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Some Chicken. In Bermuda, an unnamed hen laid an egg 91¼ in. around the long way, 71½ in. around the center; cackled, lived...
Incubation. Releasing Harvey McKinney from a year's jail term for the theft of a hen and her eggs, the Court of Appeals in Frankfort, Ky. ruled that it was a misdemeanor but no felony, that the lower court "did . . . count chickens before they hatched...
...captain's short commands, dropped into the speaking tube on the bridge, fall through several decks into the ears of 600 men, each with his special assignment, most of them blind to what is happening outside. To Engine-room Artificer Hen-rose, the presence of Italian dreadnoughts was merely "interesting, just as was the fact that Henry VIII had six wives." Hen-rose's eyes were, as usual, fixed on a test tube, searching for "the slightest trace of the white precipitate of silver chloride which would indicate that there was salt in the boiler water." Chief Petty...
Eggman Creighton is only one professional among 218,000. Last year they produced the astronomical total of 48 billion eggs. This year they must top that score by as many more millions of eggs as they can possibly wheedle out of the hard-worked U.S. hen...
Never has the U.S. hen performed so valiantly-the Department of Agriculture announced last week that she is laying one-fourth of an egg more a month, and that she produced a billion more eggs last month than in March 1942. But it is not enough; she must not only lay but hatch more. She has already begun. 1943 hatchings are up 16% over last year...