WHERE THE HEN RULES
FIFTEEN'. MILLION FOWLS : p: ''■'■'' ) SYDNEY, Nov. 23. Many interesting months in tho "most fowl, coihmurtity" in the world —Fetaluma, ' U.S.A.—were spent by Mr.' N.j A. -Gray,. of<. Melbourne, who returned by, the; Sonoma to-day. He went to study, and he found, that'the whole town of 8000 people worshipped the fowl. Fifteen million white leghorns were attended; by the populace, and in the bapks were:, .depbiits.;. amounting to • 14,500,000,1 ,do.liai;st/(r'Wghly!,-:' £3,000, ooo>;■,; ,■;"::, „■,■.•;• 'tyj':;:'<> "_>■./■ Eggs were mo longer" 'judged by their shells, Mr. Gray found. Thero were.2o different grades, and it was quality that counted. Girls and youths tested each egg by holding it to the light. .■'■■'■ I At one hatchery;l2ojooo dozen eggs [ were examined in a day. ' .•. I On 80 days each year * 75,000 j chickens picked their way through the 'shell. . • u .,.;: u ■.,••' \' The chickeirs • were dOsjiatclifed to ail ; r pattsi of (ttfiej States, *soine ,!cven going : by'" pa reel s.' post'. ,''''" ■■ : \• . "' ' r,' ~
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 11
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