The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-02-16
Wadsworth Dispatch,
PUBLISHED
So 90 Per Annum,
HARD BOILED EGGS.
CAHADlAN FARMER WILL TAKE THEM
TO THE KlONDlKE.

=" nave uncovered a Process For
Preserving Fresh Eggs-Cooked Them
Last hummer and Packed Them In Soft
Clay-Expects to Reap u Fortune.
The anxiety of the Dominion author
tiles to do all in their power to send
provisions 10 the klondike miners this
winter has been the means of stimulat-
ing people inter ,sted in the question to
the invention Of some novtl ideas, but
the most curious is that of a farmer who
Intends to make a trip to the new min
ing region as soon as the spring weather
opens with a load of hard boiled eggs.
Jason Edwards is not a visionary theo-
iist, but a bard headed business farmer.
who OWNS one of the largest poultry
farms a few miles east of Toronto. His
annual supply OF eggs numbers nearly
zoe. 900.
Il have discovered at last a method
OF preserving eggs in perfectly fresh
condition, he said, but | shall not be
able to make use Of the discovery until
nezt summer, when the eggs are plenty.
shall begin next season and preserve
every egg that my hens lay. and by the
middle of winter | shall begin to mar
ket them on a W holesale scale.
"But meanwhile l have made another
discovery. Last August, when the rush
for the Klondike started, | began to
think CT some way OF reaping q profit
out of 1t. l knew l was 10 miner and
that | would die before | could get rich
digging for gold. but if g & would
make my fortune | would get there.
What don't know about eggs and hens
amt worth knowing. An idea struck
me, or, rather. | stole my idea from Lii
Hung Chang when he visited New
York. To say we can t learn anything
from the Chinese is making a pretty
broad statement. Now come down into
NV storeroom and look at my cargo
t. t | shall carry to the Klondike in
early spring."
He leo the way down into an under
ground cellar. where there were numer-
ons barrels and boxes piled up in tiers.
Opeping one Of these, he disclosed to
view the II ost curious looking eggs that
IA man eve saw. They were of a dark
clay color and rough to the touch. In
fact, there WA nothing about them to
Indicate that they were eggs except their
oval form.
Don't look much like eggs, do they?
No. they don't. Eut wait until l break
one."
Ee gave the egg q sharp crack with a
knife handle, and it cracked III two. AS
the shell fell apart it revealed the white
hens egg inside. The part that was out
side was nothing but a husk-an arti-
fetal covering Of clay. When this was
peeled off. the eggshell looked very
natural, hnt when it was broken open
the white part Of the meat was tlnged a
little with green. and the yolk was a
shade darker than that of the ordinary
esq.
Nov eat it aud see if it isn't good.
| don't believe you could tell it from a
fresh hard Boiled egg. Yet Boiled that
egg late last August, and it will lie Just
as good next summer as it Is today. 1t
would make delicious eating to the
miners in the Klondike, who rarely get
eggs or fresh meat. | have preserved
thousands of them in this way, and |
shall sell them to the miuers in the
Klondike next suRmer. They are as
cheap to transport as meat. and eggs
bring far, more than meat up there. No
body has attempted to take eggs They
have carried canned goods and milk of
all kinds, but Eggs have been omitted
from their bill Of fare,
How did | do it. Well. simply this
way: | boiled the eggs hard, and then
while they Were hot | lacked them III
SOFT clay and put them in u cecil place
to dry. In this condition they will keep
forever. | understood that Ii. Hung
Changes. oolnmissariat brought to New
York with him eggs preserved IN this
way that We're reputed to be 1000 years
old. | thought | would try the expert
ment. and, sure enough, it worked.
have some. dick eggs that are treated
in u similar way. have followed out
the Chlnese method i'll this instance
too. Instead Of using clay for covering
the shells ! take u paste of charcoal.
This has even u better preseryntiNe ef'
feet upon the cSgs than the clay. and |
wish now that | had USED 1t on tAe
hens eggs.
Il expect TO start for klondike III
March and get there i'll tine for the
rush. 1 eX..ect to get about 81 apiece tor
my hard tollcd esgs, There may be a
d.aLCsitlcn at first not ~ uccept SUI a
. uall..r ,ilet, Tut u little demon.tra-
zion will s;risfy any one that the eggs
are Us coed us fresh ones. If you like
your eggs seIv,d lot, drop them Ill
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