FERTILITY OF EGGS.

Patea Mail, 17 April 1882, Page 3

FERTILITY OF EGGS.

It is extraordinary what peculiar ideas some persons have (says the Mark Lane Express) about ascertaining the fertility of an egg. If you hold a new laid egg before the candle, shading it with the hand, you will find it ill undated by the flame ; then take ;an egg which has been sat upon say a week, and you will see that if fertile it will be dart and opaqueall except the top of the large end, which is the air space. This darkness denotesfertility, and it can be ascertained in a white egg much sooner than in a-coloured-one —in fact in a few days. An early examination is to be recommended at all times for two reasons—first, it enables you to use: the clear or infertile eggs, which are just as fit to eat as though they had remained in . your cupboard, and, second, you can, where two or three hens were set at the same lime, amalgamate their good eggs, supposing several to have been taken away for want of fertility, and then one ben can be given a fresh batch of eggs. In an essay recently published, a well known chemist recommends that rotten eggs should be manufactured into soap, for he states that when the moisture is extracted an oil can be taken from them almost equal in quantity to that contained in the new laid egg, in fact, about 10 per cent., which is adapted for soap making. ;