New-York tribune., 1908-01-03
ON EGG DESlCCATION.
Merchant Says Discovery Reported
by Consul Is Forty Years Old.

THE Germans seem to have just made dscov-
cry regarding desccaton Of eggs with which we
have been familiar for forty years. said an egg
dealer of this city yesterday He alluded TO the re-
port of United States Consul Norton, at <hernnitz,
Germany, which reads:
TIE process was Invented by a chemist Of Vic
torla, Australia; Eggs freed from the shells are
grees Fahrenheit. The operation can be executed
rapidly in containers kept at this temperature from
Likewise TIE @ aqueous vapor is Sithdrawn avn as rf fast
is no alteration in the chemical composition of the
eggs There is simply loss OF the greater part OF
when fruit is dried by free exposure to the air and
sun or by more rapid adteia ella ethSds The Gg
in ordinary packages. The eggs are reconstructed
by the simple addition of water.
1.-The chemist OF Australia need not have agi-
tated his brain to make this discovery" the Egg
said. 1T was a secretary of President Lin
coin. w. o. Stoddard, who perfected process dis
covered by man named Lemont away back in
1863 Mr.. LemoDt's method rather crude. He
used circular disk and his desiccation brought out
flakes at temperature little higher than
80 degrees Mr. Stoddard, after much experiment,
found that better results could be obtained from
drying drum at lower temperature. and his
method q great success. but the panic of 1873
killed the business.
Now that forty years ago. and to-day the
desiccation of eggs in this country is CONNER
cial There factories in st. Louis,
Kansas City, Chicago, Topeka, Syracuse and Bos-
ton. All methods of desiccation, excepting that at
Syracuse, based the Stoddard method The
successful of the latter is the employed
at Topeka where, instead of cylinder, long
running belt is used 10 give the egg more time to
dry
But the best system is tha. used at Syracuse
This is the shot tower method The egg mixture is
carried up tower. where it is forced through a
screen and preciptated. The precipitation comes
down like a yellow snowfall, and the product is
Immediately soluble. Bakers this largely, and
so do the confectioners, but the Topeka product
close second
Both send large quantities Of their product TO
Australia. South Africa and South America To
say that egg desiccation is is, therefore, alb
surd.
"It is absurd when it is considered that the
Chinese, Russians and Syrans lave for over cen
fury desiccated egg albumen, used there ana
throughout the world by confectioners and tanners
Albumen desiccation here does not pay because OF
the high price of eggs, but in Russia and syria
eggs are a drug in the market In China DUCKS
eggs are used for albumen desccaton. and the
product brings the lowest price. They dry the
aIbumen in China Russia and Syria on disks or
fiat pieces of steel and wood in the open air. The
Russian product the best, and recently the cost
has gone up owing to the genera! upset IN social
and business conditions caused by the japanese
..I-nder normal conditions desiccated eggs bring
from Is to So cents pound each pound represent
ing about three and one-haf dozens OF eggs. Al
burnen ranges from Chinese. at As cents, to Rus
sian best, at 20 cents pound.