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already cooled when it can be avoided. For this rea- 

 son very large rooms are not to be desired. A small 

 room may be quickly filled with goods and closed until 

 goods begin to go out in the fall. If a large room is 

 used it may require several weeks to fill completely, 

 during which time the fluctuation of temperature is 

 at times excessive, causing condensation on the goods, 

 which will propagate must quickly. 



To illustrate: We will suppose the egg room partly Don't put 



r J warm egg's into 



filled with goods cooled to a temperature of 30 F. Sev- acoldroom 



1 along with eggs 



eral cars of eggs at a temperature of, say, 70 F. are run already cooled. 

 into the same room. The new arrivals, in cooling to 

 the low temperature, give off large quantities of vapor 

 from cases, fillers and the eggs themselves, the vapor 

 condensing, of course, on any object in the room which 

 is below the dew point of the air from which the warm 

 goods came. This may seem like a finely spun theory, 

 but the writer has had some experience which amply 

 justifies this explanation. That the moist vapor given 

 oif by the warm goods does not show in the form of 

 beads of water, or fog, or steam, is no proof that it 

 does not exist. If the extremes of temperature are 

 as great as 25 F. condensation will occur on nine 

 days in ten during the egg storing season. The goods 

 already in storage are raised in temperature materi- 

 ally by placing in warm goods, which is harmful to 

 some degree. The logical deduction from above 

 seems to indicate that warm goods should not be 

 placed in a room with goods which have been reduced 

 to the carrying temperature. A separate room 

 should be provided for this purpose near the receiv- 

 ing room in which the goods coming in warm may be 

 cooled to very near the temperature of permanent 

 storage room. This is a refinement which small 

 houses cannot afford, and which most of the larger 

 ones do not have. 



If you wish to progress compare your results with 

 those of others. Don't say: "My eggs are as good as 



