Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-15
ARTIFICIAL EGGS.
THE MASUFACToRY n NEWARK, n. H.
nov THEY ARE MADE AND WHO EATS


this city They began o manuiactur.
ing business, and evidently did lively
| trade. Barrels and boxes were shipped
daily to New York. They employed
score or more OF workmen, who were
reticeut when questioned about their
work ! went into the place the other
day to solicit an advertisement for The
Sunday Call. found the proprietor
an educated and refined gentleman. He
invited me into his Office and ques,
toned him about his business. well"
he replied, after moments hesitation,
u cant say that we wish to advertise,
nor. in fact. to have our business
known but rs it will probably all leak
ont before long, | may as well tell YOU
We are making artificial eggs by pro
cess of my own on which | have but re.
Gently received my patents. Look 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
it open and showed me what appeared
to he the inside Of a real egg. "Oh. it's
n fact"
"Do you mean to say that you made
that egg without the assistance Of
hen?" | asked.
Yes he replied, "and il you wish !
will show You something OF our pro-
cess. Come"
He led me through room in which
there was stored boxes upon boxes Of
eggs and into another large, cool room
il the rear Everything was clean and
Il at Several strange-looking wooden
fpto lrn I l,n
ever seen, stood in different parts of the
room. Six or seven men were operat-
,ng the machinery, which moved noise
less!y and with great rapidity. ! fol-
lowed my conductor to one end of the
apartment, where there were three
large tanks or watts. One was filled
With yellow compound, the second
with a starchy mixture, and the other
vas covered. Pointing to these the
proprietor said: "These contain the
volk mixture and the white OF egg. We
empty the vats every day, so you can
Judge of the extent of the business al
ready. Let me show you one OF the
machines. You 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
iesult OF many years Of experiment and
expense. | first conceived the idea
,fter making q chemical analysis of an
egg. After a long time | succeeded in
making very good imitation of an egg.
then turned my attention to making
:he machinery, and the result you see
or yourself. OF course it would not be
policy for me to explain all the mech
,,nlsm, but III give You an idea OF the
process. Into the first machine is put
the yoik mixture -
What is that?" | asked.
We'll. it's mixture of Indian meal
corn starch and several other ingredi-
ents. 1t is poured into the opening in
a thick, mushy state, and is formed by
the machine into ball and frozen. In
his condition it passes into the other
3ox, 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
machine an oval shape is impaired to it,
and it passes into the next receptacle,
here it receives the thin flny skin.
ftor this it has only to go into the
sheller, where it gets its last coat in the
shape Of q plaster of Paris shell, trife
thicker than the genuine article, Then
it goes ont on the drying trays, where
the shell dries at once and the inside
thaws out gradually. 1t becomes, to all
appearances q real egg.
How many eggs can you turn out in
II day?'
well, as we arc running now. we
turn out thousand or SO every hour"
Many orders?"
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 S13 per thousand for them, and
they retail at all prices, from II to 30
cents per dozen. We sell only to tho
Wholesale houses. / suppose plenty of
these eggs are eaten in Newark as we'll
as in other places Col. Zulick, Billy
Wright, Honest Andrew Albright, Joe
Haines. Judge johnson, Judge Henry,
and all Newarll's candidates for gov
crnot ara living on them. They are
perfectly harmless, and 6s substantial
and wholesome as a real egg. The
reason we made the machinery of wood
is because we found that the presence
Of metal Of any kind spoiled the flavor
and prevented the cooking OF the
eggs"
Can they be boiled?"
"Oh, yes" and he called one of the
men. Here, Jim, boil this gentleman
az egg,
Can they be detected ?' I inquired,
while tie bogus egg was being boiled,
Il hardly think that anybody would
he likely to obaerve my difference nm
less he happened to be we'll posted. "a
they look md taste like the real thin.-.
We can, by little ilayoring, make them
taste like goose or duck eggs, OF couraa
altering the size. They viii keep ior
wears. That one you have just eaten
was nearly year old. They never
spoil nor become rotten, and, being
harder and thicker III their shells, they
will stand shipping better than real
eggs. We calculate that in few year.
we viii run tine hens Of the country
clean out of business, as oleomargarino
has driven out butter We have curl
GUS order to ill next year of lot Of
ditlerent-eolored Easter eggs. by an
Improvement in our machinery we con
template turning them out hard boiled.
ON, it's big thing, and capable, 1 sup
pose, Of being brought to still greater
perfection. One of my employees here
insists that if ] go to work at it can
invent a machine which will run the