Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1916 — EGG TESTING CAR TO BE HERE FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

EGG TESTING CAR TO BE HERE FRIDAY

U. S. Department of Agriculture Egg Grading Specialists Will Give Free Demonstrations. Uncle Sam’s special egg candling, packing and chilling demonstration car will arrive in Rensselaer Friday, August 18, about 9 o’clock. At each stop the specialists with the car have tested, graded, chills! and packed without charge local eggs for the local shippers. When the car reaches ensselaer it will be located on the side track most convenient to the town. The demonstrations will begin on arrival and continue until 4:30. The car will spend one day in this place. The department specialists on this summer tour will give special attention to eggs and their proper preparation for shipment. They will also give information to those especially interested in the most approved methods of dressing, chilling, and packing chickens and turkeys for shipment «o the New York and other distant markets. A model showing the construction of a small ice-chilled precooling plant will be exhibited and explained. The purpose is to increase local profits from poultry and egg 4 prevent waste and preserve quality. Eggs will be candled according to the commercial standards and “fresh,” “stale” and “heated” eggs, “bloodrings,” “white rots,” “black Yots” and other grades will be exhibited. The demonstration in detecting “white rots” is said to be very important, as many candleis confuse “white rots” with “fresh” eggs. The eggs will then be sorted by market standards of size, cleanliness of shell and condition of contents.

The eggs can then be put into the of the car, where they may be chilled to 40 degrees Fahrenheit in 24 hours. Eggs chilled in this way beforfe being put into the ordinary refrigerator car do not deteriorate rapidly. Eggs packed warm in a refrigerator car do not get chilled properly for about five days, during which time they undergo constant deterioration.

The chilled eggs can then be loaded in cars for shipment. The demonstrators will, show the most successful ways in using fillers, flats and buffing, placing and number of nails to the case, and the bes<. way of stowing cases in the cars. A small model car will be loaded in order to show the practical application of straw or wood buffing, bracing the load, placing the cases so that they will be kept cool, and other details of stowing egg cases to prevent damage in transit. All interested are cordially invited to attend. The car in itself is well worth seeing. The cooling system is operated by its own gasoline engine. Thp engine also provides electric current so that the refrigerating rooms can be well lighted and night demonstrations can be held. This same car spent last season in southern Indiana. In previous seasons the car was in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky, and shippers who followed its methods were able to ship turkeys for the Thanksgiving and Christmas trade in New York in such a way that they reached the eastern markets in prime condition in spite of abnormally warm weather, and what had been unprofitable summer egg business were made to pay.