Unlimited Demand for Quality Eggs
There is an unlimited demand for an egg which can be depended upon as to quality. The difficulty that the seller meets with when going to a hotel or restaurant is the fact that the proprietor has been fooled many times. As they have put it, “people start well, and for a time keep up the quantity, and the quality is all right, but when the stringent time of year comes they fall down as to quantity, and a little later they have evidently been tempted to keep up the quantity by gathering eggs from other sources than their own, and then we meet with the questionable pleasure of having a patron at our tables return to us an egg just ready to hatch.”
When one seeks private trade for the output of his hennery it is possible to obtain extreme prices, provided the buyers can be convinced of the absolutely high quality of what they are purchasing.
In New York, last year, for a few weeks, a man, gotten up as a veritable “hay-seed” farmer, sold eggs from house to house through the streets running from 45th to 65th, in large quantities. They were all marked in red ink with the date on which they were said to be laid.
He did not last very long, and his liberty was curtailed, and for some time he graced one of the free institutions where iron bars obstruct the view of the surrounding country. It developed that this enterprising crook was buying the culls from cold storage houses, and, in a basement on 43d Street near the North River, he had eight girls steadily at work marking the alleged dates when these eggs were laid.
The difficulty seems to be that when you reach the question of a “fresh egg,” everyone, almost, becomes a fakir. The grocers, many of them, buy case after case of storage eggs, and, when the retail price reaches sixty-five cents a dozen for so called “fresh eggs,” they are supplying all buyers with the cold storage product, in quantities practically unlimited. Their counters are always decorated with baskets of these “just laid, perfectly fresh eggs.”
Therefore, it becomes necessary for the Egg Farmer to satisfy customers, beyond peradventure, as to his ability to himself supply the goods which he contracts to deliver, and after once doing this his experience will be the same as that of The Corning Egg Farm, not to be able to keep and properly look after enough hens to turn out half the eggs he could sell at profitable prices, because the price he asks does not discourage customers who are willing to pay well for a really satisfactory article.
The following is the basis on which The Corning Egg Farm makes all its contracts for table eggs.
Sunny Slope Farm
(The Great Corning Egg Farm)
PRODUCES
Eggs for the Table
“WHICH CANNOT BE SURPASSED”
THEY ARE: