Description: vintage wood engraved sheet Examining and Packing Eggs for Market date of publication: April 13, 1878 source: Harper's Weekly subject / title: This is a full-page wood engraving, over the title EXAMINING AND PACKING EGGS FOR MARKET. It shows an unusual scene from the agriculture industry, with two dozen male laborers, working in a large cellar, sorting eggs between the farm and customers in the city. overall size of page: 10.5 x 15.75 inches. artist: L. Pranishnikoff condition: excellent, with a few short edge tears in the blank margin, which don't come close to the image. text: Accompanying the engraving will be a photocopy of an article which appeared in the same Harper's Weekly issue, describing the scene. The article is 58 lines of text under the simple title of Eggs, saying in part: This week we give our readers a picture of the work of examining and packing eggs for the market, which has become an important industry in this city. Our illustration . . . was taken in the establishment of Messrs. S.S. Long & Brothers, one of the largest of its kind in the world. . . . This firm receives consignments of eggs from every part of the country, but chiefly from the Western States. The eggs arrive in barrels, each containing about seventy dozen eggs packed in cut straw. On arriving, the barrels are removed to darkened rooms, where they are carefully inspected by men who are technically termed candlers. Two men take a barrel, remove the head, and dump the contents very tenderly upon the floor. . . . rapidly examine each one by passing it between the candle flame and the eye. If good, it is placed in a basket on the side opposite the heap; if bad or cracked, laid on the floor. A day's work for one man is from ten to fifteen barrels. One year's apprenticeship at least is required to make a man a rapid and skilled candler. . . . The candlers keep an accurate account of the loss of each barrel . . . . At this season of the year eggs are not candled, and are sold by the package just as they arrive; but in warm weather every egg is handled and examined. . . . An idea of the extent of the business may be formed from the fact that the firm in whose establishment our sketch was taken receive annually from 80,000 to 100,000 barrels, containing nearly 100,000,000 eggs. . . . one out of many houses engaged in this line of business, indicate the extent of the trade in eggs throughout the country. _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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Location: Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
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