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Eggs—To Keep Two Years Perfectly Good.
This is from Emily Audinwood, Stanstead Plains, P. Q,: -'I have tried several experiments, but find none to answer so well as the following: I have kept eggs for two years, and found them perfectly good when used. Two pounds of coarse salt boiled 10 minutes in 1 gal. of rain water; pour off into an earthen jar. When nearly cool, stir in 5 table-spoonfuls of quick lime; let it stand till next day; then put in the eggs and keep them tightly covered until wanted for use. "
Remarks. —I formerly understood "quick lime" to signify slacked lime, but it is more generally conceded to mean unslacked, which has been powdered so it can be measured, about three times the strength of slacked, as by slacking it increases nearly, if not quite, this much in bulk. To be certain of having good lime, I should always obtain it unslacked and slack it only when I was-ready to use it. The above, and the next item, I have quoted as reported in the Free Press, of London, Ont. It was sent to me by my oldest daughter, Mrs. Dr. Mills, who lives there, and knowing they must be valuable I give them.
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