FOUR-YOLKED EGGS.
A Pennsylvanian negro has established himself as a chicken fancier extraordinary. For three years he has conducted experiments in feeding fowls that are said to compare with Luther Burbank’s efforts on. behalf cf fruit. The negro’s feed form aim are a carefully cherished secret, and a/re designed to produce muliiple-yolb eggs. Last summer his hens began to lay double yoWsers fairly regularly, bat ‘ recently he found a tripje-yolked egg in the nest of’his favourite lieu. Tiie egg weighs 7\ ounces, aiul'is pure white in colour. He claims that by 1320 he will have prrrr<j pnrrii]nr)y.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 4
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97FOUR-YOLKED EGGS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 4
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