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WORKS. See adv.
SECOND-HAND GOODS. T. VERNON-Miller, Chas. E. B.
SEEDS.
CENTERBURG-BURRER, G. J., & CO. See adv.
UPDIKE, T. D., & SON. See adv. MT. VERNON-HILDRETH, C. R., 14 E. Front St. See adv.
G. W. WHEATON Delaine Rams
hat will shear 25 pounds to the fleece-white wool with white oil (not yellow grease). Good mutton type. R. D. 2, DANVILLE, OHIO Call or Write Before Buying. Telephone, Danville Exc.
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SEWING MACHINES.
MT. VERNON-Sharp, George W. Singer Sewing Machine Co.
SHEEP BREEDERS.
CENTERBURG-Hawkins, H. W., & Sons DANVILLE-WHEATON, G. W. See adv. FREDERICKTOWN-BURSON, C. S., & SONS. See adv.
MT. VERNON-JACKSON, C. B. See adv.
Jenkins, J. H.
PICKERING, MANVILLE. See adv.
ST. LOUISVILLE-OATMAN, ALEX. adv.
SHOES.
CENTERBURG-McGuire, E. E. Silliman, S. U.
DANVILLE-HENLEY, G. A. See a FREDERICKTOWN-Brown, H. E. LEVERING, F. B. See adv.
GAMBIER-Jacobs, A. Jacobs, Leroy
MT. VERNON-FISH & LYBARGER Main St. See adv.
Guaranty Shoe Store
Kerner, Mrs. Barbara M.
Harry J. Smith
Breeder of Jersey Cattle
R. F. D. No. 3
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
The Hinge Door Silo The Silo That Gives Satisfaction
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Because of the doors on hinges, always in place and al- ways closed, helps keep silage perfect.
Come in-see our model- look at the safe ladder, the steel frame, perfect anchoring system. Ask for our offer on a Lansing Silo or the famous Light Running Silberzahn Sil- age Cutter.
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NIFTY FOOT WEAR B. F. LEVERING
Shoes Boots, and Rubbers For the Entire Family
THE PLACE THAT BRINGS YOU BACK
PHONE, WE DELIVER BY PARCEL POST
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"WE HAVE THE SHOES YOU HAVE THE FEET"
RALSTON
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LET US FIT YOU-
SHOES AND BOOTS FOR MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN
COURTEOUS TREATMENT REASONABLE PRICES
MAIL AND PHONE ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED
FISH & LYBARGER
SO. MAIN ST. MT. VERNON
AT THE SIGN "ELECTRIC SHOE"
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SHOES-Continued.
MT. VERNON-Levison, Joseph Levy, Joel Parker, H. Clay Parr, Silas
SPITZER, HOWARD, 11 S. Main St. See adv. Wear-U-Well Shoe Co. Weaver, Charles G.
SHOE REPAIRING.
MT. VERNON-Barry, Garrett M. Faust & Ewing Garber, Michael
ITershler, Nicholas Sapp, John H.
H. M. ZULANDT TAILOR FOR MEN
6 E. VINE STREET
MT. VERNON, OHIO
A Personal Invitation to Buy Your Shoes
W THERE you get your feet FITTED, for COMFORT, for SER- VICE, with STYLE. Your MONEY'S WORTH and a Profit shar- ing Coupon BESIDES with every cash purchase.
A GOLDEN RULE Policy in treat- ment and a glad hand with every call.
Appropriate footwear for everybody and for every occasion.
HOWARD SPITZER
Knox County's Biggest Value- Giving Shoe Merchant 11 S. Main Street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio
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More Farmers Should Build Silos
But-before building do not fail to investigate the Sudiana. They keep the ensilage perfectly; are as dur- able as a Silo can possibly be made. Easily put up, and so reasonable in price and sold on such terms that no farmer should be without one. Notice the sub- stantial door frame, which is the back- bone of a Silo, and the self-locking doors and the splice in the staves which makes a two-piece stave practically equal to a one-piece and much cheaper. I will sell you a Silo and help you put it up, if you wish. Can save you money on a cutter also.
