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In honor of May being National Egg Month, we are featuring an item from the museum’s poultry collection. Used by poultry growers, egg stamps are used to label or brand a grower’s eggs for market. This “Chick Egg Stamp” has a wooden handle with a small plunger. When the plunger is pushed down the rubber stamp end marks the egg with blanks to write in the date the egg went to market and another blank for the date the egg was laid. With this information, a buyer knows if they are getting the freshest eggs and who the producer is. This stamp reads “Glenn O. Morris, Brandt, SD.”