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CHAPTER VI. 

 Eggs of Various Kinds as Food. 



Eggs of Domestic Poultry — Nutritive Value and Chemistry of 

 Eggs — Average "Weight of Eggs — Quantity and Values of our 

 Imports of Eggs^Range of Prices — Number Keceived from 

 France — Estimated by Weight on the Continent — Testing 

 Eggs — Egg Traffic of the United States and Canada — Prices — 

 Condensed Eggs — Various Modes of Preserving Eggs — Pickled 

 Eggs — Easter Eggs — Ostrich Eggs — Emeu Eggs — Plovers' and 

 Lapwings' Eggs — Eggs of Sea Fowl — Gulls — Terns — Penguins 

 — Petrel — Albatross — Eggs of Reptiles — Turtles — Land Tor- 

 toises — Alligators — Lizards' Eggs — Snakes' Eggs — Insects' 

 Eggs — Fish Spawn — Cod Roe — Herrings' Eggs — Sturgeon 

 Caviare — Modes of Preparing — Roe of Sandre, Bream, etc. — 

 Mullet — Fish-bread from Roes — Mode of Preparation — Eggs 

 of Crustacea — Lobster Spawn. 



Omnivorous man feeds indiscriminately on a great 

 variety of animal products ; and among others, the 

 eggs of Birds, reptiles, and fishes contribute somewhat 

 largely to his sustenance. Let us first take a glance at 

 those of Birds, which are the most important, and then 

 notice some others. 



It is a curious study to pass in review the number, 

 size, form, weight and colour of eggs, according to the 

 different species of birds, and the inferences we may 

 draw in natural his'tory from these oological characters 

 in classifying the birds. According to the number of 

 eggs they lay, birds may primarily be grouped into two 

 great classes. Those which are destined to furnish food 

 for man, as the Gallinaceous tribes, lay the greatest 

 number of eggs ; and when we find that in domes- 

 tication the ostrich has laid as many as seventy-two to 

 eighty-four eggs, we have reason to think it may shortly 

 be ranked among regular domestic poultry. 



The eggs of all domestic poultry are edible, but it is 

 only those of the hen in which there is any very extensive 



