96 EGGS AS FOOD. 
Charles I., itis said: ‘* His supper consists of an 
egg and a draft of small beer. By this temper- 
ance he finds himself very healthful, and may 
yet live many years, being now seventy-three.” 
Ericsson the inventor, whose work, continued 
to old age, was of the kind usually exhaustive 
of vital force, practised rigid abstemiousness. 
Laboring, at least twelve hours out of the 
twenty-four, his breakfast for each day of the 
year was two poached eggs. He adhered to 
this till almost the end of his busy life. 
Other men laboring with body and_ brain 
have found eggs very sustaining food. Weston, 
the pedestrian, while walking one hundred 
miles in twenty-two hours, consumed from six- 
teen to twenty raw eggs. 
Estimates based on experiments claim that 
with pork at ten cents per pound, and eggs at 
twenty-four cents per dozen, one bushel of corn 
will produce three dollars worth of eggs, and 
only one third as much pork. Add to this fact 
the disagreeable work necessary in the care of 
the pig and his conversion into pork, the scale 