We keep Jersey Cattle and usually have some good young stock for sale.
C. A. Blubaugh BUCKEYE CITY OHIO
Kalamazoo
Earn Cost-Then Pay SILOS
Made of Tile and Dif- ferent Kinds of Wood
Also the Michigan Hip Roof, Frost Proof, weight anchors itself, ample hoopage gal- vanized.
Capacity-Economy-Safety- New-Different
We sell the cutter with the largest capacity using the least power.
Breeders of Registered and Eligible to Register Shorthorn Cattle, Delaine and Shropshire Sheep.
Quality Barred Plymouth Rocks. Stock and Eggs at Reasonable Prices.
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H. W. HAWKINS & SONS
Citz. Phone CENTERBURG, O.
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SILOS.
CENTERBURG-HAWKINS, H. W., & SONS. See adv.
MT. VERNON- SMITH, HARRY J. See adv. Wilson, J. L.
TAILORS.
CENTERBURG -- DARLING, R. B., & CO. See adv. McGuire, E. E.
GAMBIER-Singer, Chas. G.
MT. VERNON-Berry, Samuel C. Doelfs, John R. Dunn, George E. Freydl, Leo W.
Glore & Roberts
Metzgar, J. C.
Wagner, Gordon C. Wrentzel, A. B.
Wuchner, Ed.
ZULANDT, H. M., 6 E Vine St. Sec adv.
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE COMPANIES.
BLADENSBURG-Mount Vernon Telephone Co., The
CENTERBURG-Central Ohio Telephone Co., The
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BOTH PHONES Phone calls answered promptly day or night
D. H. PURDY Funeral Director CENTERBURG - OHIO
AMBULANCE SERVICE IN CONNECTION
AUTO SERVICE IF DESIRED
HILAS H. MILLER
EVERETT B. MILLER
MILLER BROS. Funeral Directors and Embalmers MT. VERNON, OHIO AMBULANCE SERVICE DAY OR NIGHT CIT. PHONE 371 - -
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TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE COMPANIES-Continued.
FREDERICKTOWN-Mount Vernon Tele- phone Co., The
Western Union Telegraph Co.
GAMBIER-Mount Vernon Telephone Co. MARTINSBURG-Knox Licking Telephone Co., The
MT. VERNON-Central Union Telephone Co.
Mount Vernon Telephone Co., The Western Union Telegraph Co.
THRESHER.
MT. VERNON-Blue, Harry
TINNERS.
MT. VERNON-Rowley, Charles H. Stump, Norman K. Umbaugh, J. J., & Son
UNDERTAKERS.
BLADENSBURG-McCament, L. BUCKEYE CITY-Edgar, W. M. Workman, U. C.
CENTERBURG- PURDY, D. H. See adv.
FREDERICKTOWN-Huddle & Denman GAMBIER-Martin, S. R.
MT. VERNON-McCormick, W. Edwin
MILLER BROTHERS, 4 N. Main St. See adv.
TELEPHONE CITIZEN'S 465 BLACK
ANTIQUES
FURNITURE
M. L. SULLIVAN UPHOLSTERER
Old Furniture Made New Prices Reasonable AUTO TOPS AND CURTAINS
10 N. MAIN ST. MT. VERNON, O.
Dr. C. B. PERKINS
VETERINARIAN
Both Phones CENTERBURG, OHIO
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UPHOLSTERER.
MT. VERNON-SULLIVAN, M. L., 10 N. Main St. See adv.
VARIETIES.
BRINKHAVEN - Moneysworth Variety Store
MT. VERNON-Stephan & Lorentz
VETERINARIANS.
CENTERBURG-PERKINS, C. B., S. Hart- ford Ave. See adv.
MT. VERNON-CRIDER, C. C., 211 S. Mulberry St. See adv.
Hinkle, T. Blaine
Limbaugh, Edward C.
Paxton, John S.
VULCANIZERS.
MT. VERNON-BAIR, H. S., 10 N. Main St. See adv.
BOWMAN, A., 32 Public Square. Se adv.
WALL PAPER.
MT. VERNON-KIRBY, FRANK E. Sed adv.
