Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1916 — SOLVES HIGH COST PROBLEM [ARTICLE]

SOLVES HIGH COST PROBLEM

Champion Hen Gets Into Bed With Kids and Lays Twenty-Five Eggs in Thirty Days. Chicago.—Tony Marino, who live* in the 1100 block on Milton avenue boasted to the neighbors that he had found a way to solve the problem of the high cost of eggs. , “I no buy eggs any more,” he laughed. “I gotta de champion hen. Margarita, she lay twenty-five eggs in one month.” The hen is kept in one of the four basement rooms where Tony and his family live. The basement is dark and the hen is tied to a bed post. “Dat hen she very busy,” said Tony. “She get right in bed with the kids and laya de egg at night.” At the present price of eggs Tony’s hen has earned one dollar during the month he has owned her.