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Show wheF hens lay BIGGEST EGGS Eggs laid by normal hens during some egg-laying contests under the authoritative- contTol have disproved large eggs are produced respectively at the beginning and end of a, hen's laying period. 4 It is said that during a twenty f months' period the number of eggs laid by 1,280 hens was 199,137. The hens that laid small or large eggs or both have been properly recorded and "credited with the amount." In an extraordinary Instance one hen laid fourteen small eggs ot different dif-ferent periods. When removed from the pen she didhot have a single egg to her credit. Two small eggs out of a total of 108 indicates a resting period ofter the production of a small egg, whereas In evry other case the amaH egg was mmmm , r T- found in a practically continuous series ser-ies of normal cggB. It seemB obvious, therefore, that small eggs may be laid at any time, but that most small eggs are laid while hens are at the height of their production. The records showed that as a general gen-eral rule hens do not lay extremely small eggs at the beginning of their laying periods, but that when tho hen Is laying most heavily the small eggs are produced. Kenneth, returning from a visit with his grandmother, announced immediately im-mediately upon his arrival homo: "Grandmother let me have three pieces of pie." "She ought not to have done that," said mamma, "and you shouldn't have eaten It. It Isn't good for you. Mamma Mam-ma is older than you, and she understands under-stands things better." "Well, then, mamma, if that's so it is all right, because grandma is older than you, isn't she?" queried littlo "come-back" Kenneth. And on her own argument mamma was stumped. ll oo ' i Marie, supple and " slender, and 3j Aunt Clara, bulky and benign, had re- j ll turned from a shopping expedition, ht& during which each had been trying to JJmM buy a ready-made suit. "WJ At the house Marie was asked what jj' A success each had in her "efforts to be I'M fitted. |