If you're wondering why all the fuss over eggs it's because chickens don't lay eggs in the winter due fewer hours of light. Once electric lights were put in bar

If you're wondering why all the fuss over eggs it's because chickens don't lay eggs in the winter due fewer hours of light. Once electric lights were put in barns eggs were available year round. I doubt in the early 1900s if many or any farmers could afford new fangled electric lights.