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Show HOW TO PRESERVE EGGS. jlr For Keeping Eggs In Small Quantities -jll Water Glass Is Best. II Water glass Is claimed to bo' tho il best egg preservative of nil, aside IV trom cold storage. For tbo person who desires to put up only a limited number of eggs cold storage Is Imprnc Heal. At various experiment stations water glass has been successfully used and It hns been found to bp cheap, simple and successful. Wntci glass (or sodium sallcate) can bo obtained ob-tained from nearly any druggist There nro several kinds or water glass, but ror egg preserving purposes only i the best should bo used and tho cost should not exceed 50 cents a gnllon. A i large Btono Jar Is tho best vessel In which to put tho preservative, and before be-fore uslny tho Jar It should be thoroughly cleaned with hot wnter. To ton quarts of water that has been boiled and cooled add ono quart ol -s water-glass and sot tho Jar In a cool. i dark placo, covering tightly to prevent 4. evaporation. : Each day as the eggs aro gathered drop them carefully Into the solution. To keep well the eggs must bo strict- ; Iy fresh not over threo days old nnd comparatively clean, An egg with a badly soiled shell should not bo used, and undor no circumstances ! should tbo eggs be washed before pluc- lng in the solution, as tho washing ' process opens up tho pores of tho ' shells, which Is detrimental to tho keeping qualities of tho eggs. Be sure J that thero aro fully two Inches of the 1 solution covering the eggs at all times I thttfarftat-BS-ffir JuT-Ib TmedlTio 1" eggs do not como to within two Inches of the top of tho solution. Eggs pre- served by this method will keep nicely nice-ly for from six months to a year, and will come out of the Bolutlon nppar- jl ently ns fresh as when thoy were put m In. H. D. Halnoy. ' |