Show SCIENTIST TRAINS HIS HENS TO LAY EGGS EGOS WORTH V FIVE DOLLARS PER DOZEN I Austin Austn Goo Goodyear eal Brown n llO Is becoming becom becom- S ing InS to the thc poultry world as a great an Innovator as Luther Burbank is In the vegetable kingdom While Burbank has been developing new varieties of ot I potatoes plums and other plants Brown has hns evolved e an un entirely new kind of ur eggs egg He lie is feeding au and amid training his hens liens lo to Ja lay Jay sterile and me medicinal eggs eggs on his poultry farm alm at Lakewood N. N J J. One Ono coop of hens hons is hard at work turning timing out iron lon tonic eggs egr These are for or OJ millionaires who nee need great nerve C force orce to put through gigantic deals They are arc 5 a dozen ozon To another coop of pure white Leghorn Leghorn Leg Leg- horn hens Is assigned time the task tk of or pro pro- high highly eggs They arc are for tor society women woman who need something some some- something thing thinS to lo repair the waste tissues of the nervous system impaired by the time social w whirl whirl h Iii Still Sti another house and of or lions lons are arc devoted e to laying eggs that eggs that that I Is eg eggs s Impregnated with ars arsenic These are for people recovering recovering recover recover- reco et ing front from malaria who vho need a powerful powerful power power- ful tonic but whose systems are arc too sensitive e to take the thc rank poison polson of oC pure lure arsenic arsenIc These are the most curious and expensive ex ex- pensive 0 e eggs In the worl world Another equally interesting kind 0 of egg which Mr Mi h Drown Brown produces produce Is the sterile sterie egg gS He claims that thai many ol of the eg eggs s on the market are arc liable to lo be infected with wih bacill and germs erms of tuberculosis s diphtheria and typhoid Unclean he thinks hunks are aro apt to cause causo bacteria In eg eggs s. s as us It I is known that thai eggshells are porous am antI and microscopic germs can caim cn filter through thi them e in Tuberculosis germs germ he lie thinks thinks can get jet Into eggs elJ from Clum hens affected with wih this his disease Croup in fowls ho says Is s tho the same samo as diphtheria in human beings being an and may be transmitted to eggs I Typhoid germs erms he believes os bele can be I transmitted to eggs by hens liens feeding upon foul refuse For liens hens will wi I If fuse allowed use eat cat stuff that pigs would re mc- mc 1 Orlas Orla's Orders from MI Mr Brown BIown has recently i received an order from J. J Pierpont Morgan tostock to tostock I stock his up-country up farm fam with wih virgin pullets to lay Jay sterile an and medicinal eggs A similar order has lias come from fron CS W. W K IC Vanderbilt Jr for his farm Carm a at Great Nee Neck L. L I I. I Most of us have havo grown glown up In tho thu trustful belief that the time one kind o of oC food rood that Is absolutely pure and free from harmful germs and adulteration L Is n the egg egG To be told toll that eggs are apt to con con- tam lain dangerous bacteria even cven those o oi tuberculosis typhoid an and diphtheria will wi come conic as a a shock Yet Vet this 1 Is ii what Mr Brown claims and believing It Il he has striven to produce an eg egg that Is free from all al germ life Ce an and amid 1 Is Ii therefore sterile sterie Having accomplished this thit as a ho Imo be ho- leves Ieves ho lie set about the more moc difficult I II task of oC producing eggs f with wih medicInal nal I qualities I IlS Many will wi be gl skeptical about th thc the ability of or germs to get Inside of eggs nut lint Pro Professor reso l' l Cooper Curtice of th the thc Rhode Island Agricultural college a at ln I Kingston ton expresses tIme the the opinion that tha t bacteria do iio penetrate Into eS eggs H He believes hele es this Is what causes cues eggs to tc spoil pol He lie le also says sn's that some Homo eggs egg are arc un undoubtedly sterie sterile In no otho othor wa way can he account for Cr eggs remainIng remaining remain remain- ing lug comparatively fresh and after aCel having been set Het on by a hen fo tor three weeks This was one erie of the things thing that ol I Mr Ir Brown to thinking If H eggs a apure mit 80 pure and anti free from decomposing material ma ma- tonal could coul occasionally occur wh viv why T not produce them systematically regularly reg reg- ninny as a high grade rade commercial 1 prod product Now ordinarily such eggs as these thes are ure Just what the farmer does docs oes no not t twant want vant to produce His wife Is apt t ti to wish to lo set t a hen at nt almost any mw lim and she wants all al the e eggs gs to hatch out out She expects one or two to fall fail Cal t P to produce chickens but she doesn't t twant want them thorn all al to be fresh Cresh enough b fo foan Cor Coran r raim an aim agricultural college professor I Icat P to a cat ent after aCter tho the hen has haH set on 01 then them i three thrle weeks woks Of or course everyone who knows s an any anything thing about chickens is aware aware that ha t the lie the chief chIc reason for tor eggs not g is that the they have havo o ha not been fertilize ml by 1 the presence of or a rooster among g the liens hens 1 Mr Brown Drown long lone ago adopted Ui tho 0 plan of oC having only virgin