. The oist . okery. 7Ar. Stuber says that the penguinsegg is a great success scrambled ontoast, or used up in a sauce for coldfish. He also found it a valuable atset to other dishes. Mrs. Edmund Gilbert writes fromMaidenhead to say that, as a SouthAfrican, the i)roper way to eat a pen-guins egg is to cut it in half (after itis boiled), mash it up with a fork on ahot plate, and add butter, salt and)epper. Zybysco, the well known wrestlingchampion, is the latest convert to thepenguins egg. His manager writesto say that Zybysco has just eaten sixof them with great relish. It is stated that since
. The oist . okery. 7Ar. Stuber says that the penguinsegg is a great success scrambled ontoast, or used up in a sauce for coldfish. He also found it a valuable atset to other dishes. Mrs. Edmund Gilbert writes fromMaidenhead to say that, as a SouthAfrican, the i)roper way to eat a pen-guins egg is to cut it in half (after itis boiled), mash it up with a fork on ahot plate, and add butter, salt and)epper. Zybysco, the well known wrestlingchampion, is the latest convert to thepenguins egg. His manager writesto say that Zybysco has just eaten sixof them with great relish. It is stated that since the above ar-ticles apiieared there has been a fall-ing off n the demand for penguinseggs in i^ondon owing to some unex-plicable reason, and that few are nowshipped to that market. These eggs are considered a greatdelicacy by some, and it is thoughtthat if they were better known in oth-er ])arts of the world, their popularitywould increase. They are retailedhere at 42 cents per dozen, and are THE OOLOGIST 239. Just a few more, same Islands from two to three times the size ofthe ordinary hens egg. The contractors state that more could be collected perannum if a marl<et could be found forthem. The export price charged bythe contractors is $ to $ perhundred, and they are willing to shij)a small sample lot to any producemerchant in the United States, whowill ]iay the transportation charges inorder to test them in the Americanmarket. The season for collectingthe eggs is from .January to .Tune. During the year 1909, seal sl^ins tothe number of 3,362 were taken fromthe islands, and the average price re-ceived in London, England, was $ Very few licenses are now is-sued to private persons by the Gov-ernment—last year only four—and thesealing industry was carried on bythe Deiiartment of Agriculture. Alicense of $ for a boat of 20 tons or under and $ for boats over20 tons, is charged private seal fisher-men per annum, and in addition aroyalt
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