126 EGGS AND POULTRY 
The safest and most profitable way is to 
keep figuring ahead, endeavoring to have 
your market keep pace with the increased 
spring production even if the eggs had to be 
sold at a smaller margin of profit. 
Should you be compelled to put a surplus 
in storage, find a modern dry air plant in pre- 
ference to an ice cooler as the proper results 
can only be obtained with a dry air. Ice 
coolers are liable to create a damp air which 
would tend to make your eggs musty or 
moldy. 
All eggs that have been stored for any con- 
siderable length of time should be candled 
before being shipped to the consumer as 
every egg even in one day’s collection may 
not be alike in condition. 
During the busy laying season several hens 
may select the same nest in which to lay and 
no matter how many nests you may have 
prepared there will be some selected as fav- 
orites resulting in 6 or 8 eggs being laid in 
one nest. 
This would mean that the first egg laid 
would be set on several hours by the layers 
of the later eggs thus making a slight differ- 
ence in condition of each of those eggs. 
