Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1911 — HEN SELECTS FERTILE EGGS [ARTICLE]

HEN SELECTS FERTILE EGGS

Leghorn Chicken of Fine Pedigree and Remarkable Nature Casts Out “Unhatohable.”

Johnstown, N. Y.—Giles Freeman, a farm hand employed by Eddie Hale, owns a brown leghorn ben of fine pedigree and a remarkable nature. Before he bought the fowl from Hale, Freeman notloed whenever the hen was put on a new setting she would kick several eggs from the nest. Marking these eggs and placing them under other setting hens, Freeman found not one would hatcu. The remaining eggs invariably brought forth chickens. Tired of buying setting eggs for a 'hen to scatter over the floor, Hale sold the fowl to Freeman. He christened her Minerva. - Freeman now uses her only to sort worthless eggs from the settings of farmers who come for miles to havq the bird pass Judgment on their assorted eggs.