P"Imer, Alaska__Dorothy H.Bell .Editor
Published once a week at Palmer, Alaska, for the Matansrafca Valley Formers' Cooperating
Association for the purpose of giving news of the Associations' ork, problems and
ac cornpl ishiuents.
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WHERE iX’YOU SELL YOUR EGGS?
Last May and June our Egg Cooler usually carried around 50 cases of eggs all of the
time. Chicken flocks in the Valley were in heavy production and practically all of
the chicken men in the V-lley marketed their eggs through the Matanuska Valley Farmers'
Cooperating Association. TJ'ey had to, because the market couldn't take all tho eggs
at all timos and the farmers had nonhero to store them. They nero purchased by tho
Co-op and stored until such timo as they could bo sold. Fortnnatoly at no timo did
tho eggs have to remain in the cooler over a nook and from chocks that no havo mado
hero, no know that they nill keop for a longer period than a nock in tho Co-op cool
room nithout suffering any deterioration.
r*o norc very fortunato in having a man in tho Anchorage D; iry nho got out and worked
to soli those oggs, By tho first of July our coolor nas empty and from that timo to
the present dato, no have sold th o eggs as fast as no can candlo and pack them.
At this writing no cannot begin to fill our orders, 'Jo try to spread the eggs around
among our customers tho best no can, but no fall far short. r7e haven’t, boon able to
supply our Anchorago market at all and all othor outlying markots havo had to be cut
out until ogg production increases.
TTc all roulizc that at this time of the year the older flocks are molting and the pul
lets have not como into production as yet. But—no nondcr if our members aro fringing
all the eggs they can to market, or arc they ycilding to the tonptation to ’-'Oddlc
thoir own* as so often happens rhon no have a scarcity of eggs. Arc you being fair
in this mattor?
First—During t tine of plenty eggs, the head of the Anchorage Dairy uorked hard to
mevc those eggs for you. He built up a market for those eggs. Then—there aro no
oggs. Hhat can ho tell these customers? Do they have to hunt other sources to buy
their eggs until the farmers in the V-tllcy have a surplus so that they can spare some
for their marketing agency? Hon is our salesman in Anchorage expected to hold that
markot open for that surplus?
Second—T7o aro facing a possiblo food shortage—and just as tho "Rrin falls on the
just and tho unjust” so the Matanuska Valloy F.-ermers' Cooperating Association trill
soil feed to both those uho sell their eggs through tho Association and those rho
r'scll outsido” until such a time as they can no longer sell them that nay. Is this
ozactly fair? •
After handling the eggs for tho farmers of'the Valley, candling and packing them, I
have natchod the fluctuation in production, and have noticed a fen things that do not
appear to be quito normal. For r'nstanco—a farmer suddenly begins to bring 15 dozen
oggs ovory day to market nhen hd had not marketed an egg for a solid'month or moro.
After having boon raisod on a farm and having raised chickens myself, I cannot bo con
vinced that chickens uill suddenly break into production like that. There can bo only
tvre onsnors to the situation—oithor you purchased a flock of ioying hens or—you
uoro peddling up until you could no longer move- your oun cggs« Cent, on pp, 3
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