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out a special permit, and in many cases would not issue 

 such a permit at all. The hot water machine will, of 

 course, go into any cellar without vitiating the insur- 

 ance, and, what is more, the machine itself is insurable, 

 just as is any hot water plant in a house. 



Tested Only on Eighteenth Day 



Until this season, on The Corning Egg Farm, we 

 had made it a rule to test the eggs on the 14th day. 

 Many operators believe in testing the eggs from the 

 5th to the 7th day, again on the 14th, with the final 

 test on the i8th day. In operating one of the old 

 style machines, with the large trays, it was expedient 

 to remove the clear eggs and those with dead germs 

 to facilitate the turning of the eggs in the trays, but 

 all this arduous labor is done away with in the hot 

 water machine. The trays hold seventy-five eggs, 

 and are so constructed that one tray fits on top of an- 

 other, and then the trays are simply reversed and 

 the turning is accomplished. This makes it necessary 

 to have a full tray to prevent the eggs rolling and 

 breaking when they are turned in the manner de- 

 scribed. Testing the eggs is, therefore, deferred un- 

 til the 1 8th day. 



When one sees the tremendous saving of time 

 which the coal-heated, hot water machine accomplishes 

 for the operator, it produces a feeling bordering on 

 mirth in the man who has labored with the old style 

 machine and big tray, when thousands of eggs were 



