Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — MOVEMENT FOR PURE EGGS [ARTICLE]

MOVEMENT FOR PURE EGGS

Proposal Made That Peregrinations of Hens Be Investigated and Results Noted. There is a general sort of feeling that one fresh egg is as good as another, says the Kansas City Star. Who is it that is ready to ask whether her weekly supply of eggs is fertilized or not? Most of us are particular to tUte point of pettiness on the subject of pure bread, we will only buy our rolls, done up in waxed paper, we will not look at anything but grade A milk. In accordance with our ideas restaurants even do up loaf sugar in sealed billets, and so cn through the list without a lapse until we come to eggs. As a matter of fact, egg shells are not germ proof by any means. From the moment we realize how i>. happens that an egg can grow “stale” we must admit that contamination is possible. A whole group of disquieting revelations follows upon this admission, not the least of which is the discovery that the garden or farmyard hen is at present allowed to saunter whither she llsteth regardless of hygiene. Then we trustfully gather her product and feed it to our babies and invalids, forgetting- that unless hens are healthful, unless their food is pure and clean, they cannot lay pure eggs. When poultrymen realize this, and all scientific poultrymen do realize it, the chicken nuisance will be a thing of the past, and people who want to sell eggs Will no more want their fowls to run free than the modern dairyman allows his kine to nibble by the roadside.