Eggs by Weight.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2062, 2 May 1887, Page 3

Eggs by Weight.

Isn’t it strange that we buy and ■ell eggs by number instead of by weight ? Number does not show their value ; weight does. Seme eggs weigh twice as much as others. What justice or business sagacity is there in paying the same price for one as for the other P Is not the farmer who ■ells a large egg for the same price that his neighbor sells a small egg, cheated ? And is not the buyer of a ■mall egg cheated? Just as well might butter be sold by rolls, the small roll bringing as much as 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 l>v weight, the value of certain breeds of fowls would be changed. Now the breed that furnishes the greatest number of eggs is the must profitable ; then it would be the breed that furnished the greatest weight. Some breeo'* re remarkable forthestnalluess of their ej■*uch breeds would sutler in popularnX while the fowl that lay large eggs gain- This would work onlv justice’, however, to the fowls, as it would to their owners and the consumers. Cieaii 1 e a6 B should he sold by weight. Then why does not everyone m-ist upon it? --American Agricultural,