“I notice in the Daily News [Chicago] of April 2 an Associated Press report from Salt Lake City, saying that Elmar Apeigren of that place has a hen that laid an egg 8 1-16 inches in circumfernce, the egg being on exhibition there. I have a hen, a rose comb Plymouth Rock, that lays an egg much larger than that, and has for three years. I have on hand one of her eggs at the present time measuring 8 1-4 inches in circumstances transverscely and 10 inches around lenthwise and weighing five and one-half ounces. I have noticed a great many reports of large eggs, but I fully believe that this hen is the champion large egg layer of the world today. She lays these eggs every other day or every third day and about thirty a season.
    “I succeeded in hatching one this spring and the chick was 1 week old yesterday, the size of a four weeks chick. In the three years I have only found two of these eggs that contained two yolks.
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