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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...
...children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered as an example of what would be more suitable, a story about a child named Peter who "ate 'n ate 'n ate spinach and loved and loved to drink his milk every day until he was strong enough to lift his little horse Trott Trott high over his head...
...would take a hen, however earnest and diligent, 240,000 years to lay as many eggs as a female oyster will toss into the water on a single midsummer day. No less splendidly fecund is the male who will presently fertilize this brood. A few weeks elapse, and upon some clean, hard rock begins the life-struggle of 60,000,000 infant oysters...
...Hen's Eyes contain in the retina red, yellow and almost colorless green globules, which may be important in the undetermined mechanism of color vision, stated London's Herbert Eldon Roaf...
...Montpelier, Va., one Farmer Terrell put a hive of bees on a pile of hen's eggs interspersed with flannel strips. When the eggs hatched, Farmer Terrell whisked the bees away lest they sting his chicks...