The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-01
Eggs without Hens.

The champion romancer of the New
Y rk Sun perpetrateS the following.
He interviewed the proprietor of
new-fangled "hen rancho" in Newark,
n. j., and persuaded him to give
himself away" somewhat:
ave are making artificial eggs by a
process of my own on which l have
but recently received my patents.
Look III the other room. An 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 be the inside of
real egg. "Oh, it's a fact"
do you mean to say that you made
that egg without the assistance of
hen ?" l asked.
Yes he replied, land if you wish 1
will show you something of our pro-
cess. Come"
He led me through room in which
there were stored boxes upon boxes
of eggs, and into another large, cool
room in the rear. Everything was
clean and neat. Several strange
looking wooden machines, totally I'M
like anything l had ever seen, stood
in different parts of the room. Six or
seven men were operating the ma
chinerY, which moved noiselessly and
with great rapidity. l followed my
conductor to one end of the apart
ment, 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 pro-
prietor said: "TheSe 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. 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 result of many years
experiments and expense. 1 first con.
celved the idea after making chemi.
cal analysis of an egg. After very
long time succeeded in making q
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 thu
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 AM
frozen. In this condition it passes
into another bon, where it is sur
rounded by the white, which is chem
ically as the real egg. This is alst
frozen, and by peculiar rotary mo-
tion of the machine an oval shape i
. impaired to it, and it passes into tn
next receptacle, where it receives tn
: thin filmy skin. After this it has onl,
to go into the shelter, where it get
} its last coat in the shape O
| plaster of Paris shell, trifle thicke
) than the genuine article. Then it goe
out on the drying trays, where tn
, shell dries at once and the inside drie
out gradually. 1t becomes, to all ap
pearances, a real egg"
GLOW many eggs can you turn on
} in a day"
"Well, as we are running now, WI
turn out a thousand or sc every hour.
4 "Many orders 2"
n why, UlcSo YOUR oOu1, yes W.
cannot fill one-half of our orders. Al
2 we can make now are taken by tw,
New York wholesale grocers alone
We charge $13 dollars per thousan,
! for them, and they retail at all prices
9 from twenty-five to thirty cents pc
. dozen. We sell only to the wholesal
/ houses. Isuppose plenty of these ar
I eaten in Newark as well as ethe
places. Col. Zulick, Billy Wright
Honest Andrew Albright, Joe Haines
Judge Johnson, Judge Henry and al
= Newark's candidates for governor ar
living on them. They are perfect
harmless, and as substantial an
wholesome as real egg. The reasol
;; we made the machinery of wood i
) because we found that the presenc
) of metal of any kind spoiled the fiavo
J and prevented the cooking of tn
eggs"