Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — To Test Eggs Before a Candle. [ARTICLE]

To Test Eggs Before a Candle.

For the benefit of farmers and all persons who handle and use eggs the Department of Agriculture has recently published a colored egg-can-dling chart, which if used will enable persons to test eggs accurately before they are opened. This chart shows the eggs in their natural size as they appear before a candle, and also as they look when in an open shallow glass dish or saucer. The pictures show absolutely fresh egg*, slightly stale eggs, decidedly stale eggs, eggs with yolks sticking to the shell, eggs where the chicken has developed |o far that blood has been formed, moldy eggs, addled eggs and eggs with a green white. Generally housewives do not know that a green color In the white of eggs is due to the presence of billions of a certain species of bacteria that make a green coloring matter. Eggs with this greenish tint, even though they oiks sewn to be pep feet, are not fit for food.