Eggs To Market (1964)

Every day, tins of eggs are rushed to market. Fresh eggs that were laid less than 24 hours ago on an egg farm like this one. How can so many eggs get to market so quickly? [Music] Riding a motor-driven cart, one farmer is able to take care of thousands of chickens. Using a scoop, he feeds them twice a day. The food, a special mixture of grains and vitamins, helps keep the chickens healthy so they can produce good eggs. The farmer also gives them plenty of fresh water to [Applause] drink, and he fits special plastic blinders on them so they can't peck each [Applause] [Music] other. The farmer uses his motor-driven cart to collect the eggs several times a day while they're still very fresh. The eggs are immediately taken to a processing plant. Here, workers and machines prepare the eggs for market. First, the eggs are washed and scrubbed. A moving belt takes them through the washing machine. [Music] [Music] use. Using rubber suction cups, a worker picks up the eggs 30 at a time and transfers them to a roller [Music] belt. The roller belt moves the eggs into a darkened room. Inside, the rollers turn the eggs over a very strong light. This is called candling. Candling makes it possible for the workers to inspect the eggs without touching them. They remove the eggs that are not perfect. [Music] The perfect eggs go onto a sorting machine. Large eggs weigh more than small ones. So by weighing each egg, the machine can sort them into different sizes. Extra large, the heaviest, large, medium, and small the lightest. [Applause] [Applause] Each size group is moved to a separate packing machine. [Music] [Applause] The eggs are automatically placed six at a time into cartons. [Music] These feelers check the cartons to be certain they are full. If an egg is missing from a carton, the machine stops automatically. A red light goes on. It's a signal to the [Music] [Music] operator. The operator adds an egg and the machine starts to fill the cartons again. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] One moving belt carries the closed cartons to this worker. Another belt takes the wire baskets into a room which is kept about as cold as your refrigerator. The eggs will stay here for a few hours until they're shipped to market. [Applause] [Music] Some eggs are taken to this room. Here, paddic machines break them. Inside the machine, the shells are removed and the eggs poured into cups. As they come out, an operator makes certain there are no shells left. This comb helps separate the eggs into whites and yolks. The eggs are packed in large barrels for bakeries and other customers who use them in quantity. [Music] During the night, workers load cartons of eggs from the cool room onto the trucks waiting outside. [Music] [Music] Early in the morning, truck drivers deliver the eggs to supermarkets. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Finally, market clerks placed the eggs in refrigerated cases. Eggs that were laid less than 24 hours ago. Many skilled workers using many different kinds of machines make it possible for us to eat fresh eggs every [Music] [Music] day. Heat. Heat. [Music]