WASHING MACHINES.
MT. VERNON-COLLINS, GEORGE, W High St. See adv.
WELL DRILLERS.
BRANDON-RILEY, RAY. See adv. HOWARD-LEPLEY & SON. See adv. MT. VERNON-Beinhour, Al. Riley, Ray
WOOD WORKING.
CENTERBURG-HARRIS, E. C. See adv
WOOL DEALER. CENTERBURG-Jacobs, R. L.
Citizen's Phone No. 173-Blue Bell Phone No. 50-W Residence and Office, 211 So. Mulberry Street
DR. C. C. CRIDER Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist
All Kinds of Veterinary and Surgery, Dentistry, Castrating and Dehorning. Anything in the Veterinary Business Done. Treating Dogs and Cats a Specialty.
VERY BEST RESULTS GUARANTEED
CHARGES MOST REASONABLE MT. VERNON, OHIO
First-Class Water-Well Drilling and Pump Repairing
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Poultry Diseases and Enemies (From the Biggle Poultry Book)
Many of the ills that poultry flesh is heir to are directly traceable to bad breeding and treatment. In-and-in- breeding is practiced and the law of the survival of the fittest is disregarded un- til the stock becomes weak and a prey to disease.
Yards and runs occupied for any con- siderable time become covered with ex- creta and a breeding ground for all man- ner of disease germs.
Dampness from leaky roofs or from wet earth floors, and draughts from side cracks, or from overhead ventilation slay their thousands yearly.
A one-sided diet of grain, especially corn, moldy grain or meal, decayed meat or vegetables, filthy water, or the lack of gritty material are fruitful sources of sickness.
In the treatment of sick birds much depends on the nursing and care. It is useless to give medicine unless some honest attempt be made to remove the causes that produce the disturbance. Un- ess removed the cause will continue to operate and the treatment must be repeated.
It is an excellent plan to have a coop n some secluded place to be used ex- :lusively as a hospital. If cases cannot ›e promptly treated it is better to use the hatchet at once and bury deeply, or burn he carcasses. This is the proper plan n every case where birds become very 11 before they are discovered.
Sick birds should in no case be allowed o run with the flock and to eat and Irink with them.
In giving the following remedies we nake no pretence to a scientific handling of the subject.
FEVERS, from colds, fighting of cocks, tc. Symptoms : unusual heat of body, ed face, watery eyes and watery dis- harge from nostrils.
Give dessertspoonful citrate of mag- lesia and, as a drink, ten drops of nitre n half a pint of water.
APOPLEXY AND VERTIGO, from overfeed- 1g or fright. Symptoms : unsteady mo- ion of the head, running around, loss of ontrol of limbs. Give a purgative and leed from the large veins under wing. PARALYSIS, from highly seasoned food nd over stimulating diet. Symptoms : ability to use the limbs, birds lie help- :ss on their side. Treatment-The same s for apoplexy.
LEG WEAKNESS occurs in fast-growing young birds, mostly among cockerels. A fowl having this weakness will show it by squatting on the ground frequently and by a tottering walk. When not hereditary it usually arises from a diet that contains too much fat and too little flesh and bone-making material, such as bread, rice, corn and potatoes. To this should be added cut green bone, oats, shorts, bran and clover, green or dry. Give a tonic pill three times a day made of sulphate of iron, 1 grain; strychnine, 1 grain; phosphate of lime, 16 grains; sulphate of quinine, 1/2 grain. Make into thirty pills.
CANKER OF THE MOUTH AND HEAD .- The sores characteristic of this disease are covered with a yellow cheesy matter which, when it is removed, reveals the raw flesh. Canker will rapidly spread through a flock, as the exudation from the sores is a virulent poison, and well birds are contaminated through the soft feed and drinking water. Sick birds should be separated from the flock and all water and feed vessels disinfected by scalding or coating with lime wash. Ap- ply to sores with a small pippet syringe or dropper the peroxide of hydrogen. When the entire surface is more or less affected, use a sprayer. Where there is much of the cheesy matter formed, first remove it with a large quill before using the peroxide. A simple remedy is an application to the raw flesh of powdered alum, scorched until slightly brown.
