WINE-FED FOWLS.
M. .Torn krt, professor at the Agricultural College at Fontainebleau. claims that he has discovered a new and simple method of making hens lay. lie feeds them with wine in addition to their ordinary food. , , ';;-,,. The professor has not allowed his discovery to be made known lightly. . He ha« been experimenting with fowls of all kinds for several years, and finds the same result in every case. In each case he experimented for the four winter months with two sets of 12 fowls of the same breed, adding ■ bread soaked in wine to the food of one of the two sets of 12. In every case, after six separate trials, the wine-fed hens laid more eggs in the proportion of 20 eggs'-a month or thereabouts. Of course, the price of wine is rising, so that wine-grown eggs- may be expensive, but Professor Joubert is a man of science, and the commercial side of the discovery does not interest him at all.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14853, 2 December 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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