Show A Notional Hen At Los Alamos a tiny settlement in the Salt River valley near Phoenix there is a fine rosecomb white leghorn henone of the most industrious birds ever known that will make her daily contribution to the product of the chicken yard under no circumstances unless she can find a high I perch from which she can hear the egg I I drop She crawls up under the rafters of I her proprietors porch and deposits her r egg in a canvas bag with a hole in the bottom made especially for the purpose She mates a great deal of noise when her days work is completed Then her owner comes out unties a string at the bottom of the bag and lets its egg roll down into his hand Fifteen other hens of i I the same brood will lay only in one nest j They line up and wait their turn for that single nest though right beside it are a dozen more identical but unused nests oc |