Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-06-29
EGG INFECTION.


likely laid in a filthy nest and was in
fected there.
You are reading much about in
fertile eggs, but seldom see anything
about infected eggs, yet dc you know
the finest fertile egg may be so infect
ed by its environment as to almost be
come rot on the spot?
Listen: There's that dirty nest full
OF bacteria in which the egg lies all
day. There's that hot place in which
the egg was stored until ready to in.
cuDate. There's that incubator that
was not scrubbed or disinfected after
match. There's that damp, dark cellar
with it's smells or that badly ventilated
room with its rank, dead air where you
set the eggs and their embryos were.
weakened or killed
Yes; there are many ways by which
eggs are infected so they become unfit
Tor food and incubation, but this may
mostly be prevented by keeping them
in clean and cool environment.
FEATHERS AND EGGsHELLs.
It is claimed f,4S3 persons were
| killed in three months in Chicago by
bad air in the surface and elevated
cars Closed cars seem as great germ
breeders for humans as i'll ventilated
henhouses are for hens.
A stream of water running through
hen runs is a great convenience I'M
less the hens are kept on the hogpen
plan, when it becomes menace to all
stock on the place.
Mr.. e. II. Karslake, Honesdale. Pa.
has demonstrated the usefulness of
the incubator for saving puny pigs
that need extra heat at birth Fill up
your incubator with little hogs and
try it.
When the Franklin County Pa.)
Poultry association counted the re-
ceipts and expenditures of its last
show it's receipts were 1923 and ex
penses $S23.41. So near and yet not so
far!
If you wish to know whether those
cakes you buy are made of rots and
spots or not just heat them. When
cold the rots and spots have the nor
NAL egg smell, but when hot they
aren't sweet forgetmenot.
| A Pennsylvania incubator manufac-
turer claims that his machine hatches
1900 chicks for less than Fl cents a
hatch. Now, if that's lie it's a whop
per-
India Runner ducks originated in a
red hot climate and should especially
fit the Pacific slope and the southern
| states. In the last Australian laying
contest their average was over 200
eggs per year.
It is now law in New York that food
products may be kept in cold storage
only six months unless the state su
perintendent Of health extends the
time, and he has the power to make it
six months longer.
If you happen to be sold setting OF
rots. don't fare up and send rotten
letter to the editor. He Is not ''trus-
tee Of providence" nor does he keep
his fingers on all the keys of the uni
verse. Spurious advertisements occa-
sionally slip into papers. religious and
secular, for editors are not acquaint-
ed with all the rascals Of the rogues'
gallery any more than you are.
The fellow who is too stingy to buy
good eggs from fancier and buys his
i eggs for Matching at grocery re-
minds one Of the fellow who married
mulatto because she didn't need to
buy hat to save her from sunburn.
At the late New Orleans show the
/ first prize White Wyandotte hen. val
ued at $1,000. was swiped by hungry
negro. who was captured just as be
was about to cut of her cackler. Her
/ owner tainted for JOY when she was
restored to his fond embrace.
Winter eggs are not laid by scrubs
any more than by scrub brushes. You
are Matching this season to get pullets
to lay winter eggs that sell at 60
per dozen. but you'n not get them
from stock that looks like 8 cents.
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