“Egg Foods” Kill Layers
On the market, to-day, is found an ever increasing number of preparations advertised as “egg foods”; “foods” warranted to produce eggs without fail and in record breaking quantities. An analysis of almost any of these concoctions discloses the fact that Capsicum, or in other words red pepper, is the basis of the preparation, or at least it is the ingredient in the mixture which is counted upon to produce the advertised results, namely, the certain and great output of eggs. If fed in sufficient quantities to actually stimulate the egg organs of the hen it must in a short time kill her, but if it should not have this effect, it certainly does put her in such a condition that she is worthless as a layer. It must be constantly borne in mind that the production of eggs is not a question of stimulation, but is the putting of the hen into a perfect condition of health, keeping her in that condition, and supplying her with foods which are egg making substances, and which nourish her completely, and allow a surplus to be turned into eggs.
On The Corning Egg Farm, this plan has always been the line along which we have worked, supplying the hen with the natural ingredients from which, in a healthy state, she is able to produce the greatest number of large, sanitary eggs.