Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-07-30
EGGS AND POULTRY.

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EGGS AND POULTRY.
The poultry value of the United States at
this moment is not far from S25 1000, ,000.-
The poultry kept in the State of New York
alone is probably about SO, 100000; the city
of New York cxpcnds no less than s2,OOO,;-
900 per year for eggs. If every individual
in this city alone would abstain from the use
of eggs directly and indirectly for the space
of one year, and those eggs were at once
put under the hens and Matched, Ret far from
s3s 100000 would be added to the poultry
value of those localities which send eggs to
the vast city. Think of that, yc gourmands,
who ask for rich pastry and cake. If you
who merely visit, and you who reside in the
city of New York, and order the eggs you
consume to be placed in the batching con-
dition, this great addition to the wealth of
the country would result.
One egg dealer in Philadelphia sends 100
barrels of eggs daily to the New York mar
ket The sales in and about Quincy market,
Boston, and by the merchants throughout
the city, in 1S4S, were over $1,000, ,OOO.-
The consumption Of eggs in Paris is equal
to one hundred and forty per year to each
individual, but in New York the average is
about seventy to each person. AT this rate
of consumption it would take nearly 1885,
100000 of eggs to supply the city of London
for single year.
We have alluded to the great poulterer Of
Paris, NJ. de Sord, in late number of this
journal His yards furnish about 10000
dozens of eggs per week. His hens are
never allowed to set; the eggs are Matched
by steam, and every morning a swarm of
chickens is ushered into the world of the
vast feathered tribes on his premises. The
Chinese are prosecuting this Matching by
steam, or artificial heat, at Shanghai. The
process they adopt is very simple but efica-
cious, and the heat employed is rarely over
ninety. three degrees. At the principal es-
tablishment the proprietor according to the
work of an Englishman, Mr.. Sirr-afirms
that be frequently matches 5000 eggs per
day. For some reason this artificial egg
Matching has never succeeded in this country
or England.
Egg testing is an important branch of egg
producing, and the duty the dealer owes to
the public should make him an adept in dis
tingushing good egg from poor one
There is no difficulty in discovering good or
poor eggs. Take them into moderately
dark room and hold them between the eye
and lighted candle. If the egg be good
the light will shine through with reddish
glow, if otherwise, the color will be Opaque
or dark. Picked eggs are excellent eating,
they are prepared by first boiling hard, and
then divested of their shells, placed in
earthen jars, and scalded vinegar poured
upon them, seasoned with whole pepper, all
spice, ginger and cloves. When the pickle
is cold, the jars are closed, and the eggs are
in capital eating order in month after, and
will keep for a year or more. The farm
house epicures hold this dish in high esteem.
The egg comes into marketin another shape,
also, in England at this moment. 1t is cal
led "condensed egg" Itcensists Of the en-
tire substances of the egg very delicately and
finely granulated bypatent process, after the
watery property which the egg contains has
been completely exhausted and withdrawn,
without any change in its remaining charac-
ter. Allthe nutrition of the egg is retained,
and in this state it is very valuable to ship
owners, emigrants and Others. A single
once of this preparation is equal to three
eggs The Chemistry of Common Life, by
Professor johnson, gives an analysis of the
composition of the egg. Hence we learn
that the carbonate of lime of the shell is
one.tenth of its weight, the white six-tenths,
and the yolk three-tenths. The egg loses
three-fourths of its weight by the evapora-
tion of its watery particles. That this de-
partment of rural economy is capable of e1-
tension far beyond its presentlimits, and may
be exerted to wide and profitable range,
increasing wealth without any appreciable
cost, is self-evident, and whether conducted
on large or small scale, the profits are con.
siderable, and the risk and trouble compara-
lively small.-Ne'o York Day Book.