AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
November, 1911 
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A STRANGE EXPERIMENT 
HE Oregon Agricultural College has 
been experimenting in the matter of 
dyeing eggs and chicks. In a recent poul- 
try exhibition of the Oregon State Fair, 
bright pink chicks and eggs with red yolks 
and pink whites, both perfectly sound and 
wholesome, were one of the novelties shown 
as the result of feeding dyes of coaltar 
products to the birds one day, causing them 
the next to exhibit this gay difference. 
These experiments were undertaken to fur- 
nish a vivid illustration of the effect quality 
of food has upon eggs, and even upon the 
flesh and feathers of the fowls. 
SOIL SURVEYS 
URING the year soil surveys were 
carried on in fifty-nine different areas 
in twenty-six different States, and as a 
result 22,762 square miles were covered 
in detailed work and 179,108 square 
miles of reconnaissance surveys, mainly in 
the Great Plains region. A total area of 
359,564 square miles, or 230,120,960 acres, 
has been surveyed and mapped since active 
field work was begun in 1899. 
It is now clear that the pioneer methods 
of agriculture are inadequate for the in- 
creasing needs of our growing population. 
There is also abundant evidence that with a 
thorough knowledge of the soils and the 
intelligent application of modern intensive 
methods the yields per acre of our staple 
crops can be increased many times. 
The soil surveys are showing the vast 
opportunities for crop specialization in the 
various soils in different sections of the 
country. Reconnaissance surveys of the 
Great Plains region thus far made have fur- 
nished a large amount of valuable and accu- 
rate information, not only to prospective 
settlers, but also to those farmers who are 
already in the areas. 
ARTIFICIAL FUR 
NEW French process of making arti- 
ficial fur, which has been patented 
by its inventor, M. Marche, merits descrip- 
tion on account of its originality and 
ingenuity, if not because of its practical im- 
portance. Small pelts are sewn together, 
stretched, with the fur side up, on the flat 
bottom of a large pan, and covered with 
water, which is then frozen. The cake of 
ice is removed from the pan, and a slice, of 
the exact thickness of the skin, 1s sawed off 
the bottom of the cake. By melting this 
thin slice of ice the skins, destitute of hair, 
are recovered for use in the leather indus- 
try. The upper part of the cake of ice, con- 
taining the hairs, is placed with its base 
near a hot surface until a thin uniform layer 
of ice is melted and the lower ends of the 
hairs are exposed. The base of the cake is 
then varnished with a solution of India rub- 
ber, and after the varnish has become hard 
the ice is melted. In this way is produced a 
large, seamless artificial pelt, composed of 
the natural hair of a number of small pelts 
or pieces, attached to a sheet of India rub- 
ber. These artificial furs are cheap, as the 
natural skins are saved for other uses, and 
they are moth-proof, owing to the substitu- 
tion of India rubber for animal tissues. 
T has been estimated by an authority on 
motoring that in the neighborhood of four 
million pneumatic tires will be required to 
shoe the automobiles running in America 
during the year 1912. 
