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Show HEN'S WORK ALL LAID 0UT Average Biddy Should Lsy 8lx Hundred Hun-dred Eggs Before She Retiree Honorably or Otherwlee. "There Is water a-plenty in a fresh laRl egg, but no more air than there is Lln a hammer," said a dealer la eggs. "So long as you can keep air eat of the egg It will remain sweet and fresh, but no one' has ever succeeded suc-ceeded In keeping It out by fair means aero than six days. The oxygen is OMd to find its way through aa egg saeU's pores, and the only way to save thai egg then Is to eat It It sounds fanny, but the moment you give an e$s fresh air that moment you ruin' It health. "A good, healthy hen not speaking of any particular star breed, but just ben does not fulfil her destiny until' he has accomplished 600 eggs CO1 dosen. That's what nature has fitted! up the hen to do In the way of Just! uncoeched and unstimulated egg pro-i duction, and she gives tho hen eight years to do It In. "Tho hon divides the CO dozen stunt up among those eight years. Some years she may not turn out more than a couplo of dozen, but when the eight! years are up she will have managed' her annual output bo that tho total; has come out all right. Then the hen, has ended her careor as an egg pro-, ducer, and too often It sho is In. the, hands of a thrifty owner, begins an-1 other career, short and delusive this time as tho summer boarder spring! chicken." , |
