4 
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tion of eggs that there is less damage at the destination than at any 
other point, considering the vast volume of goods handled. 
As previously stated, the eggs under observation were treated ex- 
actly in accordance with the commercial routine, and the final exami- 
nation was made when the commercial handling ceased, whether that 
was on the pier, in the freight yard, at the store of the consignee, 
or in a private warehouse. Damage due to a transfer from the 
pier to the store of the consignee or the private warehouse is much 
less than is commonly believed. The occasional dropping of a case 
or other mishap, serious in itself, is small when the huge volume of 
business handled each day is considered. A comparison between the 
handling at private warehouses and that at railroad terminals shows 
that while the railroad handling is usually more rapid, it compares 
favorably, on the whole, with the handling at private houses. 
In order to obtain a definite idea of the actual damage caused by 
loading and unloading into wagons and hauling over rough city 
streets, egos.were followed from the store of the dealer to the ware- 
house where they were held in cold storage for several months, then 
back again by wagon to the store of the dealer. Each egg was ex- 
amined before and after the double haul. The wagon was light; the 
load was heavy; the haul, 2 miles each way; the streets traversed 
were paved with cobblestones and were unusually rough; the hand- 
ling at the warehouse included shifting to a second storage room and 
high stacking of cases. In spite of this excessive hauling and hand- 
ling, the damage, as seen from Table 14, was only 3.5 eggs per case, 
or 0.97 per cent. This represents more than twice the amount of 
handling the ege@ cases ordinarily receive between the terminal and 
the store or warehouse. It may, then, be concluded that, with the 
allowance of 1 egg per case as experimental error, the damage due to 
the usual cartage is less than 1 cracked egg per case. 
TABLE 14.—Damage due to haul in light wagon over cobble-paved streets. 
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Number of BSE COTE ga 
Worden individual | o eee 
Seo pNamiber | iret) 
| "| per case. NAGAR 
1 1,080 3 8 
2 3, 240 5 44 
3 5, 400 3 42 
4 5, 400 3 43 
5 5, 400 Pets 38 
6 5, 400 4.5 65 
a 5, 400 4 55 
8 5, 400 4 57 
| 9 5, 400 5 Tl 
10 5, 400 3 49 
11 2, 160 3 18 
12 3, 240 3 25 
13 4, 320 3 37 
14 4, 320 3.5 41 
15 4,320 rae 29 
16 4, 320 2 26 
17 4,320 3 35 
