The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1908-08-05

been discovered whereby fresh eggs
could be manufactured like wooden
nutmegs. but these egg machinists
met the same fate as the patent rain
makers who went to the western rain
less regions with their dynamite bal
looms to make thunderstorms to order.
The hen lays the cold storage egg,
however distant 1t seems to be re-
moved from its primordial ancestor.
In the cheap season hucksters gather
them from the farms; poultrymen
haul them to the railroad stations:
grocerymen, who trade them In. de-
liver them {. o. b., and all together the
Grated eggs are freighted TO wholesale
houses and the trust" Now. If these
millions Of eggs were all good or the
men who handle them were all careful
or honest the cold storage eggs would
be of better quality and the prejudice
against them not so great. But listen!
Farmers. us a rule, are not very par
ticuar about eggs. Few of them have
good henhouses and nesting places.
The result is the hens hatch and Law
In any old place.
They lay In the haymow, next in
heat to hades on hot day; they drop
their eggs under the roosts and In the
COW stables: they steal their nests
under the hogpens and in many other
places where heat and filth soon rob
them of their beauty and sweetness.
Eggs found in stolen nests are often
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leaves nest egg to lure the speckled
hen back. 1t may be changed the next
day. OF 1t may serve in Its honorable
capacity for three months before 1t
finds its way to an epicure's table in
the city as fresh stock laid while you
wait How well we remember the
day on the farm when we found q
nest with ten dozens of eggs In the
corner of the haymow!
If one hen laid them all they were
the product of 1870 hard days work
that is, If she laid regularly every other
day, but the best type hen sweats to
lay 200 year.
How we exulted one day when we
spied half bushel of eggs under the
old hogpen!
We squeezed under and hauled them
out, and grandma sold them to the
huckster for 10 cents a dozen. But,
whisper 1t softly. the hens had been
Matching and rehatching under that
plgpen through all the ages of man.
You might think all the eggs shipped
from a modern poultry plant were
fresh Let me lift the lid. There are
great many CASTOR eggs at poultry
plants. Some set as high as 100000
eggs season. In some seasons from
81 to go per cent do not hatch. After
the large incubators are running five
Gays the eggs are tested by passing
tnem before strong light. All eggs
mat do not have bloody-like spider
IN them are rejected. This spider is
the live germ. and you can follow up
us development till toward the twenty
nrst day. when you can see the chick
en- wiggle in the SHE'LL
On the fifteenth there is another test.
Inc eggs rejected are the following:
Clear or infertile. with a red streak
or ruptured blood vessel, a black spot
Ut dead germ. cracked and rotten. At
Tue END OF the hatch among those left
are the eggs with dead chicks in them.
NOW you can see how much latitude
a plackleg in the egg business has for
trickery.
Inc infertile eggs are clear. and one
can hardly distinguish them from fresh
eggs. Bakers often use them In their
manufacture of wholesome cakes and
pastry. But some pouItrymen will mix
unese rejected eggs with good stock
ana sell them to wholesalers. and some
wholesalers will ship them to retailers
ana storage companies. and then they
80 TO the hotels. boarding houses, res
aurants and private families, and
mats where the kick" comes in.
CANDLING EGGS.-But let us actu-
any follow these eggs into a wholesale
MUSE where they do an honest bust
ueSS' They are preparing eggs for
oorage. Three or four carloads are
SACKED around, and some have been
enlpped clear from California We
open crate of California goods, and
eney are certainly crackerjacks-large.
"hite' beautiful eggs, superior in size
~ the eastern White Leghorn and
hinorca. What fine stock they must
naSe In the state of orange groves and
giant redwoods!
we now go into the Gambling room,
"nicn is pitch dark The operator
su,ns on a light which 10 in a box. A
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