Show FINDS NEW WAY TO STORE EGGS small amounts of carbon dioxide will be big aid eggs can be better preserved it if they are stored where thero thera Is a certain amount of carbon dioxide la in the air according to paul F sharp of the new york fork state college of A agriculture who tins has just published the recalls of some experiments on oa eggs la in science eggs stored in ordinary air spoil rapidly after they lose the carbon dioxide which la is a part of the eggs egg As soon boon ns as ao an ess egg Is laid it starts to become more alkaline and this hastens decay this tendency how flow ever can be easily and conveniently neutralized anil and controlled if the eggs are placed where the air contains small email amounts of carbon dioxide this discovery has a practical re suit cult because carbon dioxide can be introduced into cold storage rooms in amounts which greatly retard the de changes in the eggs and yet the amount in the air will not be enough to prevent workmen from entering the storage rooms carbon dl oxide can bo be used also in shipping sll pili containers and in refrigerator cars A convenient source of tills this gas can be used such as the solid form or the gas form in cylinders professor sharp says the only method of preserving eggs which approaches this one in cheapness and practicability Is the oil dipping method in which eggs are dipped in a suitable oil which very nearly seals the pores the carbon dioxide method Is superior to the oil off method because the whites of the oil dipped eggs become cloudy in storage those preserved by the carbon are not cloudy after the eggs are removed from the air which contains the carbon dioxide |