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PRESERVATION OF EGGS. TA 
shell, and that keeps out the air. Let them 
cool, wipe dry and pack in oats, ashes or salt, 
and they may be kept a year. 
The eggs may each be closely wrapped in 
paper after treatment, or the paper alone is a 
ereat protection, as it is nearly air-tight. 
Dealers sometimes use boards, with holes 
small enough to prevent the eggs slpping 
through, but large enough to keep them upright. 
More often egg-cases are supplied with paste- 
board divisions, each space large enough to hold 
an egg. 
AUSTRALIAN METHOD OF PRESERVING EGGS. 
Glass jars with patent stoppers having vul- 
canized India rubber joints, making them per- 
fectly air-tight, are used. 
These jars are placed in hot water until the 
air in them is warm and rarefied. 
As soon as the eggs are collected they are 
wrapped in paper to prevent knocking, and are 
