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ELEVEN farms were visited during the spring and summer of 1932 and 1933 and eggs were secured from each for studying the storage quality. Eggs were also obtained from three additional farms which were not visited. The general location of the ground used by the chickens, feed, management of the flocks, housing conditions care of eggs, health of the flocks, sanitary conditions, kind of green feed available, access to feed lots, barn yards and manure piles were factors that were carefully observed. The number of eggs received from each farm varied from thirty-four eggs to twenty-one dozen. All eggs were candled and those unfit for storage discarded. A few eggs from each farm were broken to secure a measure of the interior quality. After five to eight months of storage, all eggs were again candled and broken for examination. The average daily temperature was 90 to 100°F. When most of . . .