The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-05
ARTIFICIAL EGGS.
Omelets Turned Out in a New Jersey
Factory.

Factory.
From the NeD York Morning Journal
Artificial eggs we're invented some years
ago by an ingenious yankee, and were long
merely curiosity. At first they were too
expensive for general consumption, but res
cent improvements in their manufacture
have reduced their cost, so that they now
come within the reach of the masses.
A new egg factory in New Jersey, which
started after the Mckinley bill was passed,
and is one of the encouraging results of that
bill, announces that it is now in full running
operation, and will soon be ready to turn
out i0, 900 dozen artificial eggs week. 1t
will furnish the eggs, fresh from the factory,
for cents dozen, with per cent. of for
cash. All eggs whose shells are broken will
be taken back and mended.
This low price for flrst-class, fresh-laid.
prime factory New Jersey eggs will enable
the retail dealers in New York to sell them
for 10 cents dozen during Easter. Yet
some people think that the Mckinley bill
has made prices higher. See how it lowered
the price of eggs! Before the Mckinley
bill was passed there was no egg factory
In New Jersey. and now it contains one of
the largest and finest egg factories in the
world. A beautiful town Is growing up
around the egg factory! The factory eggs
made in New Jersey are said to be superior
to any eggs laid by the hens
of pauper labor countries, like
England, Germany, France, China and
Japan. And anyone who eats them has the
| satisfaction Of knowing that he is eating
American eggs. The best New Jersey ex-
perts say there is no difference between
| artificial eggs and hens eggs. Oleomarga-
rine is chemically the same as butter;
American factory eggs are chemically the
same as hens eggs. Indeed, dozen fac
tory eggs were set under hen in Hoboken
and dozen of the most beautiful and chip
per artificial chickens were Matched out. 1t
Is said, though it has not been verified, that
under the wing of each was stamped
American chicken"
The secret of making artificial eggs ts
closely guarded in the New Jersey factory.
All the ingredients are compounded by
chemists in a laboratory. 1t is known that
lime is used to make the shells, while albu-
men, phosphate aud sulphur are employed
in manufacturing the contents Of the eggs.
When they come out of the work room the
egg shells are rough. They are polished by
machinery. The choicest eggs, for the Fifth
Avenue hotel, are given a supertine polish,
SO that they shine like pearls.
A lady in Newark, to indulge in a little
merriment, wore a string of the superfine
egg shells around her neck at a recent sur
prise party. Everybody thought they were
East India pearls of marvellous size and
transcendent value. All were greatly sur
prised when the lady told them that the or
naments they had 80 much admired were
merely egg shells so artistically made that
they had the luster of pearls.
The factory eggs may be fried or scram-
bled. They arc excellent either boiled or
in omelets. They are said to make better
egg-nog than either western or southern
eggs. A delicate flavor may be impaired
to them by various extracts, so that the
purchaser may have eggs favored
with vanilla. with lemon, strawberry
or pineapple. They may be made
every size. from that of a bantam egg to
that of an ostrich egg. Many Of the
New Jersey poultry farmers are up IN arms
against the new industry. They declare
that it will drive the old-fashioned New
Jersey hons eggs out OF the market and
ruin the chicken industry,