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Show A Great Egg I arm. The Farrollono Islands are about thirty miles from the mouth of San Francisco bay, off the coast of California, Cali-fornia, and are the homes of innumerable innumer-able sea fowls. When San Francisco began to blossom as a city her constant cry was for eggs. There being no poultry raisers 011 the coast made tho egg want hard to gratify. To supply this want tho project of stealing tha eggs of tho gulls and muhrs that nest by tho thousand on tho Farrollono Islands Is-lands was tried, and proving successful, success-ful, has ever since been ono of the unique west coast industries. Tho birds of the island nro too plentiful to count or even cstimato, as may bo in- f erred from the fact thnt tho egg gatherers often bring in 500 dozen eggs per day. This however, gives but a partial idea of their immense number, a great many of tho nests being inaccessible inac-cessible and many others devastated by the rivalry of tho birds themselves. The egg business of the islands is conducted by a company who pay the collectors live cents a dozen for collecting col-lecting them. The season is from May to August which, even at 40-) dozen a day, makes tho annual harvest about .jOO.000 eggs. |