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179. How to Ship Market Eggs. Market eggs should be 

 shipped in thirty-dozen cases. 



180. Construction of the Thirty-Dozen Case. A thirty-dozen 

 case is made up of two compartments, each of which holds five 

 three-dozen fillers. The fillers are the strawboard cells in which 



Fig. 26. A graph showing the fluctuation of the prices of eggs each 

 month in the year. The figures along the sides are the prices of eggs 

 each month. Blank line indicates the average prices paid in'North Caro- 

 lina -and the broken line shows the prices paid on the New York market. 

 Compare with graph 25 and note that the high prices are in the time 

 of year when the fewest hens are laying. 



the eggs are placed. Each filler holds three dozen eggs. Be- 

 tween the fillers are the fiats. A fiat is a square piece of heavy 

 strawboard just the size of the compartment. There is left a 

 Ji^lf-jnch space above and the same space on the bottorn of th? 



