Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — A Big Setting of Eggs. [ARTICLE]

A Big Setting of Eggs.

Perhaps the biggest setting of eggs on record wus made in Cdlifornia recently. Aa ingenious hop grower put his hopdrying kiln to a novoi use while waiting for the fall curing of his hop crop. He fired up the great furnace, carefully gauged the temperature with u thermometer, then spread out upon tho Screen 6,500 freshly laid eggs. It is reported that at one time there were exposed on the raised platform of the kiln 2,500 downy, infantile chicks of every conceivable shade of color. —[New Orleans Picayuno.