Preparation of Eggs for Market
If high prices are to be obtained for eggs they must not only be good,
but have a look of “class,” to the would be purchaser. They must be
spotlessly clean, and, as far as possible, each dozen should present a
uniform appearance.
One is able to know each day the exact price of the class of eggs which
he is selling, for the Egg Market is like the Stock or Bond Market, and
one who is in the Egg business is dealing with a commodity which at all
times is salable at a price. At The Corning Egg Farm we receive daily
the reports from the Exchange, as given in the _New York Commercial_.
These are cut out and placed in a scrap book, so that, from year to
year, we are able to tell exactly what the conditions were on any given
date, and form a very close idea as to what can be expected in regard
to prices. And so we have an absolute basis of prices for contracts.
The nearest quotation to the egg which is produced by The Corning Egg
Farm is what is termed “State Pa. and nearby Hennery, white, fancy,
large.” This we take as a basis and arrange our prices from it daily,
adding the advance which the Corning sanitary table egg brings.
[Illustration: 30 DOZEN CORNING SANITARY FRESH EGGS READY TO SHIP]
It is quite impossible, with the growth of the country and the demand
for better things in all food products, to over-do the production of
Sanitary Eggs.
The following pages show the manner in which the quotations are placed
in our Scrap Book.
[Illustration: New York Commercial]
[Illustration: New York Commercial]