The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-04-02
EGGS 81 MACHINERY.
q PLAN TO MAKE THEM Better ANU
CHEAPER THAN HENS CAN.

| How the ingredients are Socured--Ibe
Making Of the sneu Is Really 3, DELI
| cate Piece a. Work.
Patents have been granted to James
Storey, of Kansas City, for the manu-
| facture of eggs.
All the necessary machinery, which
is not worth more than $500 at the out
set, is in readiness to begin this over
whelming competition with the Ameri-
can men. If as much success attends
the new venture as is anticipated by Mr..
Storey, the contest between the ma
chine and the hen for supremacy in the
egg producing business will be short,
with the victory to the credit of the
| former.
Mr.. Storrey's process is very simple,
and yet he is prepared to manufacture
an artificial egg that connoisseur will
find it difficult to distinguish either in
appearance or taste from the prime pro-
duct of Plymouth Rock or Leghorn.
Lime, water, blood, milk, tallow, peas
and one or two other vegetables are the
ingredients of his compound. The shell
and the yolll will not be difficult Of
manufacture. To make good imita-
ton of the white" of the egg is the part
that has required the most ingenuity to
conquer, but Mr.. Storey has succeeded
in solving the problem successfully.
MAKING THE YOLK,
The yolk of an egg is composed of 30
per cent. of yellow fat, IA per cent. of
caSeine, about per cent. albumen and
water. The fat is common animal fat,
and beef fat, which is very cheap. will
be the chief ingredient. To this Il liberal
amount of caseine, which is that portion
of the milk which produces butter and
cheese, will be added, and albumen
mainly from beef blood, together with
water will be mixed in small quantities.
The color, already a yellow, will be
treated with chemical which will serve
a double purpose of deepening the color
and preserving the mixture in IA semi
liquid state until it is cooked.
The white" of the egg is about one
eighth pure albumen, and is difficult
substance to produce chemically. A sub
stance that appears to the eye exactly
similar, and which hardens and whitens
when cooked, has been produced by a
| mixture of legumin, or vegetable albu-
men. extracted from common peas, and
which forms one-fourth of the peas, n
| little albunen from beef blood, a trifie
Of sulphur, considerable gelatine and a
chemical solution to prevent rapid de-
composition, and which also Whitens the
whole bulk when subjected to heat, just
as the egg becomes white when boiled.
AS beef blood will be utilized in very
large quantities in the big egg mill, a
few special cars will be fitted up with
tanks to bring the blood from the Chi
cagO slaughter houses.
MAKING THE SHELL.
The shell will be perfectly initiated by
simple solution of lime, water and glue.
The machinery that is required is needed
mainly in putting the egg together
Every yolk will be first run into mold
to be properly shaped, and then dumped
into second mold, where the righ
quantity Of the white is placed previously
This latter substance, being gelatin(
like matter, will incase the yolk very
readily. BY unique machine the meat
is there enveloped in the shell.
The shell is only partially hardened
| when the egg is put into it, and as there
! is liberal amount of glue added to the
lime, the edges Of the shell soon adhere
to each other very tightly, leaving NJ
traceable mark where they were joined
In order to make the imitation more
completely successful, molds Of severa
sizes will be introduced, making thu
eggs vary in bulk as do the products O.
any respectable flock of hens. The colo
of the shell will also be of two or three
shades. rendering the likeness to the
original still more striking
Tests have been made which SHOW
that the artificial egg can be preserved
for a month under proper conditions
and still taste as fresh as one laid by al
ordinary hen AS all the ingredients o
this reform egg are exceedingly cheap
it can be manufactured at the rate o
about three cents dozen. There vii
be no limit to the capacity of the move
mill, and families and boarding hous
keepers can be supplied in any quaint
ties at prices so dazzlingly small as t.
warrant immediate popularity.-Cincin
natl Enquirer.
| Strange Wants.
They must have Il strange herd o
sheen in New Zealand, where Il settle