SCALY LEG, caused by a microscopic in- sect burrowing beneath the natural scales of the shank. At first the shanks appear dry, and a fine scale like dandruff forms. Soon the natural scale disappears and gives place to a hard, white scurf. The disease passes from one fowl to another through the medium of nests and perches, and the mother-hen infecting her brood. To prevent its spread, coat perches with kerosene and burn old nest- ing material and never use sitting hens affected by the disease. To cure, mix 1/2 ounce flowers of sulphur, 14 ounce carbolic acid crystals and stir these into 1 pound of melted lard. Apply with an old tooth brush, rubbing in well. Make applications at intervals of a week.
WORMS in the intestines of fowls indi- cate disturbed digestion. Loss of appe- tite and lack of thrift are signs of their presence. Give santonin in 2-grain doses
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six hours apart. A few hours after the second dose give a dessertspoonful of castor oil. Or, put 15 drops of spirits of turpentine in a pint of water and moisten the feed with it.
BUMBLE-FOOT, caused by a bruise in fly- ing down from perches or in some simi- lar manner. A small corn appears on the bottom of the foot, which swells and ulcerates and fills with hard, cheesy pus. With a sharp knife make a cross cut and carefully remove all the pus. Wash the cavity with warm water, dip the foot in a solution of one-fourth ounce sulphate of copper to a quart of water and bind up with a rag and place the bird on a bed of dry straw. Before putting on the bandage anoint the wound with the oint- ment recommended for scaly leg or coat it with iodine.
GAPES, caused by the gape-worm, a parasite that attaches itself to the wind- pipe, filling it up and causing the bird to gasp for breath. The worm is about three-fourths of an inch long, smooth and red in color. It appears to be forked at one end, but in reality each parasite is two worms, a male and female, firmly joined together. This parasite breeds in the common earth worm. Chicks over three months old are seldom affected. If kept off of the ground for two months after hatching, or on perfectly dry soil, or on land where affected chicks have never run, chicks will seldom suffer from the gapes. Old runs and infested soil should have frequent dressings of lime.
› In severe cases the worms should be removed. To do this put a few drops of kerosene in a teaspoonful of sweet oil. Strip a soft wing feather of its web to within an inch of the tip, dip in the oil, insert feather in windpipe, twirl and withdraw. Very likely some of the para- sites and mucus will come with it. The rest will be loosened or killed, and event- ually thrown out. It may be necessary to repeat the operation.
To kill the worm in its lodgment, gum camphor in the drinking water or pellets of it as large as a pea forced down the throat is recommended. Turpentine in the soft feed, as advised in the treatment for worms in the intestines, is said to be effective. Pinching the windpipe with the thumb and finger will sometimes loosen the parasite.
When broods are quartered on soil known to be infested, air-slacked lime should be dusted on the floor of the coop, and every other night, for two or three weeks, a little of the same should
be dusted in the coop over the hen an em her brood. To apply, use a dusting belleepo lows and only a little each time. gill
CHOLERA is due to a specific germ, okid o virus, and must not be confounded wit me common diarrhea. In genuine choler terio ligestion is arrested, the crop remainde yar full, there is fever and great thirst. Th For bird drinks, but refuses food and appear ck to be in distress. There is a thickenin th a of the blood, which is made evident i boli the purple color of the comb. The diste as charges from the kidneys, called th at tn urates, which in health are white, becom dry yellowish, deep yellow, or, in the fina Wirts stages, a greenish-yellow. The diarrhoe st th grows more severe as the disease pro th a gresses. A fowl generally succumbs i vities two days. The virus of cholera is noch a diffusible in the air, but remains in the-can soil, which becomes infected from tham. discharges, and in the body and blood Chrough the victims. It may be carried from outh. place to place on the feet of other fow? lof c or animals. Soil may be disinfected bad fee saturating it with a weak solution of sun al se phuric acid in water. Remove at oncered all well birds to new and clean quarter e fol and wring the necks of all sick birds and ains: burn their carcasses and disinfect them, 20 quarters.
