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covered with the same material. One point connected with packing in these 

 boxes the shipper shoiild know and guard against; that is, it is sometimes 

 the case that the pasteboard cover, on which the eggs are placed, ia com- 

 posed of two pieces, and during transporting or handling these pieces be- 

 come displaced, or jDass each other; then the eggs above drop down on the 

 lower ones and break them. This ditficiilty, however, can easily be avoided 

 by passing a piece of etiif paper over the joints, wliich will prevent them 

 passing each other. Any sized box desired can be used for this style of case, 

 and, with a little care on the part of the packer of the eggs, can be carried as 

 safely as with any of the jjatent boxes now in vague. 



Fig. 3 consists of an outside ease or crate, in which are fitted a mimber of 

 trays with cord laced through the sides and ends, dividing the spaces into 

 small squares or meshes, and making a delicate spring, wMch responds to 

 the slightest jar. Rows of pockets are suspended from the cord work, giv- 

 ing to each a separate apartment, and so arranged that no jar nor jolt the 



carrier may receive can 

 cause one egg to stidke an- 

 other, and being thus sepa- 

 rated, a free circulation of 

 air is obtained, which pre- 

 vents heating by any pos- 

 sibility. Each tray is pro- 

 vided with a protector, 

 which keeps the eggs in the 

 pocket even though the car- 

 rier be overturned. As each 

 tray contains a certain 

 number, no errors in count 

 can ever occur, and the pur- 

 chaser can determine at a 

 glance both the number and 

 quaUty of the eggs. By 

 using this carrier a child 

 can pack as well as a man. 

 One of these carriers, the size shown, -will hold sixty dozen of eggs. 



Milk for Hens. — Fanny Field thus expresses herself as to the food value 

 of milk for hens: " I quite agree with the correspondent of the American 

 PouUry Yai-d, who declares there is no feed on earth so good for fowls and 

 jhicks as milk in some form. For very young chicks we make the clabbered 

 milk into Dutch cheese, and use the whey to mix feed for other fowls and 

 chickens. From the time they are a week old till sent to market for broilers, 

 our early chicks have all the milk, sweet or sour, or buttermilk, that they 

 can drink. If the home supply of milk falls short of the demand, we buy 

 skim milk at two cents a quart, and consider it cheap at that. For laying 

 hens in winter there is nothing better than a liberal supply of milk. A pan 

 of warm mUk, with a dash of pepper in it, every morning, will do more 

 toward inducing hens to lay in cold weather than all the egg-food in crea- 

 tion. For fattening fowls, we find that boiled vegetables mixed with milk 

 and barley or cornmeal will put on fiesh at an astonishhig rate. Don't bo 

 afraid to give milk to fowls or chicks; from the time when the chicks are 

 given the first feed up to within the last day of the old fowl's life, milk may 

 be safely and profitably given." 



HG. 3. — SUSPENSION EGG CAEKIEB. 



