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zzammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm MRS. HOUSEWIFE: YOU CAN HELP UNCLE SAM BY PRESERVING EGGS BY BIDDY BYE Woman's most important work in wartime is doing the thing which is nearest at hand. Conserving the nation's food supply is work which is always at hand. It can be practiced three times a day, and at irregular intervals in the week, in the way of storing or packing food for future use. April, May and June make the great egg producing season of the year. This is the time for all those who keep hens to preserve the sur plus stock of eggs for next fall and winter. And it is often Wise for housewives who buy eggs to invest in dozens of the strictly fresh kind at spring prices and store them against a coming H. C. of L. crisis. The quality of eggs laid in the spring is better than at any other time of the year. In other months eggs should be put down the day they are laid. For the farmer or person who wants to preserve a few eggs for his own use, the easiest and perhaps the best method which can be employed is the use of water glass, or sodium silicate. This water glass is a syrupy liquid which should be mixed one part water glass to nine parts water which has been previously boiled. The solution should be kept in a clean receptacle, such as a crock or stone jar. Kegs or barrels may be used, provided they are scalded thor oughly and are absolutely free from odors. After the jar has been par tially filled with the water glass so lution the eggs can be put in frQm day to day and should remain at least two inches below the surface of the solution. Eggs put down in this manner and stored in a cool, dark place will come out during the following winter as a very good article of food. One gallon of water glass, will make solution to cover nearly 50 dozen eggs. The commercial water glass is used for preserving eggs, as it is much cheaper than the chemi cally pure article. Eggs also can be preserved in limeO water, salt, patent egg preservatives, "" o'r they can be greased and stored in sawdust or bran. But qggs packed in salt are liable to lose as much as 33 per cent by evaporation, while those which are greased sometimes lose 25 per cent. Moreover, they may become tainted, while eggs pre served in water glass are not only satisfactory after having been packed away for months, but also when kept for three or four weeks after removal from solution. Most packed eggs will not beat up well for cake-making or frosting, while eggs taken from a water glass solution seem quite equal to the av erage fresh eggs to be had in the markets. ' Their shells, however, are apt to crack in boiling. It is said that this can be prevented by piercing the larger end of the egg -with a needle before putting it into the water. If it is desired to preserve eggs in limewater, the solution may be pre pared by placing 2 or 3 pounds of un slacked lime in 5 gallons of water and allowing the mixture to stand until the lime settles and the liquidd is clear. The eggs should be placed in a clean earthenware jar or other suitable vessel and covered with the clear limewater. Sometimes a pound of salt is used with the lime, but it is said that such a mixture imparts a slight taste of lime to the eggs. o o . O APPLEQUIST IS CAUGHT Benjamin Applequist, 2001 W. Har rison St., 18th ward character, sought since election day in connection with the murder of Wm. Basket, a follow er of Barney Grogan, was arrested yesterday at his home. He refused, to talk. AMMlMtiltfMMiMfetfc