Word: hens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...
...quote from your issue of Jan. 7, page 16: ''Two sows are a hen, three hens are a hare, two hares are a wolfhound, and two wolfhounds are a cow." This might be continued: "Two cows are a salmon," which would make the approximate value of an Irish florin 48c and not $2.91 as you state. Greetings...
Whence had these strange and noisy creatures come, creatures whose eyes were purblind, whose wings had never sufficed to raise them over the hen hutch fence? Some of them came from Guilford, Conn. These were Reptilians, low birds reported immune to disease who seemed to glide rather than walk, an almost extinct breed whose 40 remaining members are owned by Breeder Paul P. Ives. Others, George Lowry's ten white leghorns who last year laid 3,014 eggs, came from West Willington, Conn...
There were many peculiar and eccentric birds upon display. One, a featherless, wingless, soundless, egg-laying edible chicken was called the Kiwi. There were Buttercups from Sicily and Austrolops from Australia, and one three-legged hen. Newsmongers in their enormously disagreeable eagerness to make some funny sayings about the poultry show and in their total inability to do so hung in anxious frenzy over prisons in which specimens of canaries whistled their shrill chants. These canaries were a special feature of the 40th show. One, worth $4,000, had died on reaching the show because his water and food...
...Tearned apiarist in the state of Washington has discovered a scheme for the delusion of his pets equalled only by that of blindfolding the mule who pumps the water or of putting electric lights in the hen-house. He plans to put his bees, after they have fondly and hopefully gathered a store of honey during the summer in Washington, into a box and, keeping them literally in the dark as to his nefarious intentions, allow them to hibernate trustfully, secure in the knowledge of work well-done. Then he will ship them to Australia where, when they are aroused...