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THE) RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
February 24, 
FEEDING FORMALDEHYDE INTO EGGS 
While the addition of formaldehyde 
and other supposed deleterious preserva¬ 
tives to eggs and other food products is 
forbidden by law in most localities, a 
Chicago scientist has found a method of 
incorporating the objectionable but effi¬ 
cient substance into eggs that may not 
conflict with present legislation, though 
it will doubtless be highly disapproved 
of by the hens, the innocent but help¬ 
less intermediaries, as well as the de¬ 
luded consumer, when he comes to real¬ 
ize the imposition. The experiments, as 
reported by Prof. Oscar Riddle, in 
“Science” Magazine, were conducted in 
this manner: 
“Normally fed laying hens were 
arranged in lots of five each. To one 
lot urotropin was fed; to another so¬ 
dium benzoate, and to another sodium 
salicylate, each at the rate of six grains, 
administered in gelatine capsules twice 
a day, the total dosage each 24 hours 
being 12 grains. All of the eggs laid 
during the week preceding the experi¬ 
ment and all laid the second week after 
the termination of the dosage were kept 
as control, those laid during the week 
immediately following the administra¬ 
tion of the drugs being discarded as 
likely to be affected by the dosing. 
“Both the control and dosed eggs 
were kept at moderate temperatures, 
ranging from 54 to 65 degrees until the 
last of the control eggs were laid, then 
all were exposed to the ordinary Sum¬ 
mer temperature, ranging from 68 to 90 
degrees for months in order to compare 
the keeping qualities of both classes of 
eggs.” 
Those dosed with sodium benzoate 
and salicylate did not show such mark¬ 
ed qualities as those affected by the 
urotropin, which-: also glories in the 
dainty chemical name of hexamethylen- 
tetramine! The eggs of the whole 
series were laid between June 30 and 
July 30. Tests made August 20 and 
September 17 showed that in both taste 
and smell the urotropin dosed eggs 
were more palatable than the control 
eggs. Similar results were noted Octo¬ 
ber 12 and November 10. On these lat¬ 
ter dates the control or unaffected eggs, 
as might be expected, were unpalatable, 
but the dosed eggs could be eaten with 
fair satisfaction on even the latest date. 
When tested for formaldehyde by the 
most reliable chemical tests the urotro¬ 
pin dosed eggs yield the gas in abun¬ 
dant quantities. The above trial appears 
conclusively to demonstrate that for¬ 
maldehyde can be fed into eggs by dos¬ 
ing the hens and preserve the eggs in 
palatable condition much longer than 
normal or undosed eggs. How far this 
process can be carried and how the 
hens, the pure food authorities and the 
consumer will regard it remains to be 
seen. All experience seems to show that 
formaldehyde and other chemical pre¬ 
servatives, no matter how incorporated, 
not only delay decomposition of proteid 
matter out of the stomach, but materi¬ 
ally interfere with digestion when it is 
eaten. v. 
WESTERN CREAMERY PROMOTERS IN 
MAINE AGAIN. 
Very much to my surprise, I found 
in going into one of the best farming 
towns in the State this week, evidences 
of the western scheme of building and 
equipping “co-operative” creameries. It 
brought back vividly, the fight we had 
with these same fellows years ago; a 
fight in which The R. N.-Y. joined val¬ 
iantly and in which its efforts were 
effective and appreciated. This time, it 
is not a Chicago firm, but the State of 
Ohio is made its home. An active and 
“tonguey” agent has been on the 
ground, and has filled the air full of 
tales of adventure, tales that are true, 
tales that are half-true, and others that 
might be called by a ruder name than is 
sometimes used to designate an untruth. 
But the main question at issue is per¬ 
haps the price for which the plant is to 
he sold. If I am correctly informed, 
this is $5,500. Creamery experts, and 
we have some of the best in Maine, say 
that even admitting everything about 
the plant is first-class, it should not 
cost over $2,800, or with a full equip¬ 
ment for handling sweet cream, $3,000. 
Here is where the “co-operation” comes 
in on the part of the promoters. 
Not satisfied with pushing their 
gdieme by “word of mouth,” they have 
published and are distributing, a neat 
pamphlet, portions of which, if it were 
not for the rascalit 3 r of the whole thing, 
would be amusing. Let us look at 
some of them: Of course, the word 
“co-operate” occurs everywhere, and 
frequently, reminding one that co¬ 
operation, like charity, has been made 
to cover a multitude of sins. But let 
us look at the next. * * * “You 
should first get a butter factory. That 
will help you to get a canning factory, 
as it rather necessitates seeding most 
of the ground and brings about truck 
raising and that in turn furnishes ex¬ 
tra feed for cows.” Isn’t that fine? 
All manner of farming carried on under 
one head, and truck farming too in a 
sparsely settled community far removed 
from any large consuming centers. 
“These two industries” (the creamery 
and the canning factory) “place your 
farmers in a position to get rich, and 
the result is nice homes in your town. 
As one by one they retire (the italics 
are mine) and the vast returns of these 
farms brings cash to the stores for pur¬ 
chases and improvements in the ap¬ 
pearance of the stores.” And so on 
ad infinitum, ad nauseum. But here 
is the nut of the proposition. Look it 
over carefully: “Days grew into 
months, months into years, and the 
‘mortgage-lifter’ still produces the milk 
to be sold to the centralizer, losing the 
profit of moisture,” etc. Here is 
where the profit comes in as I am told; 
the agent claims their process leaves 
from 25 to 28 per cent of water in the 
butter. Isn't this a nice scheme? 
Shades of Dr. Wiley and the high 
cost of living! Just another quotation 
and I am done. - “Many farms are 
being cropped to excess. Commercial 
fertilizer being used to stimulate the 
production, each year requiring more of 
the unnatural stimulant, to produce 
equal, or perhays, inferior results.” 
I am glad to say that most of the 
farmers are not disposed to bite very 
sharply. But they do want and need 
a creamery, and probably are in danger. 
One farmer wrote the Director of Ex¬ 
tensive Work of the Maine College of 
Agriculture for his opinion, and when 
the reply was shown the wily agent, he 
at once talked prosecution, as the Direc¬ 
tor’s action was in “restraint of trade.’ 
The writer knows what a lawsuit with 
these fellows means as he stood up and 
defended one, years ago, in a distant 
county, as long as the agents, through 
the efforts of shrewd counsel, could 
keep it in the courts, his only satis¬ 
faction for his time, anxiety and expense 
being the thought that he had helped 
the farmers of his State and the hope 
that he had helped to drive this class 
off money catchers forever from her 
limits. But here they are again, and if 
he can again caution the people, this 
time through the columns of The R 
N.-Y., the one paper feared above all 
others, by swindlers and get-rich-quick 
schemers, he will be still better satisfied. 
Maine. b. walker mc keen. ' 
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