are not invariable weights, but limits are fixed .?othat the weight of a case containing a given number ofeggs indicates the size of the eggs. It seems improbablethat the retailing of eggs by weight will come into usehere, at least not for a long time, because in nearly allthe common uses of eggs, number, not weight of eggs isconsidered. To some extent size and weight are taken into accoimtin retail sales of eggs. The writer has sometimes heardpeople comment sarcastically on the prices and signsnoted on diflerent lots of eggs in the same grocery orprovision store: Fresh eggs 25 cents a dozen. Fresheggs perhaps as low as 18 cents a dozen. The differencein these lots in some instances certainly was not in qual-ity, but in size. On one occasion a clerk selected a dozeneggs from each of several lots and weighed them for ns,also weighing some eggs we had just sent in. Our eggsweighed more than twice as much as the lowest pricedeggs there, and sold Rear View of Row of CtAonia of IVhiU RochBpriager Bros., Bridgeton, N. J. Editorial Page of Far m - P o ultry A Neglected Field. READER, did you ever notice that with all tiic organizations, associations, clubs,societies, etc., of poultrynien, there is one kind of association we dont liave —associations of originators of special ideas in poultry culture, or to make it alittle broader, promoters of special ideas ? The writer is not clear in his own mind as to whether he would get into any associa-tion of originators, but the other term would let him in on several — hence his prefer-ence for it. As we review our record as promoter we observe that our efforts in that line havebeen mostly in the way of advocating returns to older methods — reactions from theextremes into which ideas deemed progressive a decade ago were leading we review the course of others interested in promoting the same ideas, we are struckwitii the general fact of a lack of sympathy
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