Ethel Nielson, Manti, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, August 16, 2004: Saving the legacy tape no. 699

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ETHEL IEL ON ETH: Uh-huh and you'd grab them off. The chex and misshap n gg cheaper. BEC: Would you do that eight hours a day? ETH: Yes. BEC: That could be a tedious job. 1 20 4 uld b ld ETH: It was. Some people would say, "I don't know how you can stand the smell in here." I got so I couldn't smell anything (laughs). It was funny, we sold chex really cheap-that's with little cracks- there's lots of eggs I buy now that the candling, whoever did it, they didn't do their job very well. They always had to have the small end down. You could never have the big part down and the little part up. You're supposed to put the little point down. BEC: ETH: SON: BEC: SON: BEC: Why was that so important? I don't know. I guess because the eggs probably kept better. That's the strongest part of the egg, the point. The small end? I worked at the hatchery in Moroni. The point of the egg is the strongest point. I didn't know that. That's interesting. So your job, too, was to pull them out and put them in their cartons? ETH: Yes, put them in the carton. Like I say, if they had too big a crack, they went in the bucket. It's funny, when he sold baby chicks, too, they had a Japanese sexer that came in. He came in and said, "Where's your bloods?" I said, "The bloods?" He said, "Yeah, I like them better. All they are is a frightened chicken." I said, "I threw them in the bucket. I can give you a couple of cracked ones, but I can't give you any bloods." 12