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BULLETIN 663, U. S. PEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



angle iron. The pressure of steam should be sufficient to maintain 

 temperatures of 210° to 212° F. If there is not an available supply 

 of steam, a boiler heated with coal or gas should be installed (Plate I). 

 Gas boilers have been found very convenient for this purpose. 



CONCLUSIONS. 



An egg-breaking plant should have an insulated refrigerated 

 chillroom, candling room, freezer, and breaking room. Adjoining 

 the breaking room should be a room for the washing and sterilizing 

 of utensils. 



I'i'.. 25.— Small steam sterilizer used on gasstove. (Reprintfrom Farmers' Bulletin 71s.) 



The breaking and sterilizing rooms should have a plentiful supply 

 of natural light. The walls and ceilings should be plastered and 

 white enameled, and the floors should be concrete with trapped 

 drains. In the partition between the two rooms a sliding window 

 for the transfer of equipment should be built. 



The freezer should be equipped with shelves of brine piping, 

 through which brine is circulated for freezing the cans of liquid egg. 



The candled eggs should be taken to the breaking room in metal 



