Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — Packing Eggs for Transportation. [ARTICLE]

Packing Eggs for Transportation.

Packing eggs to preserve them during winter for home market or consumption is a very different matter from packing them so that they can be safely transported long distances. Produce commission merchants, who are equally interested with the farmers in having the packages pass through the perils of rough handling and many changes uninjured, issue each year in circulars to their patrons directions for packing this very frail commodity. With one accord the rules laid down in the various circulars referred to discourage the employment of chaff as a packing material, and recommend, among the more available substances, dry sweet straw or hay finely cut. Clean oats are admirably suited to the purpose and are advised when the quantity of eggs to be packed is not very large, otherwise this material is somewhat costly. Whatever material is used it is imperative that the packpig be sweet and dry. Either boxes or well-hooped barrels may be used. Place three inches of fine cut straw, hay or oats, as the case may be, at the bottom of the package; follow this with a layer of eggs removed an inch or more from the sides of the barrel or box, and not touching each other; over these place several inches of the packing material, and press it down gently but surely, so as to fill all interstices between the eggs, and cover them about one inch in depth; then put in another layer of eggs, taking care that the packing is pressed between the ends of the eggs and the side of the ■package, and so continue the alternate layers of eggs and packing material until within three or four inches of the top of the package. Finish off with at least two inches of packing and an inch or so of hay. Press the cover of the package down closely and secure it firmly. With care the eggs can be thus pack so they will remain in the places they are put, and not move about to crush one another. In placing the eggs a class of farmers hold to the old rule <>f setting them little ends down. A commission house in Boston advises this season that they be placed with the end towards the side of the package. Either way. if so Sacked as to keep the eggs from coming i contact," will, with ordinary care in handling the package during its transit, insure their safety a long distance.— N. Y. World. —The first gas ever exhibited in New York was from a lamp erected by the old Gas Company in 1823 in Franklin Square. It caused great curiosity and MM nightly vjaitetlby crowds.