Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — HEN’S DAINTY BILL OF FARE [ARTICLE]

HEN’S DAINTY BILL OF FARE

Eastern. Farmer Feeds Prize Biddy Steak and Onions, Clams, Baked Apples and Tea. Winsted, Conn. —“What do you feed the hen that lays four eggs a day?” N. J. Welton of Oxford" was asked. He jeplied without a moment’s hesitation: “Boston brown bread with round steak and onions for breakfast; corn bread and long clams on toast for dinner; bread and butter, baked apple, cold roast beef for supper; crackers and weak tea with malted milk for midnight lunch. “I found the hen on the nest very early one morning,” said Welton. “I began feeding her differently and soon found her on the nest at dark, and to treat her nicely I placed a good light that shone on her nest and also an her perch. “About 11 p. m. I went to see how she was getting along, wlgut she hopped from her nest and left an egg. After walking around a little she took her perch for the rest of the night At ten o’clock next morning she laid another egg. “Now, both of these were laid within IS hours and were both double yolk, equivalent to four eggs within the 13 hours.”