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blower after being ' humped up ' for an hour or more, blow- 

 ing away for dear life— eggs, I should say — on a lot of 

 eggs that have been set on for four or five days, or long 

 enough so the white has become thick and tough. After 

 the eggs are blown they can be rinsed out very quickly 

 with a Tater blowpipe, which has been described in a 

 number of amateur papers. Small, fresh eggs can also be 

 blown with it. I can assure the readers of The Wilson 

 Quarterly that it will be far easier than squirting water 

 into an egg-shell, with one's mouth, through a blowpipe. 

 After preparing seventy or eighty eggs at one sitting you 

 will be ready to testify that it has saved you about half a 

 ton of face-ache. 



" I made my washer five years ago. I will describe it 

 and the hand blower, I might also add that the total cost 

 of both was about one dollar. 



•■ I took a tin bucket, that holds about one and one-half 

 gallons, to a tinker and had a small tin tube, two inches 

 long, inserted in the side close to the bottom, and a wire 

 bent like the letter U soldered on the side of the bucket so 

 it would project an inch above the rim. Then I bought two 

 feet of i inch rubber pipe and slipped one end on the tin 

 tube, into the other end I inserted a glass nozzle — of which 

 I have two sizes. 



"When I wish to use it I hang it up over the work bench 

 so that it cannot turn or swing, place the tube just behind 

 the nozzle in the bent wire at rim and fill with water. 



"For the blower I took the valve from the end of an 

 atomizer and fitted it into one end of a rubber bulb ; this 

 bulb being heavier and more durable than the one from 

 which the valve was taken. Into the other end of the bulb 

 insert a small glass tube. Before doing this I made a stand 

 for the blow pipe by taking a block of hard wood one inch 

 thick, four inches wide, and five inches long ; set a post in it 

 — near one end — four inches high and one inch by three- 

 quarters. The post inclines several degrees from perpen- 

 dicular towards the shorter end of the block. Near the 

 top of the post bore a hole slanting so that when the blow- 



