Word: orpington
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...Among London's hard hit districts (Croydon, Woolwich, Greenwich, Orpington, Wandsworth, Lewisham, Beckenham, West Ham, Camberwell and Lambeth) Croydon got it worst. Only 211 of its citizens were killed but 75% of its houses were damaged or destroyed (Coventry's percentage in the 1940 blitz...
Expert Winton proudly pointed to an official mark of 360 eggs, set by a Corvallis, Ore. Leghorn in 1934-35. Questioned further, he consulted his records, discovered that the official world's champion was a Black Orpington which laid 363 eggs in New Zealand...
...years hence, if experiments by Dr. F. A. E. Crew, director of the biological research laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, reported at the Liverpool meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (TIME, Sept. 24) fulfill his expectations. Dr. Crew took a pure-bred buff Orpington hen which had already laid eggs, and by an artificial glandular process little understood, changed its sex. At least, the comb, wattles and spurs grew, the bird crowed instead of cackled, paid attention to other hens, and, when mated with a hen of his own breed, became the father...