| Show egg Sto stories rieb we do not doubt the egg story of our jensen correspondent but ra he cannot prove it having broken the egg we will have to count him down and out aco rree freestone stone comes next with the largest egg on our desk it is sup eup posed to be an ordinary hens bons egg as it was found in a nest full of other extra large hens eggs it measures 7 18 19 1 8 9 inches around one vi way ay and 8 14 1 4 lengthwise this certainly must be p good 5 ear for hen fruit as well as for all sorts of farm crops and now the question arises whether it is due to the abundance of water iov for irrigation too we still have hane the specimen that mrs glann brought in wherein herein one duck egg was inside of another both with perfect well formed hard speaking of freak eggs grandpa caldwell tells a trite ne story of an egg lie he saw down in san rete pete county a number of years ago we just listened neither disputing the story nor reminding him that fish stories were nere out of season ceason as we have an idea the old gentleman might put upa putty good fight even though lie he liis parsed his hia year anyhow he says saya that he saw the egg with his own eyes and it la is just as true as it is that the world stands so here goes once upon a time a long time ago when the family lived down in dixie wash caldwelle Cal dwells wife gathered the eggs one evening she noticed that one egg had two black hairs or horns through the shell from the inside and called the attention of the men folks to the peculiar egg one of the gentlemen present punctured the shell chell with the small blade of his hia knife and there inside the shell was a full grown black cricket the lady is credited with making the remark at the time that ought to cure wash of sucking eggs 11 |
