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Show Champion Egg Tetter The "egg wizard" Is the name given ? Miss May Norton of the United Dairies, London. She can toss them about as a Juggler does billiard balls, but her specialty Is passing them In front of a light at the rate of 1,4-10 on hour. Miss Norton's ofllclul title Is egg tester. It is her Job to see whether nn egg is new laid, fresh, or on the stale side. She does It by a present-day candling method, which consists of putting a black metal box with a hole at one end around an electric elec-tric globe and letting the rays strike through the eggs when held up to the I aperture. In response to a challenge I by a farmer. Miss Norton once tested 300 eggs In twelve minutes. Since she started she has not had a single break. |