MARKETING OF EGGS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10586, 18 March 1912, Page 4

MARKETING OF EGGS.

In Denmark the marketing of eggs has been reduced to a science. Fa oh egg society employs a collector, who visits every farm in his district once a'week and collects the eggs. Those societies insist upon compliance with rules as stringent and arbitrary as the bacon-curing and butter-making societies. Once a farmer joins he is com•pellod to conform to the Society's rules. For instance, no washing of the eggs is allowed, as it has been found' that washing interferes with the keeping quality. - The eggs must Jbo perfectly ('lean, and in order to secure cleanliness the fowl-houses and nests arc conr.tnK-tod on the o"? gen-

eral principle. .Non-compliance with rules leads, in the first place, to a caution, and in the second case to expulsion. AH the eggs are tested in a dark room, and passed over a verystrong light. If any old or stale eggs are discovered, the farmer from whose farm they came is lined, and, if the offence is repeated, ho is struck off the list cf members. All complaints as to inferiority or breakage after they have been sold are also inquired into by the societies. The federation controlling the collecting has 35,000 members. The eggs are purchased by j weight, irrespective of size.