Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-20

legation is repeated. when the eggs are
matching out. it will kill them before
they can lay another egg, and there
will be no more bugs in that room un-
It'll they are introduced from the out
side. And so with weevils in barn
or granary.
But as to poultry: You have often
noticed that boiled or fried egg will
have part Of the white Of the egg that
will not coagulate but remains like
milk. That is due to the hens not
having enough sulphur, and no matter
how well fed, if they do not get enough
sulphur they will lay that kind Of eggs
and not as many as they would if they
had sulphur.
You have noticed that hens laid eggs
whose yolks were pale yellow, when a
healthy hen should lay eggs with red
yolk. Why is this? The lack of sui
phur. And in this color of the egg,
| is sulphate of iron; and the proof of
this is, that if you give hens sulphate
of iron in their drinking water, this
light sickly yellow yolk will quickly
change to the healthy color. Hens Civ
en- the right amount of sulphur will
moult in half the time, and young
chicks will feather very much more
quickly, and be in better health and
grow faster. Alfalfa, clover, peas,
beans, and all plants that gather nj
srogen from the air need sulphur to
thrive; and when there is no sulphur
available, alfalfa and clover will not
grow. Hence it is that both alfalfa
and clover, and all nitrogen-gathering
plants are aided very materially by the
use Of sulphate Of lime, as both sui
phur and lime are needed by them.
But one of the uses of the aqueous So
luton of sulphurous acid gas is that
IF you fill crock or barrel with it, or
rather pour it on fruit or vegetables,
it will keep them for months, or even
a year, perfectly fresh.
Again, if fresh meat or fish is hung
up in the End chamber and fully,smok-
ed with the sulphurous acid gas, it can
be hung up in hot summer and the
meat or fish will not smell, but will
dry out and become as hard as a board
and can then be ground up for chick
ems or for hog feed; or, if boiled, for
human food, as the heat will drive off
all Of the gas remaining and leave nei-
Their smell nor taste of the sui hur.
There are other uses that can be made
of sulphur, and we should make it here
in the Colony and use it as a fungi
eide. deodorant, disinfectant and ger
micide. And, remember, that, while |
powerful germicide. killing all disease
germs and harmful bacteria, it is the |
very best encourager to beneficial BAG
terra, such as the bacteria of nitrifica-
ton.
In conclusion, want to again draw
attention to the fact that las phosphate
gives vitality to all seeds and in all |
ovum or eggs is to be found, just so
is sulphur found in all ovum or eggs.
Read in all the statements of Huxley |
and Haeckel their statements as to pro-
toplasm or plasm as Huxley calls it,
the physical basis of organic life,"
this plasm always contains sulphur.
The Last Words on Evolution the |
last lecture delivered by Haeckel, to
be found in our own library. on page
1873, he states the composition of the
plasm as Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen,
and Sulphur. Sulphur is necessary in
our mesinteric glands to form the pri-
mary cells that are thrown into our cir
culation and when absorbed by any or
gan are differentiated into the cell Pc
culiar to that organ. In fact. without
sulphur, we could not live. The amount
of sulphur in all cases is small, but
without it we should die. We have sui |
phur in our hair and in our liver. Hens
need it to grow feathers and lay eggs
even more than humans; and hens Civ
en- sulphur in their drinking water will
lay better eggs and more of them. In
fact, until you have studied the ques-
ton, you will have no idea of the util-
ity of sulphur. No wonder the eight
years of study of the subject by the
Oregon Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton and the results of sulphur upon
plants was a surprise and astonishment
to them; and. if the Colony will make
the sulphurous acid gas solution, we
can easily make demonstration, at
small expense. THAT will surprise you
at the very many valuable. uses you
can make of it.