HOW EGGS ARE MARKETED 
would still be unwise, for the storing, removing and selling 
of a small quantity of eggs would eat up all possible profit. 
The only reliable methods of preserving eggs outside of cold 
storage are as follows: 
Liming: Make a saturated solution of lime, to which salt 
may be added, let it settle, dip off the clear liquid, put the 
eggs in While fresh, keep them submerged in the liquid and 
keep the liquid as cold as the available location will permit. 
Water glass: This is exactly the same as liming except 
that the solution used is made by mixing ten per cent. of 
liquid water glass or sodium silicate with water. 
Liming eggs was formerly more popular than it is to-day. 
There are still two large liming plants in this country and 
several in Canada. In Europe both lime and water glass are 
used on a more extensive scale. 
All limed or water glassed eggs can be told at a glance by 
an experienced candler. They pop open when boiled.. When 
properly preserved they are as well or better flavored than 
storage stock, but the farmer or poultryman will make fre- 
quent mistakes and thus throw lots of positively bad eggs on 
the market. These eggs must be sold at a low price them- 
selves, and by their presence cast suspicion on all eggs, thus 
tending to suppress the price paid to the producers. The 
farmers’ efforts to preserve eggs has in this way acted as a 
boomerang, and have in the long run caused more loss than 
gain to the producers. 
For the poultryman with his own special outlet for high 
grade goods, the use of pickling or cold storage is generally 
not to be considered for fear of hurting his trade. Any 
scheme that would help to overcome the difficulty of getting 
sufficient fresh eggs to supply such customers in the season 
of scarcity would be of great advantage. The proposition of 
pickling a limited number of eggs and selling them for “cook- 
ing” purposes, explaining just what they are, ought to offer 
something of a solution, although, to the writer’s knowledge, 
it has not been done. 
Improved Methods of Marketing Farm-Grown Eggs. 
The loss to the farmers of this country from the careless 
handling of eggs is something enormous. No great or sudden 
change in this state of affairs can be borught about, but a few 
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