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2. Demonstrate how to test eggs by candling, using 

 a pasteboard box and a lamp. 



3. How to pack eggs to ship by parcel-post and for 

 cold storage. How to mark or stamp individual eggs. 



4. How to operate an incubator. 



5. How to handle a sitting hen. 



A Minnesota club boy with his flock and colony house. 



10. Poultry Play Contests 



1. Egg race, conducted on the same plan as potato 

 race. 



2. Poultry judging contests. Use score-card. 



3. Egg scoring contest. Use commercial score-card. 



4. Breed variety naming contest. 



5. Drawing contest. In this contest all kinds of equip- 

 ment, different breeds of poultry, poultry houses, runs, etc., 

 may be used as a basis. 



