212 PROFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



It would not be advisable to preserve eggs on a 

 large scale at first. There is a good deal to be 

 learned before one can venture upon this business. 

 The family supply will be enough to lay down as 

 an experiment. After a year or two of experience 

 and confidence will be soon enough to start pre- 

 serving for the market. 



NEW YORK STATE EXPERIMENTS 



At the New York experiment station a number 

 of methods that could be used with little expense 

 on a small scale for preserving eggs, and also 

 some modifications of these methods, show that no 

 method of dry packing gives satisfactory results 

 whether the eggs are turned regularly or not. 

 iThe best results were secured by keeping the eggs 

 'immersed in solutions either of lime, lime and salt, 

 [water glass, from lo to 20 per cent solution, or a 

 proprietary solution consisting largely of water 

 glass. On the whole, preference is given to a solu- 

 ^tion of lime and salt to which a little boracic acid 

 was added of a specific gravity somewhat lower 

 than that of eggs. The common materials can be 

 cheaply obtained in pure condition, and the pre- 

 served eggs were easier to clean than those from 

 more costly solutions which gave no better results. 

 Though, of course, no preserved tgg could grade 

 with a fresh one, little difference in quality of eggs, 

 as tested by many individuals, could be detected be- 

 tween those preserved in the few efficient solutions.^ 



EGG GATHERING 



Clean eggs always sell at higher prices than 

 soiled ones. In order to secure them, eggs should 



