The Commoner.
JUNE 24; 1904.
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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
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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
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