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Show JUDGING THE VALUE OF EGGS Difference In Color Is Merely Indication Indi-cation of Strain of the Bird and Nothing Else. It Is a curious fallacy that the brown egg is better than the white. The difference In color is merely the indication of the strain of the bird and nothing else, says a leading authority. au-thority. It is a fact that, generally speaking, brown eggs are preferred over white ones, and dealers have learned to cater ca-ter to supply this demand at small cost. If their customers want brown eggs, they supply them as long as they here them in stock, and then color the white ones to fill out. It is a very easy matter staining a white egg a beautiful delicate brown by dipping It in weak coffee or an-alyne an-alyne dye. Eggs colored in this way sell just as readily and please the customers as well as though they had bought genuine brown eggs. There Is quite a difference, however, how-ever, in the lucrative value of very light colored yolks and those which have a rich reddish yellow color. The pale yolk indicates poor feeding and bad conditions, but the reddish, yellow yolk Indicates that the hens have been fed on the right kind of rations, and are therefore better food. Iron in the food gives color to the yolk of the egg, and anaemic persons whose diet embraces eggs should always al-ways select those of the rich reddish color, because they contain more iron than the pale ones. In Judging the value of the egg as food, therefore, do not take the color of the shell as an Index of its food value, hut upon its contents. |