CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



SEE PAGE 147 ON MUSTARD. 



By an error in printing, the paragraph giving the proportions of 

 mustard was omitted: 



If highly concentrated mustard is used, one teaspoonful foi; every 

 six hens. If mustard bran is used, three teaspoonfuls for every six 

 hens. 



Mustard Increases Egg Lajring 



For the last three years experiments have been car- 

 ried on with mustard. It had been accidently noticed 

 that table scraps, containing some of the leavings of 

 a salad where mustard had been used, and which had 

 been thrown out to a few barn-yard hens, were 

 greedily devoured. It was further observed that, 

 after a few days, the egg production increased. Fol- 

 lowing this interesting discovery, quite an exhaustive 

 test was carried on with eighteen hens, running over 

 a period of twelve months. The Corning Egg Farm 

 followed this experiment with considerable interest. 

 Six of the hens were fed an ordinary ration; six of 

 them were given Red Pepper, and the other half dozen 

 were fed mustard mixed in their food. At the end 

 of the test all the hens were killed and carefully ex- 

 amined. The organs of the six hens which were 

 fed an ordinary ration were found to be in fair shape, 

 and those fed red pepper had enlarged livers. The 

 six hens which were fed the mustard were found to 

 be in perfect organic condition, and they had been 

 in good healthy shape all through the entire twelve 

 months. They had produced a considerable per- 

 centage of eggs beyond either of the other two pens. 

 As a matter of fact the hens fed on the pepper laid 

 fewer eggs than those fed the ordinary ration. 



