The Detroit times., 1913-03-24
HEN TONIC MEN
OUGHT 'TOMAKE
GOOD MONEY
Commissioner Helme Delves In
to Secrets of Chicken Medi-
cine in Michigan
EGG PRODUCERS" WORTH
ONE CENT PER POUND
Farmers Can Manufacture 100
Pounds at Total Expense
of About $3.50

LANSING. Mich, March 24.-under
the caption Something about stock
and egg tonics' the state dairy and
food department today issues the fol
lowing bulletin:
With the opening Of spring and
the coming of the hrst robin. the old
hen begins TO think about raising on
spring the coming season. About
this time the agricultural papers Of
the country blossom out with adver-
tisements Of various egg tonics to
make the old hen perform her duty
TO the community and her posterity.
'One OF the most extensively ad
vertised tonics Is DR.. Hess Poultry
Panacea. Mark Twain once said,
THAT the secret for a successful can
didacy to once was to confess all
your crimes before you started in
then there would be no exposures
during the campaign" DR.. Hess has
utilized this idea and he wants no ex-
posures OF his poultry panacea, 80 he
gives the constituents Of II In his ad-
vertisement. The names of the con-
stituents given In the ad are potas-
SUM nitrate, which il the chemical
name for salt petre, sodium chloride.
which Is the high tone name for COM
mon salt. carbonate Of lime. which ID
the respectable cognomen Of chalk or
ground oyster shells. iron sulphate,
which is the technical name for cop
peras, iron (red oxide), which Is the
name Of iron rust which Is
sold In the form OF common mineral
paints for about one cent per pound.
of soda, q cheap drug
much used by photographers and nux
q form Of strychnine used in
a. q tonic In very small
quantities.
THE advertisement says that q
mixture OF these elements fed to the
hen tones up the dormant egg or
gans and takes the hens out of the
loafer class" or course X this mixture
does this. 1t fllls long felt want. for
the hen IL contrary cuss,' who In
sists on laying eggB when they are
cheap and plenty and restricting the
supply when they are high-priced and
scarce. and any mixture that Will
make the hen do her duty II certainly
q public benefaction. An analysis by
this department shows that DR.. Hess
has correctly stated the constituents
In his hen tonic. The following are
the proportions, which DR.. Hess falls
to give In his ad.
Moisture is per cent; ground
cereal. $50 per cent; limestone, 200
per cent; salt 40 per cent. salt
petre, so per cent; copperas. 40 per
cent: hyposulphite of soda, 4.6 per
cent; iron oxide. so per cent: Quas-
STA, 80 per cent, and nux vomica, q
trace.
"The weight Of q package IL IN
pounds. The cost of the materials
therein ID about one cent and Dr.
Hess charges ~ cents for mixing
them up and advertising them. He
sells package at an even quarter.
The writer IL somewhat skeptical
that any mixture Of drugs will make
the old hen lay eggs when she doesn't
want to. but II any citizen Of Michigan
ID curious to try the same let him
NIX hfB OWN tonic. he following
formula will give him practically the
,ame thing that DR.. Hess claims will
reform the non-laying hen. He can
make 100 pounds OF II for $3.50.
0TOuuO CeIc6I Ic0O mduo Out OL
my grains or mixture, II pounds:
limestone In the form Of chalk or
ground oyster shells. 20 pounds: salt,
4 pounds; saltpetre. eight pounds;
.opperas. four pounds; hyposulphite
4 soda, ~ pounds; iron oxide, six
,ounds; Quassia, three pounds. The
materials should all be ground fine
nd mixed together.
"Dr. Hess also advertises a stock
onic for larger stock on the farm. |
| two-pound package Of this sells for
8 cents. A similar food can be made |
y the farmer for $3.50 for 100 pounds
% follows:
Ground grain, IS pounds; saltpetre,
~ pounds: Copperas. three pounds; !
,psom Salts, Ave pounds; Glauber |
'alts. 2h pounds; charcoal, SIX
ounds: Fenugreek, two pounds;
luassia. two pounds.
I'VE would suggest to the farmers
( Michigan that II they insist on
eeding stock. tonics and egg foods.
hat they make their own. They will
ave about nine-tenths of what they
would pay for them II they bought
hem at retail. and the will have Just
q good results
JAMES w. HELME.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
JUDGE DEAD