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Egg Preservative

1 pint salt. 2 pints fresh lime. 3 gallons cold water.

Mix well, giving it 2 days to dissolve, stirring often. Pour off the liquid after the lime settles. Put in the eggs without cracking shell, and keep covered with brine. If brine falls short, make more in same way and add to the eggs. Do not put the eggs in a wooden vessel. Get a stone of lime, slack with boiling water, then measure the lime for eggs. This will cover 14 dozen eggs. I have used this formula for years and my eggs are as good the next spring as when I put them away.

I always put up my eggs for the winter in May when they are cheapest. -Mrs. A. L. Hornby, Gilvert Plains, Man.