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Nelson Evening Mail, 4 August 1916, Page 5

That dissolute roosters' arid" hens that soak np ether highballs am better 'parents than 'teetotal .-chiclrene%«& ; ti&j' dfiii;' | covory related l to the American Philosophical Society* by u.;a>moiul Pearl, biglß-\ gist at the Maine Agricultural Experi-ment-Station. MV Pearl toldof experiments upon- 70 chickens* all of a breed between blacks Hamburgs and Ply-' mouth Rocks. They were plated Jin" tanks and 'sprayed' with-alcohol and .ether fi>r an horn* each, daw The chickens didn't Eke either iaitoxicant * when mixed •in their water, but- -'became J lively their appreciation and their antics-- afteir sprayings. It was found that, the drutlken chickens -grew''uracil fatter thati a ber of arid' wM'cK ' we^ 1 ■denied opportunity to dissipate;. : . Tri ' : ' a year the alcoholic hens a veraged -.184 eggs'; apiece, white their white-ribbon vsistterk' 1 ' averaged -only 181. " The ram-figlitiiig" roosters became' lazy arid quatfreTs&mSey ; 'but otherwise Appeared in ' excellent di'tion., ''''- '■' ' V " ■.' ~' \ • V s '