pullets lay layf I eggs for Cor market Their e eggs are free tree I i from om rom the life UCe germ Such e eggs ho lie t I found Coun would keep keel lot for long periods 1 of oC time without t spoiling On the thc other hand take an or ordinary y farm faini egg In summer time Let a period of two or three warm da days s 's prevail when the thermometer is I continually above 80 degrees degi e Tho The chances are that some sono eggs only a week ol old will wi be found to have spoiled Tho The explanation of or this this- When the thermometer IO rose C the tho fertilized fertilised egg began to hatch and when the weather seather egr cooled coole oft off or the elbr embryo o chicken died In InsIde Inside In- In side the eggshell and began to deca decay This Is what convinced Mr Air Brown Drown that the only proper egg to send to market was i a sterile sterie egg one egg one that had not b on r fertilized I But nut this was only the first link In his reasoning Ho lie had kept abreast t of ot modern scientific research Another cau cause e o of decomposition In eg eggs s he ha had learned was from bacteria which penetrate penetrate pen pen- through the shell and membrane mem mem- brane of oC the time egg This could bo ho prevented pre pro vented vente In most niost cases b by keeping hens healthy healthy amid and and nests clean Another possibility of or Infection then to Mr Brown Brown and and that thai was or of f germs of tuberculosis and diphtheria therm theria and typhoid being introduced Into nto the lie eggs while the they were being Inside the hen lieu Hens hind Had Tul I K Poultry he lie had observed ell wet were Hable lla- lla lable la- la ble Ie to tuberculosis Every y year ho killed some somo fowls rowls that he lie suspected of oC laving having havinG that thai this this was disease the disease To o satisfy they himself were suffering from he lie would sometimes dissect the fowl rowl and examine Its lungs Is or 01 01 lights In Iii tuberculosis these organs were i wasted or om 01 congested Mr Ir Brown then began to talk about aboul lule the thC danger of oC tuberculosis In him fowls This raised a storm of oC discussion said il It I was ridiculous a clever cr advertising dodge on lt Mr 1 Drowns Browns part to advertise tise his eggs and hens hens Hut But t scientific investigators I found that thai tuberculosis among among fowls rowls does docs prevail to some extent Dr DI V. V loc A. A Moore has hus hn had specimens of oC losis fowls In iii his laboratory at Cornel Cot Coi- nell nel university during the ho last Cewa few fei days a Queerly enough most of or these came caine from the hb Pacific coast II It I is weH known that tuberculosis is a common disease among Canal canary birds and parrot parrots The fact Coet that hens liens are aro subject to It opened the time serious question queston as to lo whether they could convey the disease e through their eggs to human beings Professor Curtice ot Rhode Island Iland thinks the they can cn not not It I now becomes a matter mater for scientific re research to lo decide If it I eggs egg arc really realy apt to contain disease germs germs It I becomes a n serious matter maler For eggs boiled fried droppel drop drop- pod ped pel or shirred are arc cool cooked ed usually so SI slightly that there thee is hardly any chance of or all ni the bacteria being killed While hlo this discussion rages Mi Mi- Ir own Brown keeps on quietly in iii his novel no business of raising raisinS sterile and medIcinal medicinal me S C eggs At first suggestion the idea Ilea that hens liens can be bu made to la lay mc medicinal eggs seems absurd But Mr Brown Drown who lio is worl working along th these c Ine lines Is IH not an Idle Ide experimenter or om- dreamer He Is a very practical 1 who makes a year from flom selling eggs and chickens He FIe says fays that the thc Idea of oC raising medicinal eggs occurred to him b by bi hearing bearing a physician say that have a better hetter effect on tho the human system if IC taken takemi In some natural al organic compound as In iii food than If It given In La 10 doses out of a bottle botte or in the form of oC pills pis This is especially true Irue of or Iron hon which Is so Important a constituent of oC the bod body entering into tho the formation of ot the red corpuscles of or the blood Poverty Po er ty t- tor of or the blood bloo anaemia Is lack of oC Iron In the system When hen medicinal iron is given In liquid doses it is apt to affect the so o aa as to drive a n sensitive person almost frantic Even cn B then lien the digestive system falls to take up the thc Iron In the tho intestines nn and convert con con- vert crt it into blood If It J. J on 01 the time other hand hanl a n person peron cat eat cherries currants currant and other fruits lar largely ely with Iron the tle system read readily I a assimilates the Iho Iron and turns It I Into good red rpt blood Mr rr Brown Drown fell fel to wondering whether er or it i would not nol be possible to feed eed I Iron lLon to his hens liens and und let their powerful digestive organs assimilate the miner miner- ol nt ci and charge their eggs with H if it j He lit decided to give some seine of or his hens ija n a s systematic Iron hon diet dieU diet In thick their drink drink- I I r l Ing InS ug waler he put rusty Iron For