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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1928)
3 Spirit of National Egg Week Should Last Year Through; Help the Industry THE OREGON STATESMAN FARMING AND INDUSTRIAL MAGAZINE SECTION A HIGHLY NUTRITIOUS FOOD IS THE E66: WHY WE SHOULD EAT MORE E6GS FIRST PLACE AS BEDDING PLANT tll MODERN GARDEN CONCEDED TO PETUNIA Eggs Are a Tissue Building Food, Being Rich in Protein and Mineral Matter There is No Difference in the Composi tion of Eggs With White and Dark Shells (National egg week is not over. It lasts over today and tomorrow, Monday, the 7th. It Is good for the poultry industry to consider the value of eggs as a suitable human food. Toe following mat ter, prepared in connection with national egg week, makes up one of the best articles in that cam paign that the writer has teen;) For many years live stock feed ers bare given serious attention to the problem of correct feeding and balancing rations for their animals. Why should we not give equal or greater consideration to the important problem inciden tal to nourishing the human body? It s most appropriate Just now that the American housewife, and for that matter our entire public, should give thought to and become thoroughly acquainted with the newly discovered and di stinct properties possessed by eggs as human food. 'What's In an Egg? The shell comprises about 11 per cent of the weight of the egg, the yolk 32 per cent and the white the remaining 57 per cent. The white is 85 per cent water, about 12 per cent protein, and 2 per cent mineral matter. The yolk is about half water and contalrj considerable fat. It has about 15 per cent protein. In composition, eggs are like antanal foods, such as meat, cheese and milfc. ' They con tain practically no starch. Hence, it is desirable to combine them with cereals or vegetables in the diet. Contrary to popular belief. there Is no difference in the com position of eggs with white and dark shells. Egg yolk is rich in mineral matter and is an important source of iron in the diet. The fat in egg y-Pik contains substances which stimulate growth. There fore, egg yolk is especially yalu able tn the diet of children. Egg white is rich in sulphur, which is shown by the readiness with which silver is darkened in its presence. Why Kat More Eggs? Eggs cooked below the boiling point of water are more easily and quickly digested than are boiled eggs. Compared with other foods. eggs are easily and quickly di gested. Eggs are a tissue-building food, being rich in protein and mine V matter. They are among the first foods to be fed to little children, because they are so rich in iron and because the proteins, fats nd mineral substances are especially well suited to building body tis sues. Eggs are also especially valu able in the diet of atults who are suffering from tuberculosis, or able in the diet of adults who are convalescing from an infectious disease. In these days of intensive liv ing, hard work and strenuous ex ercise everyone is concerned with the problem of finding a food which is highly nutritious, pal atable, satisfying and economical. In eggs we have Just such a combination. TUN AS LISTED BY OUR UNCLE SAMUEL There Is a Revised Bulletin, Issued by the United States Department of Agriculture Which Gives Directions Con cerning the Growing, Harvesting and Treatment of the Plants Needed in the Crude Drug Trade, Which May be Grown and Supplied by the Farmers (The United States Depart ment of Agriculture recently re used its Farmers' Bulletin 66S, which wa issued several years ago, entitled "Drug Plants Under Cultivation.") "Interest in the possibility of deriving profit from the growing of drug-plants is increasing year ly." says this bulletin. It men tions the fact that annually large surra of money are expended for crude drugs imported from for eign countries, where they are produced under conditions of soil and climate resembling those of many localities In the United States; and increased attention la being directed to the home sup ply. "At the cloae of the year 191S (after the war) there existed a general and widespread shortage in botanical crude drugs, and prices In consequence had reach ed unusually high levels." says this bulletin. (The prices are till generally high.) Following Is a list of drug plants, made up in this bulletin "to give Information concerning their culture which may be help ful to persons who are consider ing the production of drug plants on a commercial scale." (Lack of space forbids anything but a bare mention of the plants. Follow ing Is the list: letris, the star-grass, or true unicorn root; aconite; althaea, or marshmallow; angelica"; anise; arnica; belladona, or deadly nightshade; blue flag; boneset; burdock, calamus, or sweet flag; calendula, or pot marigold; Ger man camomile: Roman or English camomile; camphor tree: canna bis, or Indian hemp; caraway; caecare sagrada- In cultivation the trees are prunned annually, and thus a crop of bark harvested each year, instead of killing the whole tree, as is done in the wild state, which Is making it neces sary to make plantings, which is now being done in Britiah Colum bia, and will no doubt be done in Oregon for there is nothing "Just as good." Castor beans, catnip; conium, or poison hemlock; cor iander; dandelion, digitalis, or foxglove; dill; echanacea: elecam paine; fennel; gentian: ginseng; godenseal; henbane; horehound; insect powder flowers; larkspur; lavender; licorice; lobelia; lov age; meliesa, balm or lemon balm; orris: parsley; pennyroyal; pep permint; pinkroot; pokeweed; safflower: American . saffron, or false saffron; saffron, or true saf fron; sage, seneca snakeroot; ser pentaria, or Virginia snakeroot; spearmint; stramonrum; James town weed, or JImson weed; tan sy; thyme: Valeria; vetiver, or CU8CU8 