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To Preserve Eggs

Vegetable oils, more especially linseed, simply rubbed water return to the boil while the cans are in on to the egg, hinders any alteration for a it; and yet it must become hot enough to safficiently long period, and presents a very expel the air from the cans. simple and efficacious method. We believe The surest way to attain the desired object that two coatings of collodion should preserve is to keep the bulb of a thermometer in the eggs better than any other method that has water. A heat of 200° to 208° Fahr. will yet been suggested. Or perhaps a single answer best, but it must never exceed the coating of paraffine might be equally effective. latter degree. To ascertain when all the air

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