Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — HENS LAY AN EGG EACH DAY [ARTICLE]

HENS LAY AN EGG EACH DAY

Small Flock of Rhode Island Reda Make Remarkable RecordOwner Has No System.

Wallace, Ida.-Twelve eggs a day, seven days in the week, for twentyeight consecutive weeks is the record of twelve hens kept in the center of the Coeur d’Alene mining district Only in the last-few days, when one of ths number began to sit was .the record spoiled. The twelve hens are Rhode Island Reds and are the property of Peter Caw, who lives seven miles northwest of Wallace. Mr. Caw’s home is Well up in the mountains at an altitude of more than 3,500 feet Throughout nearly nine months the ground is snow covered. It is only now that the last of the snow is leaving. At more than one time during the winter the snow has been banked around the building, nearly ten feet deep.

Mr. Caw has no steam-heated houses for his chickens and he neither cares for them nor feeds by any book system. The home of the fowls is an old barn, their feed selected scraps from the table. With these they have prospered and with clock-like regularity have furnished a neat income. Eggs in Wallace during the months past have ranged from 25 to 50 cents. Figured at the low price, the twelve hens made a grosi earning in the twentyeight weeks of |49.