The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-09-18
THE FARM AND HOME.
CONVENIENT AND SAFE METH
DDS OF STORING EGGS.
Eggs Always Large End Down-About
Watering Your Horses-Discov
ered Waste in Churns-Farm
Notes and Home Hints,
Handling Eggs,

Regularity in the collection of newly
laid eggs is one duty every farmer and
poultry-man should rigidly follow.
This is a more or less neglected duty
in many poultry yards and should not
be. Fix time, say in the fore part of
the afternoon, and collect all eggs laid
that day and place them in dry, cool
room, with small end up. Hens of the
best laying breeds should lay from $50
to $50 eggs per annum and sometimes
many more, but the average is here
given. The habit of egg eating so
prevalent among SO many of our best
fowls but more especially among those
that do not have regular supply of
grit and bone should be watched care
fully and prevented. Take quantity
OF mustard, mixed thickly, then take
an egg, blow out the contents by MAX
ing small hole with knife blade in
each end; after all the egg is removed
the mustard is worked inside by aid of
straw until the inside shell is well
covered. The hen will endeavor to
eat IT. but the dose will not be very
much relished, and in nine cases out of
ten, II kept up for a few days, it will
effect a cure. If it fails it would be
wise to cut her head off as the habit
has the better of her.
Many farmers with large focks of
laying hens construct shelves of light
board, one-half inch stuff being light
and suitable. Holes are cut large
enough to permit the large end of the
egg to rest easily within. The egg
can then be placed in rows and in
suitable room, not too warm but mod
erately cool. A large number Of eggs
can be so stored until ready to sell or
use. The egg rooms should be dark
or nearly so, convenient and easy of
access to the laying quarters. Some
breeders keep eggs in bran, this is
very good plan, especially so for eggs
for eating or marketing purposes.
For setting, the eggs placed in the
boards as mentioned first is preferable,
the eggs being better preserved for
incubation.
Never place the egg small end
down, but on the contrary large end
down is always the better way. Eggs
SO kept have been a month old and
sixty per cent of the number set
brought forth strong, healthy chicks.
1t is best in packing eggs for shipment
to pack in bran or fine sawdust; wrap
ping each egg securely in tissue paper
and placing in the bottom of the bas-
ket with first a layer of bran and the
eggs large end down, with bran packed
around each egg, will prevent them
from coming together. When the
bottom of the basket is covered, a
layer of brown paper is then placed
over them, and this will double the
safety of them. Then over the paper
a layer of bran is placed and the eggs
placed in tissue paper as before. The
lid is fastened by sewing it with strong
Irvine and labeled for delivery to the
express Office. Eggs so packed will
safely carry around the world if neces-
sary. Eggs are very delicate fruit
to handle, consequently you should
study the best method to safely handle
them, for they will mean considerable
profit or loss in season if many are
broken. There is always the right
and wrong way of doing everything.
We have given a few practical hints
that if needed will be found to be in
every sense useful to you-Ohio
Farmer.