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perfectly good to eat ; but it is preferable to save them for 

 the food of the chickens when hatched. Throwing them 

 away is a wasteful proceeding." 



It is evident that setting two or more hens on the same 

 day is advantageous, as the " clear" eggs may be removed 

 from the whole of the nests, and the number in those that are 

 deficient made up from the other nests, a fresh batch being 



METHOD OF TESTING EGGS. 



placed under the hen the whole of whose eggs have been 

 removed. 



The conveyance of eggs for the purpose of hatching is 

 tolerably well understood by the most experienced breeders. 

 There is nothing equal to a good-sized basket in which they 

 can be placed, surrounded with and separated from one 

 another by hay. Boxes with bran, sawdust, cut chaff, &c., 

 are very inferior, as these materials shake into smaller 



