Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-07-26 | Page 6 | Problems in Egg Culture

Problems in Egg Culture Scientific Experiments to Be Made to Demonstrate the Possibility of Improvement. The Cambridge School of Agriculture Agricul-ture is trying io make hens lay red eggs. There is always the best market mar-ket for eggs which are of the richest red brown in color, and the problem is to develop the right kind of hen. The Cambridge experimenters hope to produce a red egg-laying hen of prolific pro-lific habit, just as they have produced a strong rust-resisting wheat of high yield by working on the curious law of Mendel. Hens have so far proved admirable ad-mirable examples of the working of this law. In respect of single and double dou-ble combs and in respect of color they are perfectly obedient to the proper scientific principle. They "behave" "be-have" as they ought, to use the technical tech-nical verb. Why should not the eggs behave as well as the feathers and comb? There is also the subsidiary question of food. It may be possible to alter the gg color by food as well as by hereditary influences. It has been done In the case of canaries. If Cambridge achieves the poultry-man's poultry-man's ideal of a hen that lajs yearly 250 two-ounce red eggs, no one will then say that the universities are not practical or even commercial New York Sun.