Show POOR PRACTISE OF FARMERS department of agriculture tora recommend incubator eggs be used at home the mixing ot incubator eggs with the fresh spring eggs leads the egg packers who get their principal cold storage supply in the spring to cut the price they pay the farmer depart ment of agriculture investigators find the spring eggs designed for keeping tor winter consumption must be absolutely good moreover the egg pack ars in the spring do not candle eggs but hold them three at a time in the hand and clink them to discover any crack and then judge their freshness by their fresh powdery look on the shell the mixture of infertile cincu bator eggs alth fresh eggs interferes seriously with this clinking and forces the packer to candle the eggs he then deducts this added expense from the price he offers to the producer eggs which have once been subjected to the beat of the incubator cannot be stored even though frozen the farmer who sells incubator eggs to the dealer therefore Is very liable to injure his own market for fresh eggs hen dealers find a percentage of low grade incubator or other eggs in their fresh spring egg supply they lower the price tor all eggs so that they will be certain that they have covered themselves against losses from this cause the departments special ests advise farmers to use any infertile eggs they may take from their in curators cuba tors tor home consumption and to send only fresh eggs to market |