SALES BY WEIGHT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 281, 11 October 1889, Page 3

SALES BY WEIGHT.

• The countryman is often stated to be behind his town's kinsmen in sharpness, though probably ho is much the honester of the twoi Howover a litt'o more wordly wisdom Avould have the effect of increasing his mc .me in no inc. msiderablo degroo. AVo instanced the loss the farmer made by selling his cattle in the old fashioned hap-hpard guees weight, aud now wU desire to draw our poUltl'y breeders to a loss which they bear with the patience of a lamb. •A poultry fancier prides himself on the obtainiug of as l.irgo a breed of fowls that ho can, provided that they arrive at the point tor killing at an early age. We must naturally look for lurgo oggs from large fowls, and iis au egg is a most impor ant and a valuable article of food, liked by near y all, they have a ready sale, but as yet, the juice paid. is novor in the proportion to the bulk of the food sold. Eggs are bought and sold by tue dozen^-yot the difference in the weiylits may often vary ten ounces iv the dozen. Why should the breeder not bu paid for those ten ounces ? and why should the mirc-haser not on the other hand obtain his full weight There is no value to a dozen of eggs as that is no standard, it represents .no quantity, it is like stating that a heap of print was worth ; 0 much, or a lump of chalk was the same size as a piece of cheese «vi egg that weighs 1A oun es cannot be so valuable as an ogg that weighs two ounces, so why a doz n < f large eggs should be bought and sold at the same price as a doz n of small oggs, is -one of those things •' no fel ah " can uuder. taud. Tlio fairest plan to deal in eggs is the same «s with other produce, by weight, then the grower gets the value of the article ho makes his living by. To show that wo are making no statements as to the extraordinary difference in weights of the eggs produced by the different broods of fowls, wo may mention, thnt au average lot of light Brahma eggs went 80 oz to the dozen, whilst the same number of Leghorn and Hamburg oggs wont ouly 2loz. A lot of selected Jirahum eggs averaged 8(5 zs to the dozen, whilst a selected lot of Leghorn eggs "went only 2G oz to the dozen.. A* eggs mount up, even ,viL)i {.■• small number oi poultry, to unmy dozens in the twelve mouth, it cun oaaiiy be reckoned how pound* weight, and pounds cash the seller of lino large oggs loses, as against the gruwor of the small lands. We oonuuend this subject to the consideration of poultry keepers.