New-York tribune., 1901-04-07
HENS AND OTHER EGGS.
SOME PEOPLE LIKE THEM FRESH AND
SOME. DON'T.
Washington letter TO The Providence Journal

Washington letter To The Providence Journal
Wherever wild birds eggs found in guam
titles they substituted for hens eggs To
large extent, bcin; cheaper. On the eastern
shore of Virginia eggs of the laughing gull are
commonly eaten and fcW years ago the eggs
90 terms and herons were gathered in immense
numbers along the coast of Texas. ttupkcrIeS
~ sea birds. where. accessible. are commonly
pilaged. the most notable instance in point
being observed on the Faralone Islands, thirty
miles from San Francisco. Fhese volcanic
islets rocky and precptous. are the haunt of
nyriads of INJURIES. pufiins. gulls and corno-
rants and every summer the eggs of the INJURIES
in particular are sought by semi piraticaI
csGers- Ne fewer than 1-ittHp dozen of
H., IN arr collected annually and sent To- san
Francisco. where they fetch ~ cents dozen
at retail y murrcS cSE has about twice the
capacity Of a hens egg. ami is r,TIa rkably well
havorrd Ii is laid ON the bare r"ck. the mother
hird building n" nest and is sharply pointed
at one end, "A provision of nature prevent il
from rolling on IL IL is disturbed il rolls
around as pivot.
OF course. many kinds az eggs arr eaten other
than those Of birds. Turtle eggs are highly
priced wherever thy arr abundant and terra
pm eggs are often served with the flesh Eggs
"f aIIEatufS and oroc"diles (which lock almost
exactly like goose being same. size and
shnT" with hard sheis' considered Il deli
''t'N IN some parts Of the world Shad : a
familiar example of the Of fish eggs as
t"ui ami caViarr is simply sturgeon eggs PIE
served Some savaSes eat the eggs Of certain
insects.
In the Malay Archipelago saI,ed du,k Ks eggs
al" q iaN"rIte article of diet The new laid
'SbS stI'' hcl lur TWO three Wt. ks a
mixture of clay. brick dust and salt after which
they are eaten hard boiled Ducks eggs in
emma are buried in the ground for a wear and
permitted In undergo partial DECOMPOSITION.
being dug up for market the end nf that
time Many such eggs imported in,o this
country Tor use q: Pistaiied eIicures. and
a sample recently examined in San Francisro
ny "a government expert seemed 70 he covered
with hardened clay. When broken il was found
I" contain a partly developed duckIins i.,It the
chinese mere hant said that it was in proper
condition.
The Chinese like laid eggs also and Keen
them fresh hy coating them with mud Ry the
Alaskan t-Suntu, the eggs of wild fcwI are
Preserved IN wairuS " for sale to the
whites. but for their own use any nId
egg will do and an added egg is To them a
udblt. Immense quantities of hens eggs are
shipped from Italy To England for pastry with
shelis removed and packed in air-tight vessels
each containing the whites and yoIks of urI
eggs This method does away with risk of
bIeakage. hut care has he taken thar all
the eggs used are fresh, inasmuch as one had
one viii tant all the rest in a receptacle
Most of these facts brought olIt in :, b,,>
lettn which VIII be published by the penar,ma,.
OF Agriculture about two weeks hence III is
from the pen of DIR &. Ford I.an.vorrbV III
speaks incidentally OF the danger AZ 1;saasa
injection through the medium of hens e,ys in
cases Where attention is not paid To cleanliness
In the hen house and chicken yard The sheu
OF an egg has minute pores throurh which
germs can enter. anu this wav tynhoid ~,
"ther pathoSenic bacteria may he cominunicat-
ed 10 the unSuspectins consumer. An egg sheI,
is provided with natural varnish which hjr
ders the intrusion of such harmful oro,n;,,'.
To some extent, but ii is very imnortant a.,
Keep the laying birds in quarters that are fire.
duehtiy whitewashed and otherwise made SAM
tary.
up OF the white Of an esg was conducted AT