Personal Experiences 41 



nothing I could do would make these hens lay. I concluded 

 I had made another failure such as everyone can expect until 

 he understands the business, which was little satisfaction 

 to me. 



I still had the bread-and-milk hen. She always ate in the 

 house. I would watch her eat to find out why she laid. One 

 day I thought I would fool her and gave her a little extra 

 meat — 5% in a mash in the morning and at 4 P. M. As a 

 result I had an awfully sick hen. She staid on the nest all 

 day and laid two eggs, the last egg being soft-shelled, with 

 a soft-shelled piece about two inches long attached to it. 

 I thought she would die, 'but she did not, although she did 

 not eat again for several days. In a couple of weeks she 

 was laying again. 



It is wonderful what can be accomplished with foods. By 

 a badly-balanced ration a hen will be knocked off her feet, 

 have leg weakness, become paralyzed in different parts of 

 her body, and develop all kinds of diseases. 



I believe that most diseases of hens and human beings 

 come from a badly-balanced food. A more important thing 

 than the feeding of poultry is the feeding of human beings. 

 Wonderful results can be obtained by the use of proper 

 foods. My main reason for writing this book is to obtain 

 money to go on with my experiments with hens, as I believe 

 the knowledge so gained can 'be turned to the use of human- 

 ity. How can drugs cure when your food is wrong? How 

 can good results be obtained by a wrong system of^feeding? 

 Is it not a fact that through a badly-balanced ration a hen 

 gradually becomes weaker and often develops tuberculosis? 

 I believe that the same thing holds true with human beings. 

 We become weak from wrong feeding and are easy prey for 

 deadly germs. We rush to doctors and seek their aid, but 

 the disease has got a start and it is hard to cure. If we 



