BREAKAGE OF EGGS IN TRANSIT, val 
The damage in a number of cars, typifying good bracing, buffing, 
- and stowing, is shown in Table 1. Table 10 shows the damage in 
some individual cars which were not stowed tightly enough to pre- 
vent a certain amount of shifting. In these cars, the shifting of the 
load was plainly visible on arrival at destination, and even before that 
time they had been classed as “ poorly loaded” by the investigators 
in the producing territory. In no case, however, were these cars 
comparable with those known commercially as “in bad order,” and 
none of them contained cases stained on the outside by liquid egg. 
In the language of the trade, there was no “ visible damage.” They 
are given here to illustrate how rapidly damage increases after the 
occurrence of a noticeable shifting, not as examples of the amount 
of damage often seen in cars commercially loaded. 
TABLE 10.—Damage in transit due to poorly stowed cars. 
a : Damaged ID ba Damaged 
i xperi- ‘ = xperi- i 
ges per F eggs per 
ment-No. easel ment No. Sh. 
5111 doi 5141 9.0 
5161 8.0 5180 9.5 
5106 6.5 5107 7.0 
5156 Il 65) 5165 9.5 
5176 14.5 5186 He) 
A comparative study of the step-joint and straight-joint loads in- 
dicates that, all other conditions being equal, one is as efficient as the 
other, in so far as the safety of the eggs is concerned. Table 11 
gives the damage in typical cars, when both forms of placing the 
cases were used, and when the buffing and bracing prevented the 
shifting of the cases during transit shocks. 
TABLE 11.—The relative damage in step-joint and straight-joint loads. 
Step-joint loads. Straight-joint loads. 
‘ Damaged - |Damaged 
Experi- eye Experi- mare 
ment No. sees ment No. See os 
5122 2.0 5121 165) 
5126 3.5 5124 2.0 
5130 3.0 5114 3.5 
5137 4.0 5117 2.0 
5127 2.5 5118 3.5 
5135 3.0 5120 3.0 
51381 3.5 5129 4.5 
5150 4.5 5139 4.0 
5116 Dao 5171 4.0 
5115 3.0 5173 2.0 
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During the early part of the investigation it was observed that 
while many step-joint loads showed damage at destination, they were 
