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STUDYING EGGS 



Market Gradings — The Most Offensive Variation in Eggs 



— Cornell Demonstration Grading — The Low Grades 



— Abnormal Eggs — Inflammations — Breeds classed 

 as to Color of Eggs — Shell Textures and Variations — 

 The Ideal Egg — Grading by Selection of Hatching 

 Eggs — Grading and Extra Price. 



The Cornell Station, among its exhibits at Fairs and 

 Poultry Shows, carries a grading table fitted with pockets 

 running lengthwise of its surface, of such shape that 

 they hold the eggs securely, when the table is almost on 

 edge. This brings the student of eggs face to face with 

 the contents of every egg in a crateful. The eggs are 

 bought in the open market and when graded show clearly 

 the various shapes, colors, and sizes which pertain to 

 the market eggs as commonly offered by the farm 

 producer. 



Eggs may be placed roughly in three or four grades, 

 it may be ; or, as in New York markets, there may be 

 twice as many grades, or even more. Producers in gen- 

 eral are quite free in their expression of the sense of in- 

 justice which they feel is done them, by the fact that 

 the middlemen, somewhere along the line, advance the 

 price so much, that out of the dollar which the consumer 

 may pay the producer gets, it may be only forty cents, 

 more or less. We must all allow that if the middleman 

 takes the product off our hands, pays transportation^ 

 commissions, candling, etc., and stands possible (and 



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