1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
297 
CROPS FOR ORCHARDS. 
I 1>eg to call your attention to an article 
on page 224, which was addressed to R. A. 
Archillion, Ark., by H. E. Van Deman. I 
read this article down to a certain point 
with a great deal of pleasure. When this 
man said, “Never, never, never put an oat 
crop in any orchard,” I thought he knew 
what he was talking about, but when a little 
lower down I saw the following, “All things 
considered, a corn crop is the best for the 
case inquired about,” I almost dropped 
dead. If there is one thing on the face of 
the earth that hurts an orchard worse than 
oats or wheat or other small grain, it is 
corn, and you can plant all the cow peas or 
other legumes you can find with the corn, 
and it will not remedy the matter one whit. 
We have a saying here in Georgia, where 
we plant so many orchards, that “a man was 
so green that he planted corn in his or¬ 
chard.” I was green myself once, and set 
out 40 acres of peaches side by side. In 30 
of them I planted cotton, in 10 of them corn. 
At the end of 12 months there was one tree 
dead out of the 30 acres planted in cotton, 
and whereas the trees were 18 inches high, 
all of them, when set out, at the end of the 
year they range from three to six feet high. 
In the 10 acres where the corn was planted, 
exactly 140 trees died, and as far as any¬ 
body has been able to see since, the trees 
will still measure exactly 18 inches. You 
ought to tell this man, of all things on earth 
not to plant corn in his orchard. Of course 
peas or any legume is good by itself and al¬ 
most any garden crop, and here with us cot¬ 
ton is really a help to the orchard. In other 
words, It will do better with cotton in it 
than without anything in it. M. w. h. 
Macon, Ga. 
R. N.-.Y.—Yet in Virginia we found corn 
the favorite crop for planting In young or¬ 
chards. _ 
Preserving Eggs in Water Glass. 
II. IV., Quincy, III .—I would like to ask 
a few questions about preserving eggs in 
water glass. Price of eggs will probably be 
lowest here in April. Will they keep if put 
down then until next Winter? What is water 
glass? Does any of the chemical soak 
through the shell? Is there any objection to 
water glass; is it in any way unwholesome? 
What is the weakest solution that will keep 
them? Will they keep if a week old or 
more? Can the eggs be shipped or hauled 
several miles and still be kept, or should they 
be placed in liquid and then taken home? 
Will they keep better if kept as cold as con¬ 
venient in Summer? Will fertile eggs keep 
as well as infertile? Do hard-shelled eggs 
keep better than thin-shelled? 
Ans. —The information sought has re¬ 
peatedly been given in The R. N.-Y., yet 
interest in this very practical method of 
egg-preservation is 'so great that fre¬ 
quent repetition seems justified. Water 
glass is really soluble glass—a solution of 
silicate of sodium in water. The solution 
as commonly sold is a clear glycerine-like 
liquid, rather caustic in its action on the 
skin, but not poisonous in any way. It 
is quite cheap if bought in quantity, but 
is usually retailed in pint or pound bot¬ 
tles at 25 cents each. For ordinary use 
one pint should be diluted with nine 
pints of water, thus making a 10 per cent 
solution. This strength has been demon¬ 
strated by thousands of trials to keep 
eggs in perfect condition for one year or 
more if they are placed in the solution 
while perfectly fresh. Good authorities, 
however, say that a two per cent dilu¬ 
tion—one pint to six gallons of water— 
will preserve them equally well. We have 
used the 10-per-cent dilution several sea¬ 
sons with perfect satisfaction, and are 
not inclined to try the weaker prepara¬ 
tion. The water glass does not appear 
to penetrate the shell. The preserved 
eggs seem to be perfectly wholesome, and 
may be used for about all purposes that 
fresh eggs are used for. They occasion¬ 
ally crack if boiled in the shell. Thin 
shelled eggs are objectionable for pre¬ 
serving in water glass or any liquid, as 
they are easily broken, but otherwise 
keep as well as the hard shells. We have 
never noticed a difference of keeping 
quality between fertile and infertile eggs. 
It is an undoubted advantage to keep 
liquid and eggs as cool as convenient dur¬ 
ing the Summer. Eggs should be as 
fresh as possible when placed in the solu¬ 
tion. A stale egg is certainly not im¬ 
proved, and may unpleasantly affect 
others if placed in the same container. 
We would not care to preserve eggs a 
week or more old unless certain they 
were carefully handled, Shipping or haul¬ 
ing eggs should not affect their keeping 
quality if otherwise fresh and sound. 
Every day an egg is exposed to the air 
means a loss of moisture and a corre¬ 
sponding enlargement of the air chamber 
inside the shell, thus making them more 
difficult to preserve without changes in 
composition and flavor. Water-glass so¬ 
lutions must not be kept in metal. The 
containers should be glass, earthenware 
or wood, and the eggs be kept under the 
solution at all times. When taken from 
the solution they should be rinsed, and 
on drying will present a bright and clean 
appearance. They keep about as long as 
fresh eggs when taken out, and seem im¬ 
proved in quality by drying out a few 
days. Eggs carefully preserved last April 
by the water-glass method brought 30 
cents a dozen in the wholesale market in 
December, when guaranteed fresh eggs 
were sold for 36 cents a dozen. 
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GROUND 
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