The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-25

ter, and in France they similarly ust
olive oil in which a little beesWax i!
| dissolved or melted. The latter is th'
| better of the two, butter becoming ran
| cid, Others bed the eggs in dry salt
| packed tightly round and over them
kept this way they do fairly, even fol
| boiling, up to six or eight months
Bedded in bran alone they will keeI
well several months, draught and eYap-
Grafton being prevented,
Another plan is to pack them in sat
| urated saltbrine; this way they keeT
quite ''good" the while, but become
rather hard and the white pereeptibly
saltish, For eggs to be kept any ength
of time, however, there is no doubt thai
the best preservative modicum is q so
luton compounded of lime, salt anG
cream of tartar. Different people use
slightly different proportions; II very
good recipe is as follows: Carefully
Stake and then pour the rest Of two gal
Ions of water (other quantities in pro-
portion upon one pound and half OF
quiclllime, then add ten ounces of salt
and two ounces of cream Of tartar.
Stir at intervals and leave to temper to-
gether for a rev days; then pour off the
clear liquor, and imbed the eggs in it
as closely as possible, keeping always
well covered with liquid. A jar Of
spare liquid should always be ready to
fill up as required, Whatever process
be used, it is important to store or treat
the eggs the same day as laid If they
are fertile eggs But there is no doubt
at all, and it has been proved by many
experiments that sterile eggs, laid by
hens without g mate, keep considerably
better than fertile ones.
In America, though several good tank
machines are still employed, and work
wen enough, the hot-air system is far
the most in use. One reason for Amer
lean preference Of the hot-air type ap-
pears to be greater economy of oil,
which on a large scale becomes of i'm
portance. When we state, however,
that the latest and best makes Of these
machines are able entirely to dispense
with moisture, it will be seen that they
register a real advance, and must be
allowed to take the lead in efficiency
and saving of trouble combined. AL
most universally they employ efficient
metallic thermostats, which do not vary
with the barometric pressure, as do
those which, depending on vaporization,
are liable to several degrees of f1uctua-
ton independent Of outside tempera-
ture. While the tank system ''steadies"
this and works well with capsule regu-
lators and careful attention, the much
more sensitive hot-air system could
only have been perfected with thermo-
stats allowing much less variation. 1t
Is a remarkable fact that the atmos-
pheric principle should be so decisively
preferred in country distinguished for
extremes of temperature, and where ar
tificial incubation Is carried on upon a
scale utterly unknown in England, and
rather difficult to realize One manu-
facturer in Quincy, ILL.,. states that he
sold 14,S00 machines in 1899 and other
makers in the same town (Which seems
n kind Of center for this manufacture,
as Coventry Is in England for bicycles)
would together total about as much
more; another firm in another state, of
good repute, but not in the first rank,
sold six thousand in the same year
London Book Of Poultry