Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Agricultural College Extension Service Bulletin, Vol. 12: Care of Eggs for Market
The production of eggs for market is becoming of greater importance in Ohio every year, both as a source of revenue and as a source of the national food supply. The demand for eggs is rapidly increasing. This increased demand is due largely to an increase in the consuming population. It is also due in part to an increase in the per capita consumption of eggs caused by a growing appreciation of their value as food and a more general substitution of eggs for meats on account of the increased price of the latter.
Increased demand for eggs has been accompanied by an increase in their cost to the consumer and a demand on the part of the consumer for a product of higher quality. This demand for higher quality, together with the requirements of the pure food laws of the State and Federal governments, has made it necessary for the poultryman to study carefully the factors which determine the market value of eggs, to produce eggs of better quality and to handle them with better care, in order that they may reach the consumer with a minimum of deterioration and loss.
Improvement in the quality of market eggs and the care with which they are handled is as important to the producer as is increased production. The production of eggs of better quality and the introduction of better methods of handing will eliminate the enormous loss in price because of the poor quality of a large number of the eggs marketed; it will eliminate the loss in transportation charges on worthless eggs; it will make unnecessary the large arm of graders, and candlers now required to sort the good from the bad and prepare them for market; and it will increase consumption, because of the elimination of doubtful eggs.
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