Eggs
Sir, —I am a farmer who keeps a few hens for the use of my family, but have a few surplus eggs to sell. A friend who has a
small dairy business in the city asked me if I would let him have my surplus eggs. I consented and he pays me the same as he pays the egg floor for theirs. In company with dozens of other small businesses in the city he openly advertises “farm fresh eggs for sale.” We have never had a complaint about our eggs. On the contrary the customers ask for them. I now discover that we have been breaking the law and I am a potential criminal and liable to three months’ imprisonment if I continue to do so. The quantity of eggs sold is not great and as long as I account for these sales in my tax returns, who is being hurt?—Yours, etc., GOOD EGG. May 31, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29219, 1 June 1960, Page 7
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158Eggs Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29219, 1 June 1960, Page 7
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