PREFACE . HIS b k h a s been c m iled wit a t w fld objec t oo o p h o o t o n c ea e t h e u se o f e a s o o a nd t h u s i r s ggs f d , inc rea se t heir pro duc t io n . No o t her a r t ic le o f food is su it a ble a like fo r o ld a n d u n fo r r c a nd r fo r e c u e a nd a c et c for yo g, i h p oo , pi r s s i s , a t t hle es a nd i nv a lids . B elievi ng t ha t a gr ea t er u se o feggs a s food c a n b est b e bro ught a b ou t by a kno wledge o ft heir c omp o si t i on a nd t h e nc e o fc o o e t h e c o e h a s c a r e u pri ipl s k ry , mpil r , by f l c a fi c a t on t e t o n a t e t a n t o u t r ec l ssi i , ri d dimi ish r h r h m l iply i p es a nd yet present suc h v a ri a t ion s t h a t a ny h o u sekeep er m a y a da p t ea c h met ho d t o t h e m a t eria ls a lrea dy a t h a n d . Few employment s a r e b et t er s u it ed t o w o men wit h a c a t a e t e o f one o r c a t en t t a n sm ll pi l , i h r m y physi l s r g h , h t h e r a ising o feggsfor ma rket . Th e e a a t on o fe fo r o o e ec a in c a e pr p r i ggs f d , sp i lly k s a nd e e t a o a e une a t e u ne fo r wo en . d ss r s , is ls r m r iv b si ss m Sma ll fl oc ks o fp o ult ry a r e u sua lly m ore s u c c essf u l t ha n l a rge o nes . T wo c a n b ec a e o n a t o e a nd o e a ea t his rk rri d h m , pr v s gr ec ono my o ft h e ho useh old wa st e. ' O ut o f u a nd wo a nd ee a nd w a t it c a n b gs rms s ds , ’ h c a nd c a t c o t h e wa t e o fNa t u e a or a t o pi k s r h fr m s r s l b ry , — t h e h en p r o du c es t h e fa ir whi t e egg o ne o ft h e m o st e c ou o e t o t h e u a n a a t e one w c fi t h e d li i s m rs ls h m p l , hi h lls ea t o f - h r m a n w it h lo vi ng ki nd ness . In t h e words o fa writ er t wo hundred a nd fi ft y yea rs a go : e e e ea en t a t n o a c e t e er r o uc e B li v , d r fri d , h l h mis v p d d r o ur na c e o r a e c so a r e a t r ea ur e a s o u m a f m f l mbi , r s y y o t a n r o o u en o u o n now h o w t o c o ne b i f m y r h s , if y ly k mbi la b or a nd delight . PRE FA OE . Amo ng t h e b o oks ex a mined in t h e a r r a ngement o ft h is t t e wo r a r e enc c o ae a ener a a nd ec fi c c e li l k y l p di s , g l sp i , h m ist r a nd o t er o o e a t n t o o o a s we a s a a r e y h b ks r l i g f ds , ll l g nu er o fc o o o o . Th e o t e u o we er a e mb k b ks m s h lpf l , h v , h v ' een Th e C e t r o fCo o n . M . a b h mis y ki g , by W Willi ms , ' - F o o E wa r S t M . D . Th eFr a nc o A er ds , by d d mi h , , m ” ” c a n Coo er o o Th e Mo er n H o u e o er T . i k y B k , d s h ld , by ' ” J . Mur r e H o w t o Coo a n d Se e E G. H y , k rv ggs , by ill , 'p ublished in E n gla n d in All Ab out E ggs 'p ub lish ed in C c a o V c t o Pa er a nd o o o n c o o hi g by i r lm ', b ks k M r on er Mr s. L n c o n M Co r o n M Ba r oa a y by i l , iss s , iss l , i Ha r a n He en Ca e a nd ot e . l d , l mpb ll h rs E GGS ND NAME A S HAPE . HE egg is one of the few things in the world original and positive in u itself . Tho gh some specimens are u ro nd and some oblong, the usual shape cannot be described by words applicable t o other objects . ' ova - The egg is h that is , egg shaped , since that word is derived directly from the Latin name for the egg ovu m . No t n o ly does the egg name itself, but it gives ris e t o words descriptive of other objects . 01 mm may have been derived from the Latin a vis . m t , a bird Fro this roo come the words oval , ovary , ovate , ovolo , ovule , etc . The Greek word meaning egg was (bé u and o . from this comes o logy, etc The same word was sometimes used to describe a bald head . 8 NAME AND SH APE. Tennyson uses the simile , bald as an egg . From the A nglo - Saxon oey comes the word - C we use to day . haucer and other early writers e c . use the forms y, g, egge The verb to egg, meaning to incite , is now nearly obsolete . ’ Thou should st be pra ncing on thy steed To egg thy soldiers forward in thy wars . a n d The egg dart, egg and tongue , egg and a r e n anchor, ornaments for the ovolo moldi g in archit ecture . Egg- shell ch ina is so- called from its extreme - delic a cy . The egg plant is named from the a sh pe of its fruit . Nest eggs and bad eggs are phrases often used metaphorically . The size o fthe egg has l o ng been a standard o f a a n d a me sure , its specific gr vity a test for solutions . 9 NAME AND SH APE. - a a n d o The first watches were egg sh ped , , fr m their origin in that city, were called Nuremberg animated eggs . The new Cen t u r y gives more than ( dictionary fifty derivations and compounds of the word egg . ’ Natu re is very skillf ul ; we don t take h a lf a s many hints from her as we might . Do you observe these eggs all of one color those deli — cate blues th ese exq uisite drabs 'If yo u n a t ever wish to pai t room , take one of hese eggs for a model , and you will arrive at such tints as n o pa inter ever imagin ed out of h is own ” I n . head , k ow CH A S. RE ADE . The nine thou sand varieties of known birds furnish every shade of color in eggs . This is a device of Nature for th ei r protection .