The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-12
PRESERVING EGGS
Agricultural College Advises
Use of Water Glass to Keep
Them Fresh.
MAY AND JUNE THE BEST TIME
Summer Eggs Do Not Keep as Well
as Those Laid Before the
Hot Days Come.

Eggs should be preserved in May
and June for use next winter when
they are scarce and high in price, in
the opinion of F. E. Fox, assistant in
poultry husbandry in the Kansas
State Agricultural College.
There are many methods of preserv-
ing eggs for winter use, such as pack.
ing in bran or salt, or covering in lime
water, but water glass ranks second
only to cold storage, points out Mr..
Fox
Water glass is known chemically as
sodium silicate and can be obtained
at any drug store. Fresh, thoroughly
cooled eggs should be placed in a
stone jar or any vessel provided it is
not glass, and covered with a 10 per
cent solution of water glass.
The containing vessel should be
stored in cool place, preferably an
odorless cellar, having a temperature
of from SO to IS degrees. The vessel
should be covered with a board to
exclude dirt and trash. The only at
tention required is that water be add
ed occasionally, as evaporation causes
the solution to become thick and jelly
like
Eggs preserved in this manner will
be good for use next winter. The
preserved eggs do not absorb any TN
desirable flavors from the water and
are excellent for baking or boiling,
but are not so good for frying, as the
albumen or white of the egg will abb
sorb water from the solution and be-
come watery. If the eggs are to be
boiled the shell should be pierced with
a needle to prevent cracking.
It has been found that summer eggs
do not keep as well as those laid be-
fore the hot days. It will make little
whether they are fertile or not. Eggs
will not spoil if air and heat are ex-
cIuded.
Sold Florence Bulletin. C.
Coates, who bought the Florence Bull
etin last October, coming here from
Alta Vista, today sold the paper to
Herbert Hickman, an employee
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Dies Of Blood Poisoning.-W. S. Lii
Hbridge, 81 years old, living four miles
north of Salina, died today from blood
poisoning as the result Of having
stepped on nail.
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Students Into War ProbIems.-Five
hundred and eighty-four normal stu
dents have pledged themselves to
some branch of study leading to def
mite information on forms of citizen
service during the war.
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Want to Get Rid of "Spy"-Fred C.
Snider, chief of police of Atchison, has
written to the federal authorities ask
ing that man arrested here nearly
a month ago as German spy be
taken off the city's hands.
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Pioneer Woman Dies.-Mrs. Vic.
toria Hess, 81 years old, pioneer of
Atchison county, is dead at her home
west of Atchison. She was a native
of France, but came to America when
a child.
Resigns to EnIist.-The Rev. ]. II.
Hubbard, pastor of the Baptist church
at Horton, has resigned to enter the
army. He has applied for a chap
1aincy, failing in which he will enlist
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Ether Killed Boy-Lysle Scott, 13
years old, who lived near Weir, died
in a doctors office at Pittsburg from
minor operation.
Sheep Kill DandeIions-The dande-
lions golden crown is slipping in Man
haitian. A double drive on this mon
arch of the lawns is proving effective.
The state agricultural college, which
is located there. has practically forced
retirement from the campus. After
futile annual efforts to dig them out
and spray them out with various prep
arations recommended as death to dan
delions but harmless to grass, it was
discovered that sheep consider the
young dandelions delfcacy The col
lege herd was turned loose on the cam
pus with the result that hardly a yell
low bloom shows. The domestic sci
ence department caused the second
drive with a new bulletin by Marga-
ret II. Haggart, professor of domestic
science, on Greens in the Diet" She
recommended dandelions very highly
with the result that the town is doing
its bit in the food economy campaign
by eating dandelions.
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Grant Pipeline Right of Way.-The
Evans-Thwing Refining Company of
Kansas City and Wichita has obtained
from the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company right of way for its pipe
line to the Butler County oil fields.
The pipeline will follow the railroad
tracks. Construction will be begun at
once.
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Bolt Kills Man at PIow.-Lightning
killed Henry Worth, 81 years old, at
his pillow in his field, three miles east
OF Humboldt, recently. His father,
working beside him. was uninjured.
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Western Kansas Will Plant Corn
Planting corn and grain sorghum will
be big part of Western Kansas
share in the world war this summer.
according to the sentiment of an en-