POULTRY NOTES.

Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 43

POULTRY NOTES.

By Terror.

— The Stock-keeper reports that Mr Herbert Reeves, o£ Emsworth, is exporting a large number of Dorking eggs to Tasmania in the cool ohamber of the lonio. The result of the experiment Avill be aAvaited with very great interest. If successful, the fact may stimulate othei colonial fanciers to purchase eggs from British and American exhibitors and breeders, and Avould solve the difficult question of introducing fresh blood. — A Dunedin fancier reports to me that he has in In 3 yard a nine-years-old hen (a Hamburg cross) Avhich laid 253 eggs on almost consecutive days during its first year, neA^er missing to lay more than a day at a time. It laid 30 eggs its second year, but never an egg since. It is an interesting speculation whether the eggs of the first year, during which tho hen evidently exhausted herself, Avould have produced layers or even healthy offspring? Is it not probable that each individual egg, being one part of a phenomenal effort, Avould in itself portray 1 eA-idence of outraged nature?