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Show DANGER IN FRESH EGGS. ratal -Jlporo Which Aru Found Upon the Shrills. Wlon, in the liruve, unsciwitilie ln.3's of tild, the tyrant got to think that tho ort of dinner to which. h wns uccus-tomftd uccus-tomftd miglfC U apt t disagree with him vor; Muriuiifiiy, he- took to dining upon eggs, and h& eookel tlie eggs 1 hlmtic-lf. Tliei rcjKist might be a frugal ono, but be could, at any rate, eonolo himself with tho rejection Umt it couldn't be toxic. That tyrant, if he TMid the.-cie.ntilit journals, won hi know better to-day, atwl, even if lus hens performed their olllcv in his presence, would be careful to wash iho new-lail new-lail egg before he. cxxked it. 3'or iow-ndays iow-ndays w have myeeliuni and the fatal spore. When, but yesterday, a hundred eggs were "set.," with experienced hens to .sit upon them, who net or neglected their duly for a moment, the result was a liaro score of chicks. On, each unfruitful un-fruitful 4v;g was prusiuitly remarked jiiht. tho kind of. smudge which has hitherto hith-erto beon held by connoisseurs to be tiho surest outwartl and visible sign of the nearness of nn egg's laying. Science, Sci-ence, however, decidwl that Ujosmudge meant fnyceliiini, that the spore had jenetratod the eggshell, and had slain the chick within. And science proved its assertion by ocular evidence. Further, Fur-ther, it sltowed that tlieru wa myeeliuni myeeli-uni in Uk straw of tdic,nests, that tihe straw had got. n IIH.lt damp, and thnt tho lien had failed to hatch tho vgf.: because Hhe had hatched thosporo. I'.ur the spore will hatch' just an well In the ordinary tinrxM-atuiv of a room, and. |
