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Show WILL READILY ABSORB ODORS Eggs Can Oe Influenced to a Remarkable Remark-able Degree by Nature of Their Surroundings. No other nrtlclo of food is moro Busceptlblo to tho influence of Its surroundings than eggs. New-laid eggs do not nlwoya havo tho samo flavor. Tho food and environment en-vironment of tho fowl aro reflected In the tnBto of tho eggs Hens fed upon onions for a few days will ylold the onion taste In tholr eggs within n weok Kggs that nre laid In foul-smelling foul-smelling stables will have tho odor of tho nest. Kgga that aro laid In the country store In tho samo room with grocerlos will bo Injured In flavor In a short time. Eggs that tho kept too near tho kitchen stovo or In damp cellars are Injured. Eggs that have beon rained upon or havo been wot from any sourco It will becomo musty In a faw hours. Eggs oven taste of tho box board In which thoy aro crated for shipment. ship-ment. Somo epicures And the eggs with n tinted shell to bo of finer flavor than tho eggs with a white shell. A whole roomful of eggs packed pack-ed and In storago havo hoen known to tnk tho flavor of lemons stored In tho samo building but separated from tho eggs by a brick wall. Tho tosto of an egg Is aUo Influ-enced Influ-enced by tho seasons, Spring eggs, when tho fowls nro at tholr host, havo a bettor character and finer flavor than tho eggs of tho hot sum-, mor woathor, when the food of tho fowls Is moro varied and tho summer heat has lessened their vitality, Eggs that aro Morcd nt tho right tomporaturo in a woll-ventllated room will glvo oft a largo part of tho odors thoy havo nbsorhod. Eggs moro than a weok old aro not strictly fresh, but If thoy aro pio-duced pio-duced right and go quickly Into tho right kind of Btorago thoy will rotnln tholr original character, with tho exception of n tnsto of tho Btraw board surrounding them, for soveral months, and will bo as Bwoot nnd wholosomo for most domestic uses for ten months. That Is as long as Is nocessary. for by that time the crop of new-laid eggs will bo nt hand, |