322 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ocz., 1898. 
This plan of irrigation is almost identical with that adopted by the 
Horticulturist, Mr. Gorrie, at the Queensland Agricultural College with much 
success. The only difference consists in the simultaneous application of water 
and fertiliser. The scheme is well worth a trial. 
POSITION OF EGGS DURING INCUBATION. 
Tue correct position for eggs during incubation is on their sides, with the 
large end slightly higher. When in this position, the chicks form in the large 
end, and at hatching time break the shell near the large end; if the small end 
is the higher, they are very likely to break the shell near the small end, and 
if they do this they are much more likely to perish in the shell, not being able 
to turn so easily to break the shell all the way around. The sawdust in the 
drawer or tray may interfere with the ventilation, or it may not, according to 
the construction of the machine. The eggs may be stood on end for the first 
five days, if turned twice daily, and then tested, when, the infertile eggs and 
those with dead germs being removed, there will usually be room in the trays 
to allow the good fertile eggs to lie on their sides.— Hachange. 
PACKING EGGS FOR TRAVELLING. 
No matter how carefully eggs are packed, they are very likely to get damaged 
by a long railway or coach journey. And more especially is this to be avoided 
in the case of eggs sent over the country for incubation. The sudden jolts 
they receive on a rough road orin a railway carriage often result in the loss of 
a whole sitting of valuable eggs. Only lately out of two sittings of valuable 
Plymouth Rock eggs sent to us by rail one resulted in three chickens and the 
other in five. Five more sittings which arrived in the same manner, over fifty- 
eight miles of rail, will probably fare no better. 
Now, here is an idea which is doubtless of American birth, seeing that it 
mentions a “candy pail’ and a “ grocery store.” We take it, however, that it 
comes through the Australasian, and it seems worthy of a trial :—* A regular 
egg-case 1s doubtless best for carrying eggs to market, but better than carrying 
them piled up one upon another in a basket is the plan shown in the cut. ‘Get 
a candy pail at the grocery store and cut from old paste-board a lot of circles, 
each one a trifle smaller than ihe other to go next above it in the pail. Puta 
layer of bran in the bottom of the pail, lay the eggs thickly over it and fill in 
between and over them with bran. Lay on a pasteboard circle and proceed as 
before. The storekeeper will take out each layer of eggs, lift out the circle with 
the bran on it, empty the bran into a box or pail. Then, when the eggs are all 
out, he will pour the bran all back into your pail, putting the circles on top, to 
be used again and again. Packed in this way the eggs will not break, though 
the horse trots and the roads be rough.” 
