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...Kuesters have a small flock of chickens which are part of Mrs. Kuester's job. The Dale Kuesters are raising several hundred chicks (an Australorp-Leghorn cross). Dale's wife, Ilene, a pretty, lively farm girl, who is as up-to-the-minute as if she had just stepped off Michigan Avenue, "has a hand with chickens," often has a box of underprivileged "peeps" warming over the register in her parlor...
Today an average hen produces only 100 eggs a year, but a good hen lays 200, and 300 is no longer a marvel. Champion Te Kawau Princess (Australorp), of New Zealand, who died in 1933 in Holland, Mich., set a world's record in 1930 by laying 361 eggs in 364 days...
Biggest creature in the show was a 19-month-old Meyersdale, Pa., turkey that weighed 62 pounds. Most curious was a Wyandotte hermaphrodite whose only noise was a low food call. There were Toulouse geese; a white leghorn rooster worth $5,000 (owner's valuation); an Australorp hen that laid 346 eggs last year; a flock of Japanese Silkies with down instead of feathers; a snouted, ring-eyed Buff-Laced Polish rooster, crested like an Indian chief in a medicine show...
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