The Cock That Laid an Egg
PUZZLED SCENTISTS. LONDON, December 7. The cock bird which is reported to lay “big brown eggs” apparently justified its fame almost at the last moment of the National Utility Poultry Show in the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent square, Westminster iS.W., where for three days it had been a centre of the greatest interest and expectation. At 3 o’clock one of the show authorities took a warm brown egg from the pen Opinion is about equally divided as to whether this egg was genuine. But there is no doubt that it was warm from the body and wa s too big to have been placed through the wires of the fast-closed pen.
Four scientists are eager to have the bird. Mr Pease, of Cambridge, wants it for Professor Punnett, the head of the Mendelian school at the university. Dr Crew, an Edinburgh scientist, and JDtr. Boitellier;, of 'the French Ministry of Agriculture would both like to have it
And Mr A. H. Brain, of Birmingham wants to Fake the bird away for » radio-graph to be made of its internal economy. Mr Chaplin, the owner, will probably send it to one or other of the science schools.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1922, Page 1
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