Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1919 — CARE IN HANDLING EGGS IS IMPORTANT [ARTICLE]

CARE IN HANDLING EGGS IS IMPORTANT

Must Be Gathered Twice Each Day and Kept Cool. Merchants Should Store in Dry, Cold Place, or Chill in Refrigerating Plant to Temperature Well Below 40 Degrees. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Good fresh eggs put in a basket and stored in the hot kitchen for a day or two may. reach town in such condition that they must be used at once to be available for food. A basket of perfectly fresh eggs left on the back of the wagon and exposed to the sun during a ten-mile drive to town, may reach the country merchant in such shape that not even immediate chilling will make them available for long shipment to the cities. This is the story constantly revealed by the candle on the egg car. Eggs of which the farmer’s wife is very proud will show that they have been allowed to remain 24 to 48 hours in the nest or at some point in their history have been exposed to heijfr which lowers their value. It is evident, therefore, that if the egg is to be palatable to the city consumer care In its handling must begin on the farm. The farmer must gather his eggs twice a day and must keep them cool afterwards, just as he would cream or milk, until they are delivered in town. There the merchant must at once put them into a dry cold place, or, if he wishes to be strictly" up to date, must chill jhem in his own little refrigerating plant or in the larger refrigerating plant of the town, to a temperature well below 40 degrees F. “• Heat is the great enemy, for once a good egg has stood for any time at a temperature of over 68 degrees F. it begins to incubate, if it is a fertile or to spoil, if it is an infertile egg.