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BULLETIN 1385, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 4. — Unit of quantity employed in selling eggs in principal European 
countries 
Country 
Unit of quantity 
Long or great hundred, 120 eggsX12= 1,440. 
1 
>Schock, 60 eggsX24= 1, 440. 
Poland 
1 ' 
Score, 20 eggs X 72= 1, 440. 
Mandel, 15 eggsX96= 1, 440. 
Italy -. - 
Dozen, 12eggsX120=l, 440. 
Do. 
Four American cases holding 30 dozen each are equivalent to 
1,440 eggs, or one European export case. 
As in the United States, the boxes are made by box makers and 
shipped to the egg packers in a knockdown form. By far the 
greatest supply of boxes is produced in Transylvania, formerly in 
Hungarv, now in Rumania. The weight of the empty box varies 
from 35 to 40 pounds (fig. 20). 
-Making up export egg cases, Pozen, Poland 
PACKING MATERIALS 
The eggs are packed in these export crates in alternate layers 
of straw or wood wool, or a combination of both. Wood wool, as 
it is called in Europe, is similar to the wood excelsior commonly 
used for egg packing in the United States, except that the strands 
are about three-sixteenths to one-fourth inch in width, but very 
thin, so that it has the appearance of masses of narrow, white or 
cream-colored ribbon. 
Because the eggs come in intimate contact with the straw or the 
wood wool, the packing material must be absolutely dry to pre- 
