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I can not conceive how an egg that has been so roughly 

 treated as to have the contents' thus delicately constructed, all 

 mixed up, can be reconstructed by a few days' rest, any more 

 than a person who has been mashed to a jelly in a railroad 

 collision can settle back to his proper condition by being put 

 into a soft, easy bed in a hospital for a few days. Such 

 shaking up and mixing would be fatal to the egg, and must be 

 avoided by preventing any possible injury during transporta- 

 tion. An egg boiled hard will exhibit all the various peculiari- 

 ties of structure on dissection ; and if it has been mixed up, the 

 injury will be plainly apparent. 



FERTILE AND INFERTILE EGGS. 

 I. K. FELCH. 



I am of the opinion that hens will lay fully as many eggs if 

 kept to themselves as if they have the company of cocks. I 

 certainly should not keep penned with surplus stock more 

 than one male to a pen, no matter what number I had, and 

 in producing eggs for the market, if I were keeping hens in 

 flocks of 40 or 50 I should keep no male. 



That an infertile egg will keep longer admits of no argument, 

 for an egg not impregnated will come out from under a hen 

 clear, while one that is impregnated, if sat on 48 hours and 

 then taken out, will surely be of bad odor at the end of 

 three weeks. An egg not impregnated may be sat on 12 days 

 and then be used for all cooking purposes equal to the common 

 run of store eggs. Recently I boiled 12 eggs taken out of an 

 incubator, after 12 days incubation. Ten were clean, two 

 showing the germ to have started, with death at an apparent 

 age of two days. The two impregnated eggs, when cut open, 

 had an unpleasant odor and the white was tarnished, while the 

 yelk had a brassy white tinge, and the dead germ was not 

 hardened by boiling. I ate four of the other 10 and they were 

 in appearance and taste as good as those that were kept 12 

 days in the pantry. The only difference lean see is, that when 



