THE POULTRY YARD.
EGGS BY WEIGHT. Isn’t it strange that we buy and sell eggs by number instead of by weight ? Number does not show their value ; weight does, Rome eggs weigh twice aa much aa others. What justice or business sagacity is there in paying the same price for one as for tbe other ? Is not tbe farmer who sells a large egg for the same price that bis neighbor tells a small one cheated ? Ahd is not the buyer of the small eg? cheated ? Just as well might butter be sold by rolls, the small roll bringing as much aa the large one. We do not buy or sell butter by the number of rolls, or meat by the number of pieces, or cheese by number ; nor should we sell eggs by number. If eggs were bought and sold by weight, tbe value of certain breeds of fowls would be changed. Now the breed that furnishes the greatest number of eggs is the most profitable ; then it wonld be the breed that furnished the greatest weight. Some breeds are remarkable for the smallness of their eggs ; such breeds wonld suffer in popularity, while the fowls that lay large eggs would gain. This would wotk
only justice, however, to the fowls, as it would to their owners and the consumers. Clearly eggs should be sold by weight. Then why does not evsry one insist npon it ?
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 780, 11 February 1887, Page 18
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237THE POULTRY YARD. New Zealand Mail, Issue 780, 11 February 1887, Page 18
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