The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-05-21
BOOSTERS
md ENJOY YOUR
BREAKFAST EGG
Iuplsiate Chanticleer and Bad
Eggs Vanish, Says Com
missioner Helme
He SHOULD BE SOLD
TO SUMNER RESORTERS
Wholesale Slaughter of Barn.
yard Chieftains Would Make
Everybody Happy

RI LANSING. Mich. May 20.-With
the coming of warm weather, State
Dairy and Food Commissioner Helme
has turned his attention to bad eggs
and In q special bulletin sets forth
his ideas AS to their cause. Dealers
are warned that the sale OF question
able eggs comes within the provisions
OF the pure food and drugs act
The bulletin follows:
with the season Of hot weather,
comes also the season OF rotten eggs.
/. The food laws OF Michigan do not
permit the sale Of rotten eggs any
more than they permit the sale OF
rotten meat or vegetables. Persons
/ who sell rotten eggs are just as amen
4 able to the food laws Of the state as
persons who sell other decayed food.
FROM its construction, however. de-
cay In the egg IL not so easily dis
severed ~ decay in other food stuffs.
why does an egg rot? II Is be-
cause II 10 q fertile egg Eggs tina;
are not fertile do not rot. A hen
can cit three weeks on infertile eggs
ana every one at the end of that time
will appear like fresh eggs. Infer
tile eggs will dry up but they will
not rot.
what causes a fertile egg to rog
The fertile egg has In 1t the germ Of
HE In q dormant state. When the
Temperature of that egg Is raised
above IS degrees, incubation starts
and the germ proceeds 10 take on
Me- II the temperature OF that egg
afterwards falls below 50 degrees.
7 the germ 10 chilled and dies. It. be-
comes q dead chicken In embryo
& putrefatiye processes set IN, or, In
S&ommon terms. the eggs rot. One good
/ hot. day In summer Will start thou
oands of eggs to incubation. Unless
consumed within q short time these
oggn will rot. A setting hen IL hours
ION the eggs will do the same. This
N - why we have the rotten eggs tn
hot weather In the spring the days
4 are not warm enough to start IN
4 Gubation.
when we remember that only fer
4 tile eggs rot the remedy for rotten
soggs Il simple. Produce none but IN
fertile eggs during the hot months.
This can be easily accomplished by
H9omoving the rooster from the flock.
After the middle OF June the hatch
/ lng season 10 past. The old rooster Is
OF NO further utility In the mock.
Then is the time to swat the old
rooster II Is an economic waste to
\ feed him further He will bring
higher price then at any other time.
Make chicken pie OF him or sell him
I 10 the summer resorter. Anyway
swat him. The little chicks will pro
duce ROSTERS for the next Matching
season.
Moreover, the old hen. having no
males with which to firt and waste
her time on. will puf In all her time
and energy In egg production. She
will produce more eggs without Mr.
! 1ooster than with. and these infertile
eggs will not rot. To orr poultry
S keeping friends let us again say with
omphasis ~ soon as the Matching sea
J oon 10 over Swat the rooster" II
nay save you q fine and costs. II
will likewise have great moral ef
3 toct on the prevention of the profan,
4 1ty. which. occurs when rotten egg
blows up. II will be especially APP
Dreyiated by stock companies In
<&Ountry towns. Remember. II Is the
& cid rooster that produces all the rot
4 ten egg