Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-10-18
Eggs With0ut Hens.


The Champion romancer of the New
1 ork Sun, perpetrates the following.
he interviewed the proprietor Of new
tangled 'hen rancho in Newark, N.
d. and persuaded to .sgiye himself
away somewhat:
we are making artificial eggs by a
process OF my own on which / have
put recently received my patents Loox
IN the other room. All the eggs YOU
see there are made in this place. Here
IS one. Let me break it OPEN He
broke itopen and showed me what APP
peared 10 be the inside of a real egg
..Oh, its fact
DO You mean TO say that you made
That egg without the assistance of
HEMP | asked.
Yes he replied, ..and if you wish
| will show you something Of our pro-
cess. Come
He led me through room in which
there We're stored boxes upon boxes of
eggs, and into another large, cool room
in the rear. Everything was clean and
neat. Several strengthening wooden
machines, totally unlike anything / had
ever seen, stood in different parts of
the room. Six or seven men were oper-
ating the machinery, which moved
noiselessly and with great rapidity. l
followed my conductor to one end of
the apartment, where there were three
large tanks or watts. One was filled
with a yellow compound, the second
with a starchy mixture, and the other
was covered. Pointing to these the
proprietor said: .sThese contain the
yolk mixture and the white of egg.
We empty the watts every day, so you
can Judge of the extent of the business
already. Let me show you one of the
machines. Yoa see they are divided
into different boxes or receptacles. The
first and second are the yolk and white.
The next is what we term the skin
machine, and the last one is the shelter,
with drying trays. This process is the
result OF many years. experiments and
expense. | first conceived the idea
after making chemical analysis of an
egg. After very long time succeed
ed IN making very good imitation of
an egg. then turned my attention to
making the machinery, and the result
you see for yourself. Of course it would
not be policy for me to explain all the
mechanism, but I'll give you an idea of
the process. Into the first machine is
put the yolk MIXTURE
What is that?'' / asked.
"Well, it's mixture of Indian meal,
corn starch and several other ingre-
dents. 1t is poured into the opening
In a thick, mushy state, and is formed
into ball by the machinery and frozen.
In this condition it passes into another
box, where it is surrounded by the
white, which is chemically the same as
the real egg. This is also frozen, and
by peculiar rotary motion of the ma
chine an oval shape is impaired to it,
and 1t passes into the next receptacle
where it receives the thin filmy skin.
After this it has only to go into the
shelter, where it gets its last coat in the
shape of plaster of Paris shell, a trlfe
thicker than the genuine article. Then
it goes out on the drying trays, where
the shell dries at once and the inside
dries out gradually. 1t becomes, to all
appearances, real egg"
"How many eggs can you turn out
in day?"
''Well, as we are running now, we
turn out thousand or so every hour"
''Many ordersp''
''Why, bless your soul, yes. We can
not fill one-half of our orders. All we
can make now are taken by two New
York wholesale grocers alone. We
charge Sl3 per thousand for them, and
they retail at all prices, from twelve to
thirty cents per dozen. We sell only TO
the wholesale houses. suppose plenty
of these are eaten in Newark as well
as other places. Col. Zulick, Billy
Wright, Honest Andrew Albright, Joe
Haines, Judge johnson, Judge Henry
and all Newark's candidates for Cover
nor are living on them. They are per-
fectly harmless, and as substantial and
wholesome as a real egg The reason
we made the machinery of wood is be-
cause we found that the presence of
metal of any kind spoiled the flavor
and prevented the cooking of the eggs"