Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — Wild Duck Eggs of Annam. [ARTICLE]

Wild Duck Eggs of Annam.

In certain provinces of Annam the plains Uterally swarm with geese and ducks. This richness has given to several enterprising colonists the idea of profiting industrially from the enormous quantities of eggs produced by these creatures and which the local consumption is Impossible to absorb. There are factories in several places which receive the eggs and extract from them the albumen, which finds so many uses in the industry and feeding of Europe. The yellows, submitted to an antiseptic process, are received apart and sent to France, where tliey are employed in the white leather trade. This industry has had a rapid extension. At the beginning in one factory at Nghe-an, one scarcely received 2,000 to 3,000 duck eggs a day. Now at least 80,000 are received on the days of the great sale, that is to say every five days, and 10,000 each intervening day, which makes a supply of 24.000 eggs a day. The price, which at first was but 1 franc per hundred, has been raised to 1 franc 25. That is yet but 15 centimes the dozen. Omelettes ought not to be dear in Annam !