Smyrna times., 1935-02-28
USE FOUND FOR
EGGS ALL SORTS
Hen Not the Only One Con-
tributing Food For
Mankind
THERE ARE 9TH E r S

WashingtOn.-"Eg mean only
hens eggs to the average reader
something to combine with ham in
the morning or to stir into cakes
or custards for dinner. But in the
complex civilization of the Twenti-
eth century, man finds use for
many kinds of eggs.
"a New York museum did a
thriving business not long ago in
eggs of frogs and salamanders, .
says the National Geographic So
ciety. "Jelly-encased frogs eggs
found floating in great numbers on
top of Long Island ponds were
shipped by the thousands to pub
lie schools. where biology pupils
put them in tanks and watched
them develop into tadpoles.
THE scarcer eggs of salamanders,
found in stream bottoms. were
shipped to research laboratories,
where scientists prefer them to
other eggs in making studies of the
embryo.
Roe. masses of tiny fish eggs.
and caviar. the prepared and salt
ed roe of certain fish. are fayOrite
Gelicacies on our menus. The hest
caviar was long made from the
great white surgeons of Russia.
Present-day caviar. lacking the fine
flavor of the original. is often made
from roe of spoonbills. buffalo fish.
and catfish of lakes and rivers in
the southern United States.
Put to Various Uses.
Fish eggs are put to various
uses. In Brittany, fishermen use
salted cod eggs mixed with flour
as bait to attract sa.lines. Ameri-
can sugar companies in Mexico have
recently imported certain insect
eggs from Cuba In their fight
to exterminate other insects attack
ing sugar cane. And in the past
the United States Department of
Agriculture has made many sim
liar importations.
"Cormorants' eggs from the is
lands off the coast of Peru form q
large item on the diet of Peru
vians. Eskimos eat quantities of
sea birds eggs. In Nicaragua,
hungry natives dig In the sand
for alligator eggs, which contain
large yOlks and are said to taste like
ducks eggs. In Mexico. eggs of GER
tain species of flies are used in
making food paste which is con
sidered a piece de resistance. A
preference equally difficult to un-
derstand is the Chinese predilection
for 'ripened' eggs-hens' eggs which
have been buried in the earth un-
til decomposed to decided de-
gree.
Humans are not. the only crea-
lures with a developed taste for
eggs. Ants and spiders lick their
chops over eggs of butterflies. Fishes
gulp minute eggs of other fish borne
on ocean currents. Unless Peru
vians get there first. they are apt
to find rookeries on the bird islands
of Peru full of rined nests and
broken eggshells. The small green
ish cormorant egg has been de-
voured by gulls and turkey vultures
or pierced and sucked by condors
birds with few enemies lay but
one or two eggs. Most of the north
oceanic birds, such as little auks.
and black-and-whlte guillemots.
which breed on Arctic cliff lodges.
lay but single large egg. Pointed
at one end. 1t rolls in a circle and
so does not fall from the ledge.
The king penguin of the Antarctic
takes especial care of it's egg by
carrying 1t about on top of its foot.
protected by fold of skin The
male and female relieve each other
at this task. Robbed of its egg,
the king penguin may sometimes
be seen ATTEMPTING to shuttle about