grass; wintergreen; Amer- t First place as a bedding plant in the modern garden will be con ceded by most gardeners to the petunia. It ha won supremacy by the quality of floriferousness. which means bearing flowers abundantly. Two and a half months after the seeds are sown, petunia plants should begin to flower and once started, nothing seems to discour age them until a killing frost arrives in the late autumn. But their popularity is not all due to this qual ity; for no plant has developed more magnificently under the attention of breeders. Not a year passes but new colors or more splendid flowers are of fered. And even the largest, showiest flowers are produced abundantly. A generation ago petunius would not hare suited as a bed- Single Petunia dng plant. They are sprawly, and difficult to train. In an era of precise pat terns, and soldierly rows of flowers all alike, the informal habits of this vigorous grower would have been frowned upon. But in modern gardens it has complete freedom to spread where it will, provid ing it supply the mass of color which it so abund antly does. In window boxes, its sprawling habit is a special merit, and so-called balcony types are bred, which drape festoons of brilliant blossoms over the box edge. In origin the petunia is an Argentine. Its an cestor is a small flowered, dull Fringed Petunia lavender blossom which so often makes its appearance in our gardens, from self sown seeds,, even that produced by the showiest types. For this flower has a memory, and never forgets its humble origin. The development of the petunia- from this be ginnings to its present brilliant array of small and large flowered, single and double flowers, some fringed, and all brilliantly colored, has not been easy. Many plant breeders'have worked upon it, and many have had a part in the improvements. It is a common experience In plant breeding, Balcony Petunia that as the forms become more refined, they lose the power to reproduce. This has been especially true of the large flowered petunias, and consequently seeds of such types are difficult to grow. In the case of double petunias, for many years they were consid ered to have lost their seed producing power. For giving them additional petals, nature seemed to have demanded in return, their reproductive pow ers. It was necessary to hand pollenite double flowers, with pollen from single varieties, in order to obtain seed which would bring any double flow ers; ana or course me percentage ui uuuoms was thus much reduced. Giant Petunia The search for a double flower which had perfected reproduction organs was finally successful, and there are now strains of doubles which produce seeds. In all plant breeding, amazing patience and painstaking are required, but they are often abundantly rewarded. BABY CHICKS AND HATCHING EGGS Fourteen Varieties from narent stock OFFICIALLY TESTED AND OFPICI ALLY APPKOVKD. Ojr price are in -cord wuh our high quaHtjr. Our free 34 page catalogue ulli why. CUSTOM HATCHING Last season we custom hatched loO.OuO baby chicks. We know how to et best results with our 47.0UO egg Smith Incubators. Let experts do yo1. orW. LEE'S HATCHERY Phone 133T2 Windham county dairyman, in-i-.wrtu ihe miiK now of his six cows from 84 pounds to 110 T i 1 1 1 T W I ' .1 1 1 -1 nthan tin 1- ! C . . I J fti'fiA i 1 ' " ' . i v i . - a W iJ 1H 11 tic .TU'l H U W " H ' . r .-i; ... i .-i j hi it'u:iiK one puunu oi grain i ! every three pounds of milk pro j duced. The extra grain cost him 34 cents a day, and the gain in i milk brought him 81 cents, a pro- iii oi . cents aany. i. NEW NEMATODE FOR CMS, TURKEYS I BELTSVILLE, Md., May ;5 (AFl Maryland producers of tur keys and. chickens are concerned over the appearance of a new nem atode that causes .a loss of appe tite in their stock, followed bv a weakened and emanciate-d condi tion that results in death. At the -federal agricultural ex periment station here the nema tode is described as very slender and threadlike. It works into the mucosa of the esophagus, includ ing the crop. In the early stages a blocking and enlargement of I the lymph follicles is apparent and the walls of the parasitized parts be come greatly thickened and non elastic. In later states a sloughing of the mucosa and the formation of a fibrinous psetidomembrane occur, lowering the efficiency of the digestive tract. The nematode has made its ap pearance during the last two au tumns, first in turkeys and more recently in chickens. lean wormwood, or Jerusalem oak, wormwood. Many "Wild" Ones, Too There are also many drug nlintj nnfr nnft0i Mil t i va t 1rn In. eluding roots, weeds, barks, and iiowers, i runs ana seeas. ine Hat la n fnrtnlHahla nnn. and near ly all of the "wild" plants are either found or may be propagat ed in Oregon. DAWES PAYMENTS HELP THE FREM PARIS, May 5. (AP) French farmers, who raised a storm of protest against the acceptance of German agricultural products as part of the Dawes payments from Germany, now take quite a differ ent view, it was brought out in the meeting of the National association; of farmers here. Importations have run into high figures during the last three years 15.705 horses. 45.599 cattle. 244,037 sheep, and somewhat more than 900,000 tons of beet su gar. M. Etienne de Felcourt, in making the report, affirmed that the French markets had been very slightly influenced and that French markets had been very slightly influenced and that French agriculture had experienc ed real advantages from these pay ments in kind from Germany. RATIONS MORLEY'S Boys' and Girls' Shop Infants and Children's Ready-to-Wear . 227 North High AND MILK flELD BURLINGTON, Vt., May 5. (AP). Advised that he was un derfeeding by about 20 per cent on his grain rations, George Allen, Stock Six Leading Varieties Prices Reasonable P. 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