Summary
The men, in their traditional beards, home-sewn black pants and shirts buttoned up to the neck, are so 19th century. The eggs are washed white, regimented and rolled across a light table, where Kleinsasser scrutinizes each one for cracks or signs of fertilization before feeding them into the clacking, spring-loaded fingers of a mechanical egg loader, which sorts them by weight and then drops them into cartons.
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Extract
With Rising Costs, Egg Industry Scrambled
It's 7 a.m., and the fluorescent light in the Mountain View Colony egg barn lends a bluish tinge to the austere coats of the Hutterite men waiting for Joe Kleinsasser to trip the switch on the "Big Dutchman."
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