BREAKAGE OF EGGS IN TRANSIT. ye 
in different parts of the car shows that the extra protection afforded 
by straw is largely distributed over the rows close to the straw, 
where apparently it visibly reduces the number of eggs broken. In 
the rows toward the middle of the car both forms of buffing, so long 
as the load is tight, are equally efficient. 
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Fic. 10.—Rate of cooling of eggs in refrigerated storage room. 
The effect of straw buffing on the temperatures maintained in 
refrigerator cars is too important to‘be omitted in a discussion of its 
relative value in the saving of waste in eggs. It is difficult to chill 
eggs packed in cases even when conditions are favorable. Figure 10 
