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Show WOMAN WORKS OUT PROBLEM Mrs. Sarah Erickson Declares the Hen , ' Lays an Egg at the Same Hour ( She Was Born. What time o' day Does a hen lay? That question has puzzled poultry fanciers tor unnumbered decades, but now, it seems, it has been satisfactorily satisfactor-ily solved by a woman. She is Mrs, Sarah Erickson of Falconer, N. Y. Having kept chickens for 37 years, she believes she qualifies as an expert in this line of effort. "I have worked out the problem," she declares. "By using marked leg-bands, leg-bands, trap nests and alarm clocks attached at-tached to the nests I have determined that a hen lays an egg at the same hour, minute and second that she was born, or, rather, hatched. For in-tsnace, in-tsnace, if the hen happened to be able to peck its way through its shell at 7:43 a. m., she will lay an egg at precisely pre-cisely 7:43 a. m. And she will do this without variation every time she is inclined in-clined to lay. I have kept close, systematic sys-tematic watch on my hens for five years, and I have never known the rule to fail." |