—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 26,1978
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Inedible egg survey conducted
ARLINGTON, Va. - The
Poultry and Egg Institute’s
Shell Egg Section has
bunched a study to deter
mine the volume and
disposition of inedible eggs
in this country.
The study is the result of a
problem brought to the Shell
Egg Section’s attention by
some Eastern U.S. producer
packer members whose
outlet for inedible eees was
suddenly cut off when a
leading pet food manufac
turer changed its dog food
formula, thus sharply
reducing the volume of eggs
it formerly used. A telephone
check of some of the larger
packers nationwide revealed
that although they were not
faced with the same problem
as were the Eastern
packers, they felt that
something should be done to
reduce the volume of
Grange meets
RED LION - More than
thirty Members of the Red
Lion Grange 1781, gathered
for a “Cook-out” prior to the
regular meeting tune on
August 19.
During the business
session, chaired by Lee
Burns, Master, names of
members were suggested for
new officers for 1978-79
Grange year, with an
election of Officers to be held
on September 16.
A special meeting will be
held Tuesday, August 29 for
tiie purpose of finalizing
plans for the Grange booth at
the York Interstate Fair.
Gladys Sheffer reported on
the Penna. State Grange
soft-ball finals, held in
Centre County on August 12,
where Biglerville Grange,
Adams County, won the state
title. Schuylkill County won
second place in the state
competition.
Next meeting of the
Grange will be held at 8
p.m., on September 2.
inedible eggs and more
profitably utilize those that
are available.
The Institute has engaged
Dr. Owen Cotterill of the
University of Missouri to
chair a committee of leading
egg scientists to tackle the
problem. The committee has
already begun conducting a
mall survey of a random
sampling of 2,000 U.S. shell
egg producers and
processors.
At the stable where I keep my horses, Dollar has
become somewhat of a celebrity.
It seems that there is an uncovered hay hole m
the ceiling of his stall. And the farmer who owns
the barn didn’t want anyone to accidentally fall
down that hole. So he placed a straw bale over the
spot.
A few hours later he came back and the bale of
straw was gone. So he put another bale of straw
over the hole.
A little later he noticed that that one was gone
too. Perplexed, he placed yet a third bale of straw
over the hole.
It seems that my horse, who is ever ready to eat
anything faintly resembling food, discovered that
by standing on his tippy-tip-toes, and stretching
his neck with all his might, could just grab the tip
of those straw bales and slowly pull them down in
his stall.
The result was that when I came to let him out in
his pasture, I found him up to his waist in straw,
happily munching a bite of it here and there. He
didn’t care if he was ever turned out again as long
as those straw bales kept appearing.
Honestly, what are you going to do with such an
animal?
Results of the survey in
summary form, without
disclosing individual
responses, will be presented
at the Egg Packers and
Processors Workshop during
PEIA’s 49th Annual Fact
Finding Conference in
Houston on September 14.
After Fact Finding, it is
expected that one or more
research projects will be
initiated based on the results
of the survey.
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