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For cases not too far gone to cur is; gi give sugar of lead, pulverized opiun ep the gum camphor, of each, 60 grains, powered so dered capsicum (or fluid extract of cards and sicum is better, 10 drops), grains, 1 PIP, s Dissolve the camphor in just enough a symp cohol that will do so without making it fluid, then rub up the other ingredient ded " the in the same bolus, mix with soft core mou meal dough, enough to make it into do b mass, then roll it and divide the who? strils. into one hundred and twenty pills. Dos Issages one to three pills a day for grown chickel cond or turkey, less to the smaller fry. Th DIPHT birds that are well enough to eat shoulte first have sufficient powdered charcoal ifon col their soft feed every other day to colo-es re it slightly, and for every twenty fow In the five drops of carbolic acid in the ho Theus a
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Mi gasp ROUP .- The first symptoms are thos of a cold in the head. Later on this fr watery discharge from the nostrils an eyes thickens and fills the nasal cavitiet drink and throat, the head swells and the eye fonful close up and bulge out. The odor fror Aker, an affected fowls is very offensive. It inded contagious by diffusion in the air an oray by contact with the exudations fror drogen
sick fowls. To disinfect houses an Uterine coops burn sulphur and carbolic acid i treat
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hem after turning the fowls out and :eep closed for an hour or two. Pour gill of turpentine and a gill of carbolic cid over a peck of lime and let it be- ome slaked, then scatter freely over the anterior of houses and coops and about he yards.
For the first stages spray the affected ock while on the roost or in the coop rith a mixture of two tablespoonfuls of arbolic acid and a piece of fine salt as ig as a walnut in a pint of water. Re- eat two or three times a week. Or, if dry powder is preferred, mix equal arts of sulphur, alum and magnesia and ust this in their nostrils, eyes and throat ith a small powder gun. The nasal avities should be kept open by injecting With a glass syringe or sewing machine il-can a drop or two of crude petro- um. A little should be introduced also irough the slit in the roof of the outh. Give sick birds a dessertspoon- il of castor oil two nights in succession, id feed soft food of bran and corn eal seasoned with red pepper and pow- ered charcoal. A physician advises e following treatment: hydrastin, 10 ·ains ; sulph. quinine, 10 grains; capsi- Im, 20 grains. Mixed in a mass with ilsam copaiba and made into twenty lls; give one pill morning and night; tep the bird warm and inject a satu- ted solution of chlorate potash in nos- ils and about 20 drops down the throat. PIP, so-called, is not a disease but only symptom. The drying and hardening the end of the tongue in what is lled "pip" is due to breathing through e mouth, which the bird is compelled do because of the stoppage of the strils. By freeing the natural air ssages the tongue will resume its nor- al condition.
DIPHTHERIA is a contagious disease. ie first symptoms are those of a com- on cold and catarrh. The head be- mes red and there are signs of fever, en the throat fills up with thick, white icus and white ulcers appear. The d looks anxious and stretches its neck d gasps. When it attacks young chicks is frequently mistaken for gapes. hen diphtheria prevails, impregnate : drinking water with camphor, a tea- onful of the spirits to a gallon of ter, and fumigate the house as recom- nded for roup.
›pray the throat with peroxide of frogen or with this formula: 1 ounce cerine, 5 drops nitric acid, 1 gill water. treat several birds at once with medi-
cated vapor, take a long box with the lid off, make a partition across and near to one end and cover the bottom with coal ashes. Mix a tablespoonful 'each of pine tar, turpentine and sulphur, to which add a few drops, or a few crys- tals, of carbolic acid and a pinch of gum camphor. Heat a brick very hot, put the fowls in the large part and the brick in the other, drop a spoonful of the mixture on the brick and cover lightly to keep the fumes in among the patients. Watch carefully, as one or two minutes may be all they can endure. Re- peat in six hours if required.
