The ovarium of a hen is beliered to contain 600 ovules or eggs, and a hen cannot compass more than, that number of eggs in her lifetime—particularly if she is killed before she get through with her contract. It takes about nine years for a hen to hand over for domestic use the 600 eggs she starts business with, and she carries out her contract, as far as can be ascertained, as under. Hens are naturally reticent, and . except when they have laid an' egg they .",:. say little about their own concerns:~" First year after birth, 16 to 20; teeoud, 100 to 120; third, 120 to 135 ; fourth, 100 ' to 115; fifth, 60 to 80; sixth, 50 to 60; seventh, 35 to 40; eighth, 15. to 30; ninth, 1 to 10. After the fourth or fifth year it does not pay to keep a hen for laying, and as it woul&be inconvenient and expensive to use a circular saw for eartinf - her, she will hardly do for the table after that age.—Exchange,
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3487, 27 February 1880, Page 2
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