Preserving Eggs 
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lage backyard if we begin planning to do 
so now. The secret is to put them away 
at this time of plentitude and keep them 
until the day of great need. 
People who have a good cellar and sell 
their eggs during the summer and fall at 
twelve to fifteen cents a dozen, are making 
a serious mistake. That eggs can be suc¬ 
cessfully kept for many months by means 
of the ‘water glass’ method has now been 
well proven. Such practice is perfectly 
legitimate, for the eggs keep in the best of 
condition, and there is no reason why they 
should not be used. 
The most successful preservative is 
water glass (sodium silicate)—a sirupy 
fluid for sale at all drug stores at prices 
ranging from thirty to seventy-five cents 
per gallon, depending upon how much 
profit the druggist desires. To every one 
part of this substance add nine parts of 
water that has been well boiled and al¬ 
lowed to cool before mixing. Thoroughly 
stir the solution while it is being mixed, 
and pour it over the eggs which have al¬ 
ready been packed in an earthen or wooden 
vessel. Or, the water glass solution may 
be put in stone jars and the eggs added 
daily as gathered. Be sure every egg is 
fresh and clean, and the solution must 
cover every egg all of the time. A gallon 
of the water glass, properly diluted as 
above directed, will be sufficient to cover 
about fifty dozen eggs, which immediately 
discloses the fact that the method is ex¬ 
ceedingly inexpensive. 
The jars of preserved eggs should be 
kept in a cellar or other location where the 
temperature does not rise above sixty de¬ 
grees. Be careful that no eggs more than 
a week old are packed, because one bad 
egg in the lot will spoil all in that jar. 
Also- remember that infertile eggs are best 
to keep a long time—that is, eggs from un¬ 
mated hens. After the mating season is 
over, roosters are a dead loss on the place 
anyway, for hens will lay every bit as 
well without them, if not better. Besides, 
infertile eggs are always preferred to fer¬ 
tile ones for commercial purposes. So, if 
possible, let a few days elapse after all 
males have been kept from the flock be¬ 
fore beginning to save eggs for preserving. 
While fertile eggs may be used if absolute¬ 
ly fresh, yet remember that infertile ones 
always keep better. 
If these simple instructions are observed, 
there is no reason why results should not 
be more than satisfactory in every way. 
After packing, the eggs need no attention 
whatever, and even if held for a number 
of months, they should be perfectly edible. 
Wipe them dry and they will not even have 
the appearance of having been “pickled.” 
This matter of preserved eggs is espe¬ 
cially of interest to the keeper of a small 
flock. The average flock of a dozen hens 
produces practically no eggs in December. 
This is when the pickled eggs come in. 
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