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Show WOMAN WORKS OUT PROBLEM Mrs. Sarah Erickson Declares the Hen Lays an Egg at the Same Hour She Was Born. What time o' day Does a hen lay? That question has puzzled poultry fanciers for unnumbered decades, but now, it seems, it has been satisfactorily satisfactor-ily solved by a woman. She is Mrs. Sarah Erickson of Falconer, N. Y. Having kept chickens for 37 years, - ' she believes she qualifies as an expert In this line of effort. "I have worked out the problem," she declares. "By using marked leg-bands, leg-bands, trap nests and alarm clocks attached at-tached to the nests I have determined that a hen lays an egg at the eama hour, minute and second that she was born, or, rather, hatched. For In-tsnace, In-tsnace, if the hen happened to be able to peck Its way through its shell at 7:43 a. m., she will lay an egg at precisely pre-cisely 7:43 a. m. And she will do this without variation every time she is in. clined to lay. I have kept close, systematic sys-tematic watch on my hens for fiv years, and I have never known tb.9 rule to fall." |