EGG-STAMPER.
A man out west has invented a device to prevent market men from palming off old eggs. The. invention is thus described: —He proposes to arrange a rubber stamp in the nest of every hen, with a movable dale. This date is arranged with a stamp, which is saturated with indelible ink. .'When the hen lays an- egg, as is well known, she kicks lightly with her hind leg. An electric disc is arranged so that her foot touches it, when the stamp turns over on to the ink pad and then revolves, stamping the date on the egg. The hen then goes off about her business, the farmer’s hired girl removes the egg, and replaces the stamp, which is ready for another. On each evening after the liens have retired to their downy roost with the roosters the date of the stamp is changed to the following day, and the good work goes on. In this way there can be no cheating. You go to the grocery and ask for fresh eggs, and the groceryman says he has some eggs of the vintage of March 1 1880, for instance. You look at them and there are the figures, which cannot lie.—American Paper.
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Patea Mail, 4 December 1880, Page 3
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204EGG-STAMPER. Patea Mail, 4 December 1880, Page 3
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