Eureka Reporter | 1903-11-20 | Page 7 | Eggs That Have a Value

EGGS THAT HAVE A VALUE those laid by lapa fetch high pr ce in england few people realize that there are other eggs besides those of bens hens which have enormous commercial value in england so called plovers eggs which are really those of lap wings are sent to the city markets irom from the rural districts by hundreds of thousands they are esteemed a great delicacy and fetch a very high price the use of them being for that reason confined almost exclusively to the aristocracy and other luxurious persons being only about the size ol 01 pigeons eggs a good many of them are required to make a dish men make a business of gathering them from rom the nests in marshes and wel wei field fields