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Show ecg-lay1ng contest aMoNC salt lake heno It is dull day in Salt Lake for the unassuming hen when one of her meek species does not break the world's record in the way of an egg. Sunday is no exception. A Rhode Island Red pullet, aged thirteen months, owned by E. P Snow, who is employed by a safe company, deposited an embryonic ellipticcal spheroid last week at the owner's home, 318 Sixth East street. The calcareous receptacle was the pride of every one of the 100 chickens that dwell there and the envy of neighboring neighbor-ing galliiiaceae. The protoplasmic essential to prop-ogation prop-ogation weighed 3 oz, 8 1-3 dwt., Troy. Its greatest circumference whs 7 15-1 inclies and smallest 6 5-16. ' Egg sta tisticians say the membrana putaminis was large enough to make a glove for a five-year-old child. - It is thought to contain a double yolk and, if hatch-' hatch-' ed, may produce twins. A few days ago a layer owned by James Rothwell was given an ovation for an ovate gift that weighed 3 oz. 5 dwt., with circumfererjcial dimensions of 7 by 6 inches. Which one of his numerous fowls accomplished the feat Rotnwell could not say. He found the egg where one of his own true hens must have laid it anonymously. Tuis was too unostentatious a bird to brag about her work. She behaved humbly, line one who sees her duty and does it witnout fuss or fury. Not so with the Snow chicken. She had imbibed the boost spirit and, though ordinarily of the usual gallinaceous, retiring disposition, disposi-tion, sne knew a Utah product to be i cackled about when she saw it. Therefore There-fore she announced it. egotistically and there was no difficulty tracing the source of that prize. As far as could be learned, this Rhode Island Red holds the world's championship for a big egg, but from i the way egg records have been smash-! smash-! ed here recently it is tand this is "egg i peessed" more in sorrow and shame '.than in exultation) "eggspected" that ; a larger one will be laid soon. There ! are other hens just as ambitious; "hense," hope is high. These two large ova are thougat to be only the j "ovature" to future performances on the part of Salt Lake hens. Herald j Republican. |