Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1875 — How to Have Good Eggs. [ARTICLE]

How to Have Good Eggs.

There is a vast difference in the flavor of eggs. Hens fed on clear, sound grain and kept on a clean grass run, give much finer flavored eggs than hens that have access to stable and manure heaps and eat all kinds of filthy food. Hens feeding on fish and onions flavor their eggs accordingly, the same as cows eating onions or cabbage, or drinking offensive water, impart a bad taste to the milk and butter. The richer the food the higher the color of the eggs. Wheat and corn give eggs the best color,while feeding on buckwheat makes them colorless, rendering them unfit for some confectionery purposes.— Moore's Aural New Yorker.