The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28

A Process Which Ii Availab BILE Where
Cold Storage Is Impossible.

| OO1O storage Is lmpOAStbIe.
! Cold storage for the preservation of eggs
! is not available in many cases, so one of
| the experiment stations has been investi-
| eating the most economical and effective
| methods that can be used by farmers for
this purpose, and reports in favor of water
| glass. The spelling of eggs is due to the
! entrance of air carrying germs Of decomposi
| ton through the shells. Originally the
shell has a surface coating of mucilaginous
J matter. which prevents the entrance of
these harmful organisms. but if this coating
! is removed or scftened by washing or other
wise the keeping quality of the egg is much
reduced.
Packing eggs in line, salt and other prod
ucts to keep them for winter are all
based the principle of preventing the
entrance Of these germs. Out of 20 methods
fer the preservation OF eggs tested the
three most effective one were found to be
coating the eggs with vaseline, preserving
them in lime water and preserving them in
water glass.
BY the latter method, the application of
which Goes not cost more than one cent a
Dozen no appreciable difference was OBJ
served in eggs that had been kept from July
to the present date. Fresh eggs could not
be distinguished from either in taste or in
their behavior when beaten up for cake
making.
Water glass is simply sodium or potas-
slim siicate sodium silcate being usually
the cheaper. Water glass can be made at
cost no. exceeding 80 cents a gallon,
and one gallon. mixed with 10 times it's VOL
une of water. is sufficient for the preserya-
ton OF % dozen eggs. The preserving pro-
cess consists in packing strictly fresh eggs
in Jar and pouring the solution over them
in a cool. dark place, such as a cellar.
The only drawback with eggs preserved in
solution Of water glass is that the shells
usually burst in boiling water This NAV
be avoided by carefully piercing the SHELLY
with strong needle philadelphia RECORD
GETS IDEAS WITHOUT MONEY.
There's man who has twenty clever
fellows working for him; they give him
their best brain power, and yet none Of
them have ever secured a dollar for It,"
1t was o'clock in a down town restaur-
ant and the speaker nodded toward a small
dark man who sat at table a few fec
away. The little man is a writer of short
stories of thrilling and dramatic charac-
ter. He is prolific a writer as "Old
Sleuth.'' and makes big income yearly BY
his pen. He lives at hotel down town
and while he has no regular connection with
newspapers his hours are those of a re-
porter on morning journal. Twelve O'Clock
at night finds him in some of the news
paper Offices or at the rooms OF the Press
club in friendly chat with bunch of ali
nighters."
He writes his melodramatic stories up to
a crisis, lays down his pen and walks over
to city room. where dozen reporters
are throwing the last of days writing
into the copy basket. Everybody soon be-
gins to spin yarns.
Curious thing came under my notice q
few days ago., begins the writer of melo-
dramatic tales. He sketches the plot OF
his unfinished story up to the difficult point.
which has stopped him. Now, what do
you suppose happened next" he phloso-
phizes, Ticking the ashes from the end Of
his cigar.
''TlI bet so and so. shouts one Of the
boys.
"Pshaw that's not likely" interposes q
second. People under such circumstances
would have and he finishes the story,
In fifteen minutes the romancer he's half
dozen plausible sequels suggested to hira.
He makes mental note of them strolls one
md over to his hotel with the rest OF htp
materials ready made without sfrO-t on hls
part.
lis that man vampire or q geniux:~
Neither one: . clever. laxy man.