THE EGG TRAIN.
The Great Ke.-tnn Bailwn-v Company have initialed an egg and ponltrv dernon-.-tration train, to develop home production in the eastern counties of "England. In charge of a competent body of exports, this train goes from place In place sliowinw tho people how best to look after thMr l etis an*, ducks an-d take advantage of t.ba present abnormal prices. Mr W. C. Mav, chief traffic manager, said that on its first tour the tram visited 36 towns since the beginning of October, and the d.mnn.-lra-tions had been attended bv 45.796 Persons (including 12,000 children'). Mr Edward Brown, the company's lecturer, thinks tiie ideal should he throe hens for ev-arv acre of cultivated land. On this; basis tiie production in East Anglia- alone would bo £5.000.000 a yoa.i- greater than it is - today. Jt brie. alioady been brought about in three or lour lush counties.
When a lady patient living far from town had to telephone for her physician she apolog’Scd for asking him lo come such a distance. •• Don't speak of it,” said the doctor cheerfully: "I happen to have another paiicin in that, vicinity, and so can kill two birds with one =1 oi r."
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Evening Star, Issue 16351, 17 February 1917, Page 3
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199THE EGG TRAIN. Evening Star, Issue 16351, 17 February 1917, Page 3
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