SEVEN COLDEN RULES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 31, 31 October 1907, Page 2

SEVEN COLDEN RULES.

HIS CUSTOMERS PREFERRED DIRTY, • EGG^. Wo cuii the,'f oUowing . from,, tlic ; "Irish Homestead" ,:t-, ,v..: "One . of the egg-p eking exports of the, D.iA.T.f.'a few days ago, .111 the cmirseofjiiG; duties, visited 1 a higgler in the North of .Ireland'. i Ths man'got: angry as .soon as the Department's', instructor, introduced i himself. He abused', the 'Department. He, said ho had been at-'tho'egg business, for fifty years and. could instruct'the Department.., His customers asked',for dirty.eggs as they showed thej were;lrish and not. foreign. . If. we did not. got this oh irreproachable, authority ,wc CO H. ■ hardly creclit.it,' But rwo remembered , tho Suspicious, way in.whjch Karka; eggs received by some English buyers because thoy. were'clean (and, therefore, m their opinion, could' not be Irish) and we. .were forced from our'agnostic position. It is evident it.is not. only'in Klo'ndyko and California that poop . 1 ; look for.■ 'payingdirt.' In good old Irelaml,. too, tliore aro men who have found, dirt thatpays. The .venerable higgler iot/JI draw .up' rules of a' truly .national character,- and steer the industry back to its old path until the eggs become racy 1 of the soil, and can t bo 1 mistaken;' . , , . ~ '■ We" can" imagine 'the' kind :of .-rules he 1 would draw up.No. 1': Pupils will not be .allowed .to wash until the day's'.work "is over. ;Any ■pupil found washing his hands will be discharged. It is recommended; that fio washing at all take place, though this is not insisted on. No. 2: As, unf6rtunat'ely',\ibout halt the G"gs supplied will be clean, and as it is difficult to get the average ignorant egg-producor to listen to expert opinion, the Irish character of the'eggs can only be maintained by the prcsenca of. a manure heap in the packing she'd.''-Pupils will tln;n this.over in the morning before beginning'on the work of.the day. It must be drawn up close-to tlio"packing cases. • -No. 3: 'A ; shovelful of the manure must be scattered over the 1 packing straw and : carefully mixed with it before .the, straw, can be. considered ripe for packing; purposes. ; No.' 4: The pupil will,' as ho takes his egg,' firmly, press it-on the .beside him to receive' the '.Irishtrade mark,'.' and' wijl then place it in the case.'Any kind of .order in appearance of the eggs is to be avoided. The pupil cftiij by close attention to his ensure the retention on the, egg of a 1 considerable quantity of Irish, manure, and his progress, will .be judged by his .capacity in this respect. No. 51 When the. case ■ is! up it is recommended that : one or two eggs should bo broken over it, . It: is probable that some will be broken in transit,- but this may not happen,' and it is well to bo on the upside, oven though it costs a'little more. Tho English customer would riot believe the eggs wero Irish unless the case contained'broken eggs. . No. 6: Tho case 1 should bo left ! to mature' for a fortnight before being despatched: No. 7: : The consignee l need not be notified of the'despatch of the'cases for several days after they have gone. This will prevent disappointment, as the of. the railway companies aro well known, and, ,the customer will not have to 'send several times for cases which have not arrived. With'these, seven golden rules, the Irish egg trade can bo revived, arid its national character maintained..