Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1918 — Only 1 Egg in 100 Damaged. [ARTICLE]

Only 1 Egg in 100 Damaged.

An eggshell is not quite the most fragile thing in the world —workers In laboratories know of a few things more fragile—but it is the most fragile thing with which the average Individual has to deal. To transport a hundred eggs a distance of 1,200 miles in a freight car and to have the shells of 99 of them perfectly intact at the end of the Journey Is something of an achievement. Yet the United States department of agriculture has done a little better than that In a series of tests covering a period of two years, In which the average haul was 14200 miles, the total damage, including “checks,” “dents” and “leakers,” was less than 1 per cent If shippers of eggs in carload or less than carload lots will study and apply the methods of the department of agriculture in packing and hauling eggs, a long step will be taken toward conserving the food supply.