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Exercise. — Drinking Fountain. — Have some one make 

 a drinking fountain like the one described and figured, and 

 show how it works (Fig. 201). 



Fig. 204. — A hundred white Leghorn chicks from an incubator. (Cornell.) 



Exercise. — Testing Eggs. — Let some form of tester be 

 used in testing eggs brought from homes or from a store. 

 Eggs are usually candled in some stores to detect any not 



Fig. 205. — A good way to prepare eggs for market. Each dozen is uniform 

 m size and color and packed in the dozen-size cartons of pasteboard. The crate 

 is painted and labelled with the owner's name, (H. R. Lewis.) 



suitable for human food. This is done thus: Put a candle 

 or stronger Hght in a dark box; have an oval hole a little 

 smaller than an egg in one side, even with the light; let that 

 part of the room where the testing is to be done be darkened 

 somewhat. Hold an egg over the hole and look for any 



