AN AMERICAN HEN.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 7 April 1920, Page 4

AN AMERICAN HEN.

“ Sixteen eggs in a day front one hen’’ sounds pretty tall talk, but being an American one can understand, says ’•Answers’’: “.Front Id hens'’ No, from one hen! And 111 of the eggs were laid before a witness who has

sworn on oath, in the presence of a • judge, that these .U‘> eggs were laid by the hen without getting oil her nest once to take a breather! The hen belongs to an American, and is a "White ixoek. she is called the machine Gun Pullet, or the Magazine Hen, and sceptics who have visited her have ■ time away converted. she does riot, mv lii eggs every day; that is her |: iighost record; but she maintains a j m.,.l daily average, having produced • i.*>i eggs in a month and i 7 in one week. She is a very particular bird. ; :n<i lias a right to be. As soon as she rhnught about laying she marked a eerrain burn for the purpose, and would ; not begin her career until she had been admitted. She laid from lour to six | eggs per (lav from the outset, and linn- 1 <lrmls of people name to see her. She jj is Mill laying hard!” Birds that have j* jx'i'ii on-”--bound have I'oon known to jj lav a iiunil.'i.'r of eggs at one sitting, | •iii*.l have, of course, under the circuin- jj stances, to be excused; but a hen. even | an American one, so indecent as to lay l'i[ eggs in a month and 77 ill one week, certainly deserves to be called i names, and that of “Magazine Hen” about tits the case.