POULTRY LORE.
PRESERVING EGGS. If ‘C. E. P. S.’ will take a friendly advioe, she (?) will not gfudge the extra trouble of having to unearth the eggs from a rather dry bed of lime. It oerfcainly should not be like * cement,’ but it is greatly owing to its dryness and bardoess (in fact, forming an airtight case round each egg) that she has such satisfactory results. If the vessels containing the eggs are allowed to stand on a cellar floor the lime will never pecome so hard but that with a three-pronged steel fork they can be dug out quickly and well. If the lime is too moist it rather discolours the eggs, and slightly spoils the quality, while with what is called lime-water whole jars have been known to go bad after the outer crust has been broken. It will be quite safe to preserve eggs now for use next winter, though I should hardly thin!-, ti.-y Cave touched their lowest point yhi. 'At present we are using the last layer ot twenty dozen, put up in the end of April, ISS7, aud not a bad egg in the lot,—A. L. O. B.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 873, 23 November 1888, Page 18
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