The Daily News. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1902. THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 89, 17 April 1902, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1902. THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

LN spite of the apparent apathy in ionnection with the formation of a Poultry Export Company, we are glad ;o know that great interest is being ;aksn in the question, and -bops that mr repeated attemp s to induce people lere to take the matter up may yet bear fruit. Next to the value of the aird itself is the value of the egg proiuct. There is always a fairly good market for eggs, and there is everj dope that eggs will yet be shippec Home with the game freedom as frozer meat and butter. In building up i market for eggs two very important points have to be kept steadily in view viz., examining and classifying orgrad ing. A useful little publication, calle< the " Feather World," says the lack o system in collecting, examining, an< grading the eggs, received by dealer from farmers, is the chief cause wh; the foreign eggs have secured a prefer ence in the English market. As ii the butter trade, here again the carefu painstaking Dane rules the market How the system is reduced to a fio< art is shown in an extract, showinf the Danish method*, from the Seimtiifi American,. The Danish producer have founded everywhere throughou that country co-operative association! to famish fresh eggs, of good quality for exportation. The majority of thi exporters are enrolled therein. Ragu lations of remarkable ingenuity assur, the regularity of the operation of sucl associations. For example, to ase'er tain by what member a bad egg is sen in, it is required that the shell of even egg shall bear the name of the sender marked with a rubber Btamp, Inrg< depots are established near the railway and to these the eggs have to \» brought at least three times a wee! and all stale eggs are refused. Thi others are classified according to sizi The double operatisn of examinatioi and classification is effected aufcomati cally by means of a very iageniou apparatus which consists cF a durl chamber, where they are examined hi means of a lamp, then to a table where they are classified. With fcbi: apparatus five girls can classify am pack twelve cases of 100 eggs in }'. minutes. In England this method ha been improved upon by saparatinj the examination from the classification The eggs, which are placed in i slightly inclined receptacle, enter cup jqinttd to an endless belt. The lattw in carrying them into the boxes give them a slightly rotary motion. lb< belt is actuated by a small hand-whee placed to the right of the examiner The exsminsr, instead of examinin; the eggs one by one through the ligh* has merely to cast a glance at the row: that are passing over a lamp in order t< eliminate the bad The classify ing apparatus is very simple, and ton sist of a ghss t*bliJ, a portion of whinl is covered with felt. It is bera tbi ei'gs >ire daposited from the b:lt am ->)><! over the glass nirfaca of tin tible T e kt r er is pr ivided with a numbe 'if parallel bars that arrest the differeu size eggs in their passage. The girli who slide the epgs over the table re move those that hdgn between thi bii>s in receptee!-a that flank eacl s ( .-ai:e. I', is claimed fiat lour girl can classify and p.ck 1400 eggs in tei mil ires.'