EGG EXPORT TRADE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4673, 12 March 1924, Page 3

EGG EXPORT TRADE.

QI ALI I 1 OF MOST IMPORTANCE. Jn uttering a few words of warning to poultrymen who desired to place eggs on the English market, Mr F. C. Brown, poultry instructor, said at the New Zealand Poultry Association Conference at Wellington that so long as eggs v-ere placed on the market just as they came from the nest and without being tested, cleaned, and graded, then .so long must they expect to see the price of eggs based on the doubtful aTicle. “Let the organised egg be of special guaranteed quality," said Mr Brown. “ and the price will scon rise beyond the ordinary egg. ft is next to useless advertising to eat more eggs before being in a position to guarantee the quality. You will never make the real progress until you get the confidence of the consumer.”

Referring to the trial shipment of eggs and the part played in it by potiltiymen, Mr Brown said that too many of the producers made but i poor effort to help themselves. Some, amongst which were large producers, failed to even send a portion of their eggs rcr these trial shipments. Then, again, by far too many, producers sent in eggs which might as well have been left at home as they were ab solutcly useless for export, bn a general way we expected to merely have to reject a few inferior eggs from a good lot. but it was more a case of selecting the few good ones from a bad lot. In other words, the export grading depots were simply turned into a general clearing house for eggs. Small eggs, dirty eggs, stale eggs, and dtick eggs, which it- was never intended to export, were all carted in, handled perhaps several times, and finally carted away. What could be more disheartening, asked Mr Brown, than trying, to sort out such higgledypiddledly collections;, to say nothing of the unnecessary cost and the exceedingly late hours officials were compelled to work in order that the space booked on board ship would be filled ?