Show HOW CHINESE KEEP EGGS A Kentuckian Tried the Process and Found It a Success There Is a way to beat the storago commission merchant and tho old hen herself to have fresh eggs all the tlmo In fact said Marshal Raymond a lawyer of Paducah Ky This jnothod may be as old as tho Chineseat least I learned It In China Chi-na when I made a trip through tho east more than a year ago I happened hap-pened to run Into the American con sulgeneral at Shanghai while over there and when I loft he presented me with what ho said were eggs Although they didnt look like eggs at alllooked Indeed more like elongated elon-gated mud lIes with a stone stuffed in thcmI faithfully brought them home and at last opened one Sure enough there was an egg inside In-side and when it was broken it proved to bo entirely fresh although it may havo been in that mud for a year or more Well with that knowledge knowl-edge of how the Chinamen keep eggs fresh I salted a whole barrel of them I to see how they would do under American mud I bought thorn at the time of year when they wore cheap not caring much whether they kept or not but willing to try tho experiment I burled them under more than a foot and a half of earth and left them for several months When winter came along and eggs went up to some enormous figure I just dug down Into tho earth and pulled out that barrel Opened to tho light of day the eggs looked as It they had just been laid They tasted too as If they had never been put away In the earth for many weeks |