Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1901 — CHICKS HATCH IN EGG CASE [ARTICLE]

CHICKS HATCH IN EGG CASE

Hot Weather- Tarns the Who:* Crate Into * Prolific Incubator. Ninety-one young chickens wera found Monday afternoon In a case of country eggs opened In a Chicago commission house. The case contained thirty dozen eggs when It was received at the commission house. The eggs caine from a fanner at Gifford, 111., and wera on an order for freah country eggs. It is believed that the egg* were taken from setting hen* by the farmer a few Mays before they would have batched, and beat finished the work.