CHAPTER III 



What is a Fresh Egg? — An Egg Should be Sani- 

 tary as Well as Fresh 



The answer one generally gets to this query is, an 

 egg so many hours old, and, as the average grocer 

 prints the card, " just laid." " Fresh " and " new 

 laid," as applied to eggs, mean nothing. Hens im- 

 properly fed lay eggs not only often unpalatable, but 

 that are carriers of disease. The hen's productive 

 organs are so constructed that bacteria which she may 

 take into her crop with impure food are passed into 

 the egg. 



Manure Drainage to Drink 



An egg being eighty per cent, water, consider the 

 effect on eggs produced by the farmers' flocks, where 

 the water supply is mainly pools in the barn yard, 

 which receive the drainage from the manure piles, 

 and where the principal food supply is scratched out 

 of manure heaps, consisting of undigested grain that 

 has already passed through another animal. 



A hen must have a large proportion of animal food 

 to lay well, and to produce rich, nutritious eggs. 



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