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of a certain weight and sold as such without any doubt or 

 question. 



The trays described are also used for testing the eggs. A 

 square box lined with bright tin is fitted up in a dark corner of 

 the packing store. Inside this box there are four jets of gas, 

 and by placing the perforated tray filled with eggs on top of 

 the box, all the light passes through the eggs. The man who 

 is testing can then see if there are any cracked or stale eggs, 



• Grading of Eggs at Dervock Society. 

 (When arranged in the grading trays shown the eggs are ready for 



testing.) 



and the testing of 120 eggs, when they have been placed in the 

 tray and held over the light, takes only half a minute. This is 

 a very great improvement on the old system of holding the eggs 

 up to a candle or lamp, three at a time, and testing them 

 slowly and laboriously. 



The eggs are now ready for packing in the cases, which are 

 to convey them to one or other of the large towns or cities 

 of Great Britain. Non-returnable cases are used, as required 

 by the British trade, and they hold either three hundreds, six 

 hundreds, or twelve hundreds of eggs each. A hundred of 



