Show I If Shannon Chicks Are Six Months Old Why Do Pullets Lay Eggs Chicks that grow into fat hens and andi I Ila lay la eggs e gs and chicks that persist in re remaining chicks beyond the th prope proper per period period period iod of are now an engross engrossing engrossIng engrossing ing subject of or discussion at police head headquarters headquarters quarters Desk Sergeant John A Lenzi ap appeared appeared appeared for tor duty yesterday boastfully stating that he had a white Plymouth Rock nock hen four months and two weeks old which had laid an egg egg on Satur day last This Interested Lieutenant Richard L Shannon who w hd has some Borne barred Plymouth Rock chicks which although hatched last February and now more than six months old still remain chicks despite all his effort to tomake tomake tomake make them grow into proud cocks and hens I Of OC course Lenzi Lenz and Shannon com compared compared pared notes I Lenzi explained that white Plymouth Rock chicks which were hatched In Ohio on April S 8 last were shipped to him and reached Salt Lake on April 11 They The were quartered quartered quartered In his yard at South Eighth East street and immediately devoted all their energies to growing When they grew large and fat tat some of ot the chickens were served at the feasts at the Lenzi home and others I were sold or given ghen away awa and now only I ten remain These are now big chick chickens chickens ens ems and one of the hens cackled over i I her first egg last Saturday The egg Is la now a Lenzi family treasure Lieutenant Shannon had no such ros roseate roseate ente story to tell His barred Ply Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth mouth Rock Rok chicks were hatched last I February and were tenderly cared for tor forIn torIn forin In his yard at 27 Johnston street I have done everything for them said Shannon but they will not n t grow They are still so small that it would take twelve of them to make a meal I have aJ about out thirty of them Sometimes I go out and spade up the ground so that they can dig worms I feed them the best chicken food that can be procured and every ever once In a awhile awhile awhile while I cut an of ot lucerne and throw It to them so that they can peck at the green stuff They like the grass rass and aad when I throw it to them there is a terrible commotion among the thirty thir chicks chicles that will not grow They The scratch up the worms when I spade the ground gobble up the food tood set before them and pick Dick at the cut for tor their benefit bene benefit benefit green gr ss s especial fit but that is a thing they the made UD un their minds to do Shannon wrinkled his brows perplex perplexedly perplexedly perplexedly edly Lenzi L smiled rolled as though he had the secret of oC making chickens grow snugly up his hia sleeve steeve Some dealer would like to have that first egg he said A chicken might be hatched from it from which an ear variety of or poultry might be started |