Shipping Live Poultry and Eggs 299 



conveniences for the grading that should be done 

 before the fowls are placed in the shipping 

 crates. They want things ready. 



HANDLING EGGS 



Eggs that are not perfectly clean should not 

 be sent to market. Indifferent or careless poul- 

 trymen permit the nests to become fouled, and 

 many eggs are not clean .when gathered. Eggs 

 may be stained from nest material, and they are 

 sometimes colored with blood, particularly the 

 first eggs of pullets. Stains of various kinds 

 may be readily removed with a moistened cloth 

 on which has been dusted a little cooking soda. 

 Poultrymen who make a specialty of fancy eggs 

 are particular to send clean eggs to market, 

 and also take considerable 

 pains to ship only those 

 of uniform size and color. 

 Uniformity is of great im- 

 portance when the highest 

 prices are to be secured. 

 As a fruit-grower recog- 

 nizes that a few large Fig. 94. 



i i i *j_i A convenient egg-carrier. 



apples when mixed with 



those of medium size do positive injury, so far 

 as the market value is concerned, so expert egg 

 producers recognize that a few large eggs mixed 



