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The Commoner. JUNE 24; 1904. M 15 Brown Esgs nd White. ' It is a curious fallacy that the brown colored gg is necessarily su perior to the ordinary -white egg, a belief which hag led to the practice of artificially coloring the latter in imitation of the former. It is doubt ful whether the color of the Bhell bears any relationship to the nourishing quality of the egg. As those who rear poultry know, it is merely an indica tion of the strain of the laying blid. Btill, a preference is very commonly shown for the brown or coffee colored egg; the color is attractive, and, led by the eye, the choice is very general ly made in favor of what is regarded as the richer and superior article. TJhe shell of the white egg is stained in the simplest possible way; perhaps by immersion in a decoction of coffee berries or by means of an aniline dye. This resource may satisfy the eye, but, after all, there is probably not the slightest difference from the nu tritive point of view between the nat urally brown colored egg and the white one. There, is most probady, however, an important dietic difference between two eggs the yolk of one of which Is a very pale yellow color and that of the - other a rich, almost reddish color. It is- a notorious fact that the country produced egg may usually be placed under the latter description, while the egg produced by the hen who is under an unhealthy and limited environ ment shows an auaemic to the yolk of the egg Is ironr just as it is iron which gives color to the blood.- coior, gen erally a very pale yellow. The eggs A POOR SUBSTITUTE FOR GOOD CLOTHES., & M , . CLUB LIST. Anvntioof the following will he font wHIiTTTTC COMMONER, both one yenr, for the club price. Fcrlocllcnls mjiy be sent to (liferent luldrcpses If-dcslrcd. Your Irlcnds mnytvieh to loin with yon Jn MjndJnKor i qombinntiai). Ail biibgerip tlonB nre or one year, und If new.bepln witlitho current nnmber unless otherwise directed. Prea ent subscribers need not wait until their sub scriptions expire. Renewals received now will be entered lorn lull .yenr Irom cxplrntlon dnto. Fuliscrlptlons lor Literary Direct und Public Opinion must bo nkw. Renewals lor theso two not accepted. loretyu postnpecxtrn. AGRICULTURAL. Res. Trice A prlcnlturnl Epltomist. mo .50 Hrecder'sGnr.otte, wk ; 2.00 Campboll'sFotl Culture, mo 100 Farm nnd IJomd.semJ-mo 50 Farm, Field and Fireside, wk 1.00 Farm, Ftoek nnd Home, 8eml-mo.. . .50 Faimer'H Wile, mo 50 Home nnd Farm, semi-mo 50 Irrlpation Aijefmo l.oo Kansas Farmer, wk 1.00 Missouri Vnllev Farmer, mo 50 Oraniro Judd Farmer, wk 1.00 Poultry Success ,...,.......; 50 Poultry Topics, mo 25 Prnetienl "Fnrmer.wk. l.(K) Prniiie Fnrmer.wk 1.00 Itellable Poultry Journal, mo 50 .Western Bwlno Breeder mo '.. .50 Club Trice 81.20 2.25 1.85 J. 00 1.35 1.00 1.00 1.00 ' 1.S5 1.00 1.00 1.10 1.10 1.00 1.H5 3.01 J. 00 1.00 Club Price 1.3ft 1.00 8.00 ?.00 3. 86 l.f0 1.5 1.85 3.8B 3.35 Club Price 11.35 1.35 1.50 3.35 2.35 I'M 1.35 1.45 TJ 6.7 n ' OHXtya't Will tlie Democratic Party excJiange its good old honest garments for a larrel? ' NEWSPAPERS. , Rep. Frico Atlanta Constitution, wk $1.00 Cincinnati Enquirer, wk 1.00 Indianapolis Fentinel.wk 50 Kansas City Werld Dally 8.00 Kansas Glty World, da. exc. Fun. .. 1.50 Ncbrnskn Independent, wk 1.00 Rocky Mountain News-Times, wk.. 1.00 Seattle Times, wk 1.00 Thrice-a-Week N. Y. World......... 3.00 wathterund AnzeiRer.Fundny.... 1.50 orld-Herttld,twice-a-w'eek 3.00 MAGAZINES. Re?. Price Cosmopolitan, mo $1100 Good Housekeeping, mo 3.00 Pearson's Magazine, mo 3.00 Pllfyriin.mo t 3.00 Review ot Reviews, mo 2.50 Success, mo 3.00 Twentieth Century Home, mo 1.00 Roman's Home Companion, mo.., 1.00 MISCELLANEOUS. Re?. Club Price Price iV?J?IJ,g.e,,t (newJ wk J3- -00 Pabllc Opinion, (new) wk 4.00 4.00 The Public, wk 2.00 2.25 Windle'BGatlingGun.mo., 1.00 3.35 Note. Clubbing Combinations or premium pliers In which theThTice-.Week World, World- Herald, or Kansas City World, or Farm, Stock and Home annears. am. nnt nnon in roairipntn nf the respective cities in which thepupera named wolirit are published, I Wcelcly. of wild birds as for example the plover show a yolk ol a rich reddish color. The substance which contributes color and there seems to be little doubt that the iron compound in the yolk of the egg is of a similar nature to that of the blood. It is easily as similated, and eggs are regarded as a suitable food for the anaemic person as they present a concentrated and generally easily digested form of nu triment rich in iron. The iron com pound of the egg has, in fact, been termed a "haematogen becau&o it is probable that from it the blood of the chick is derived. The amount of iron in the yolk of an egg would appear to increase with the intensity of its color, and there can be little doubt that the maximum is reached in the richly colored yojk of the egg pro duced by a fowl existing in healthy surroundings, for then Its processes of nutrition would be working under very favorable conditions. As an ar ticle of diet, therefore, the egg should be judged, not by the color of its shell, but of the yolk, which should be of a rich reddish rather than a pale yellow color. The JLancet. Not An Ethical Matter. A story that comes irom a country region not far from New York con cerns a native who was seen stolidly plowing a field with a team of weary and dejected horses. As thoy ap proached, the observer of rural life re marked, sympathetically, that the horses "didn't seem to like the work " "Urn," commented . the farmer, briefly: "they don't have to like it; they .only have, to do It," Harper's The Prairie Parmer. 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