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It will be seen from the figures that the essential plan of the 

 table is a very simple one. It consists merely in suspending 

 an egg distributing tray on a pivotal axis so that it may be turned 

 as a whole. It was desirable in the breeding work here to have 

 an egg distributing table of as great capacity as possible, hence, 

 it was made of large size and the egg trays were made double. 

 In place of having the whole top of the table form one single 

 compartment it was deemed desirable on account of the large 

 size of the table to break it up into 4 parts each having a sepa- 

 rate cover (cf., Figs. 4, 5, and 7). Each of these parts is of 

 approximately the same depth as the length of an egg. In order 

 to make compartments within the trays to hold the eggs from 

 each individual breeding hen resort was had to the device of 

 putting the ordinary pasteboard fillers from an egg shipping 

 crate into the trays. These fillers were joined together in suffi- 

 cient number with strong glue. Each cross row of compart- 

 ments formed by these fillers may then be devoted to the eggs 

 from a single bird and the number of that bird placed at the 

 end of the row (cf., Fig. 5). In order to prevent the eggs 

 from being broken when the table top was turned the trays were 

 lined below and their covers above with extra thick deadening 

 felt. This felt may be obtained from any dealer in builders 

 supplies. In the table in use here each side is divided into 4 

 trays. The dimensions of these 4 trays are such that each will 

 hold eggs from 25 breeding hens. Consequently, the whole of 

 the top of the table contains eggs from 100 hens. The width 

 of the table is such that there are 11 compartments for each 

 hen so that 11 eggs from that hen may be stored before incuba- 

 tion. 



As has been said the table top is made double. That is, the 

 construction is the same as if two egg distributing trays such 

 as those just described were placed back to back and fastened 

 together. Thus, for example, in Figure 5 the table is shown 

 with two of the trays on one side (say "side I") open. With 

 the table in this position the covers of the trays of the other 

 side ("side II") form in effect the bottoms of those trays. By 

 making the distributing trays in this way the capacity of the 

 table is doubled. 



