SHORTAGE OF EGGS
Sir,—The shortage of eggs hasjfln brought on us by our cunning anojw* seeing, enemy, the Japanese. They'll* troduced the art of sexing chicks m this country. Under this system, Mt the hatch from the incubatoFis : stroyed when a day old; There is'a/pjg demand for table poultry, and IwtftTlo cockerels to meet it—they have aU beenkilled when a day old. The hehs;tn|t lay the golden eggs are now wag slaughtered in tens of thousands te gratify the appetite of people -with plenty of money. You cannot buy an egg, but you can buy the hen that Jays it. Chop off its head and have .It .for dinner; that is the way the Govern* ment is solving the egg shortagte.— Yours, etc., ' C.V.E May 4, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23942, 8 May 1943, Page 6
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