Show WOMAN WORKS OUT PROBLEM mrs mr sarah erickson declares the hen hen lays lay an egg at the same hour she was waa born what time 0 day does a lien hen lay that question has puzzled poultry fanciers for unnumbered decades but now it seems it has baa been rily solved by a woman she Is mrs sarah erickson of falconer N Y having kept chickens for 37 years she believes she qualifies fles as an expert in this line of effort 1 I have bave worked out the problem she he declares by using marked leg bands trap nests and alarm clocks attached to the nests ohavo I 1 hare determined that a hen ben lays an egg at the same hour minute and second that sua was born or rather hatched for in if Uthe the hen happened to be able to peck its way through its shell at a m she will lay an egg at precisely a m and she will do this without variation every time she Is inclined to lay I 1 have kept close systematic watch on my hens for five years and I 1 have never known the rule to fall |