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solution of one of salt to ten of water. All the good eggs and 
many of the dead at once settled to the bottom. 
Sixth. Equal numbers of good and dead eggs were placed in a 
solution of one of salt to eleven of water. All promptly settled 
to the bottom. Eggs left in a solution of one of salt to seven 
of water for five minutes show a dent in the shell and feel soft 
and flabby as if a portion of the contents had been expelled. 
They resumed their normal appearance after returning to fresh 
water, and suffered no ill effects. Eggs remained in a one to 
nine solution for seven minutes without injury. Unfertilized 
eggs that have not turned white will settle to the bottom in a one 
to nine solution as promptly as the good eggs, but will turn white 
shortly after they are returned to fresh water; a second immer- 
sion will cause them to float when they can be readily poured or 
skimmed off. All good eggs used in the experiments were over 
four hundred temperature units of development. After eggs 
have passed the tender stage, over four hundred temperature 
units, the one to nine solution affords a cheap and easy method 
of removing the dead or unfertilized eggs, but until this devel- 
opment has been reached it cannot be successfully used as the 
eges are too tender to withstand removal from the trough and 
pouring into the solution. It is doubtful if this method could 
be applied to Baird and sub-stations as eggs are picked daily 
through the tender stage, to avoid the collection of fungus, and 
practically all dead eggs are removed before good eggs have devel- 
oped to a stage where they can be placed in the salt solution with- 
out injury. By picking the eggs daily we have a loss of from 
three to five percent; if they were buried or covered during the 
tender period to permit the use of the salt solution, the loss would 
probably be much greater from fungus. We find that the salt 
solution works best when not over twenty or thirty thousand are 
used at one time; when more than this number is used the good 
eggs .become entangled with the dead and are thus supported 
at the top and cannot be separated. As we frequently put from 
forty to fifty thousand in a basket it was necessary to divide the 
basket to hold one half while the other half was in the salt solu- 
tion. I can readily see the value of this method in special cases 
such as an injury to a basket of eggs after they have passed the 
tender stage which would make it necessary to remove a large 
