SORTING OF EGGS
POUR GRADES OP WEIGHT NEW MACHINE IN OPERATION Eggs were op the roll ope day this week at the Auckland city markets when Air. E. C. .larrett, Government poultry instructor and grader of eggs for export, inspected a new machine for grading eggs by weight and testing for quality. The machine has been installed at the markets, and is said to be the only one in use in either Australia or New Zealand. It is .ah English .invention, and was .first, used by the Ministry of Agriculture, in England. It. consists of four tracks, each with four traps, through which the eggs fall according to si/e and weight. The average capaeiay is 2250 eggs per hour,..the machine being fed by- one girl, with a second girl to empty the traps into the grading boxes. Prior to the use of this machine grading has been done by hand. “I. think that is just. 0.K.,” said Air. Jar ret t. ‘‘lt is the thing that was wanted. It seeihs to effect perfect grading.” , Flic testing apparatus lias hot; yet been installed on the machine; It will tekf, UP to. —OOO eggs all hour. An, edge trie, Ijg'h.t % lisejf yhich ' permits! eggs to tie li 4 n(tied singly in diffused daylight.—Star.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 10
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