CROP-BOUND .- The crop becomes much distended and hard from obstruction of the passage from the crop to the giz- zard by something swallowed; generally, it is long, dried grass, a bit of rag or rope. Relief may sometimes be af- forded by giving a tablespoonful of sweet oil and then gently kneading the crop with the hand. Give no food, ex- cept a little milk, until the crop is emptied. Wet a tablespoonful or more of pulverized charcoal with the milk and force it down the throat. Should the crop not empty itself naturally pluck a few feathers from the upper right side of it and with a sharp knife make a cut about an inch long in the outer skin. Draw this skin a little to one side and cut open the crop. Remove its con- tents, being careful not to miss the ob- struction. Have a needle threaded with white silk ready, and take a stitch or two in the crop skin first, then sew up the outer skin separately. Put the pa- tient in a comfortable coop, and feed sparingly for a week on bran and meal in a moist state, and give but little water.
SOFT OR SWELLED-CROP arises from lack of grit, or from eating soggy and unwholesome food. The distended crop contains water and gas, the bird is fever- ish and drinks a great deal. By holding it up with its head down the crop will usually empty itself. When this is done give teaspoon doses of charcoal slightly moistened twice at intervals of six hours. Restrict the supply of water and feed chopped onions and soft feed in moder- ation.
EGG-BOUND, DISEASES OF THE OVIDUCT. Overfat hens are often troubled in this way. Forcing hens for egg production will sometimes break down the laying machinery. Give green food, oats, little corn, and no stimulating condiments. Let the diet be plain and cooling in its
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nature .- To relieve hens of eggs broken in the oviduct, anoint the forefinger with sweet oil and deftly insert and draw out the broken parts. When the hen is very fat and the egg is so large it cannot be expelled, the only way to save the hen is to break the egg and remove it as above directed.
WHITE-COMB OR SCURVY, caused by crowded and filthy quarters and lack of green food. The comb is covered with a white scurf. This condition some- times extends over the head and down the neck, causing the feathers to fall off.
Change the quarters and diet, give a dose of castor oil and follow this with a half a teaspoonful of sulphur in the soft food daily.
RHEUMATISM AND CRAMP caused by cold and dampness. Chicks reared on bottom-heat brooders are particularly subject to these troubles. Damp earth floors and cement floors in poultry houses produce it in older birds.
Give dry and comfortable quarters, feed little meat, plenty of green food, and soft feed seasoned with red pepper.
DIARRHEA of chicks with clogging of the vent. Remove the hardened excre-
tion and anoint the parts. Chamomilla useful in this complaint, a few drop in drinking water.
FROSTED COMB AND WATTLES .- As sod as discovered bathe with compound tin ture of benzoin.
FOR LICE on perches, walls and coop use kerosene or lime wash. To mal the lime-wash more effective, pour little crude carbolic acid on the lin tere before slaking or mix with plenty ( Jana salt.
For use in nests, pour crude carbol acid on lime and allow it to air-slak Put one or two handfuls of the ca bolized lime dust in the nest box.
Pyrethrum powder kills by contact ar is effective for dusting in nests, ar through the feathers of birds. Its jud cious use in the plumage and nests sitting hens will insure immunity fro lice for the hen and her young brood.
Chicks and poults are often killed large lice that congregate about tl head, throat, vent and wings. To d. D stroy them, soak fish berries in alcohcf. " take the birds from under the mothers night and slightly moisten the down the infested parts with the poison.
How to Preserve Eggs
Now that eggs are dearer as a rule than they have been for years, many people are inquiring about the methods of preserving them. The old way was to pack them in salt or lime. This served the purpose, but it gave the eggs a very strong taste.
The approved method now is the one which calls for the use of "water glass," or silicate of soda. This is a thick, syrupy liquid which can be had at most drug stores for about 10 cents a pound, and a pound is enough to treat five dozen eggs, so that the cost of preserving is about two cents a dozen.
There are several grades of water glass, and it is wise to get the best. To prepare the solution, stir one part of the silicate of soda into sixteen parts of water which has been boiled, cooled and carefully measured.
It is essential to have the eggs fresh, or the experiment will not be a great success. - Those over three days old should not be used, as the air has already had a chance to penetrate them. The very best way is to keep the solution made up ready and put the eggs into it just as soon as they are brought in from the nests, if you have your own chickens.
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