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Half a century ago a short, canny, sandy-haired young farmer named James Edward Rice decided to put his hens to a test. He built a sort of coop which trapped each hen and kept her there until he let her out and scored an egg or a blank. At year's end his flock's batting average was only about 65 eggs a year per hen, about the U. S. average. Into the stewpot went hens who didn't make the laying grade. Up went the batting average of Farmer Rice's flock...
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...
Broadus Mitchell had long been a headache to President Bowman, who was campaigning for endowments to hold up the Hopkins' falling prestige. But after a violent quarrel with Dr. Mitchell, President Bowman once confided to students: "No mother hen is more solicitous of her chicks than I am of Broadus. Why, there are men downtown who would like to see his head on a platter...
...make fun of us because we try to step up production of eggs per hen or milk per cow? We have to, unless we want to make debts-and is it not more honorable for a poor man to work hard and to be saving, rather than borrow from his neighbors...
...Flanders (now Belgium) 600 years ago, painting was just another craft. Like brewers, dyers and weavers who were .hen bringing wealth to its free cities, painters were organized in solid guilds. They had rules of long apprenticeship, traditions of craft, stiff standards for 'masters." Flemings were lucky, because this medieval system lasted at least a century longer among them than anywhere else, led to the great technical discovery of oil painting and its first masters-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Roger van der Weyden...