fodder fod Cod der det del he gave them as aN much finely cut cui c lover clover as the they would eat cat as this plant I c contains a considerable amount of 1 Iron I ron Instead of or common gravel to pick pickup pickup up ml for Cor their theli gizzards 11 Mr Mi Brown gave gae h his is hens liens mica sri grit This Is New Hamp Hamp- Hampshire s shire hire ground up fine It I Is rIchIn rich richIn I In n magnesium Iron li In potassium lum and l lithium In addition the liens hens got s some ome hard mixed grain On this diet 11 Mr Brown Drown thought he c could observe the yo yolks les of the hens hens' ae eggs ggs growing re redder del an and a chemical a analysis showed a larger percentage o of f Iron Iron So the ron Iron tonic Ionic egg egE found fount i Us Is ts wa way on the market In limited quant quan quan- t t t es His Ills researches in chemistry had bad t aught him that ono one of or tho the chief chlof clements elements ele do- ments In li-i the normal maJ healthy hens hen's egg e gg Is lecithin This Is a. a a colorless ev v I fat It I Is u a tissue 18 Is- Is mi sue tle mic builder the time stuff that makes makol children chil d dren i-en i grow nn timid and Is wh why fre fresh h eggs ar arc s such MiCh uch a good gool diet for young oung people anc amic une i II Invalids Mr Brown found ever ho however that thai s ome some eggs are ale deficient In iii lecithin U particularly ly eggs egg laid lall b by poorly fer fec fe hens or 01 fowls Cowls not miot In iii robust h health He lie set et to work to produce an un egg ogg r rich lIch In phosphorus Hens liens he lie regards regard merely merel as chemical machines tf t turn urn food fool Into egg substance So hi hr f fed ed one omme of hens hen largely on lne finely cut animal bones and fish bones bonos Bones as everyone knows arc are mad up mostly of oC lime and phosphorus phosphorus T This Tr t this his bone diet liet he lie added meat scraps scrap Linseed eel and amI flaxseed are arc rich In iii jJ oils ois oisO s so O these seeds were fed fel liberally It ti the lie hens liens Celts 5 3 a Do DOLn Time The result was eggs e rich In phosphoric fat As s the lie cost of ci producing them was considerable Mi Mi- Brown charged i a u dozen for fOJ them Thc They were bought most mostly by uy N Nex York society women sojourning a f Lal Lakewood who hoped to repair tin tIl ravages of oC their social can pal mains Still another l Idea ea occurred lo to Mi- Mi 11 Brown which was the production o of arsenious eggs Arsenic Is ts ono ommo of oC the tu poisons used most universally in med hail ical compounds Yet it Is one of oC thi most dangerous It I Is a cumulative poison polson At first in minute doses It I acts as as- asa a a tonic The person may get sel habituated to It I and lake take more nm an ant antmore more without seemingly Jy harmful ham of- of feel All Al at al once the poison mu may turn on him him like an a adder der and J kill 1 hiir hiT or 01 hopelessly break ioWa down I dO his health To feed hens ar arsenic was a dangerous dan clan experiment but buc 1 Mr own Drown tried It in this wa way iray He lie put pul a n small quantity of oC ar arsenic oxIl Into their drinking pan pau Increasing the quantity from day to ta hay day For the first fIst tenda's ten days das the liens hens ens wonderfully They Thoy were bright active had act e hal ravenous ravenous ravenous raven raven- ous and anti laid more eggs than usual usual All Al at once the they began to lo ll die and in a n week the time whole twenty were dead The rho cumulative o poison ha had proven oven too stron strong for rO tl them m. m So 1 Mr Mi Brown Drown set aside asile another lot lotof lotof of or twenty pullets and gave them much smaller doses of arsenic In water waler This time the experiment appeared success ful CuI After several months the hens were wele in good gooc condition and a 1 chemical chemical chemi chemi- cal analysis showed that the time arsenic was transmitted to the eggs to a certain certain tam tain extent In endeavoring to produce pi a thoroughly thor thor- thol- thol sterile sterie medicinal egg Mr rr Brown has hns made a careful stud study of the physiology of oC hens hons A hens hen's body he says Ss Is s 's a very vel complex organism with wilh an almost endless endes variety of or parts and functions each euch of which Is more or 01 less essential essential essen essen- tal to the full u usefulness of or the whole The best condition of or bodily health is I that In which all al these arc are properly adjusted to lo each ach other In the tho case of oC oCth th the I Leghorn the complexity Is time the greater because the time e egg functions I have been on developed Ie and the fat fat- forming qualities restricted Size and anti quality of oC eg eggs s mean that time the functions of the hens hen's entire organism organism or or- are arc active the tho most Important part of oC this organism Is the J liver vo 1 The Time liver prepares the time bile bio out of which the tho principal dl digestive liquids which a assist In some sonic of ot the lie most necessary chemical changes chances that occur in the tho blood such as nN to lo transfer Into harmles harmless harmless harm harm- less les compounds the poisonous products products pro pro- ducts duels of or bacterial fermentation that occurs In |