New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-04
WONDERFUL EGGS IN CONNECTICUT

The reading of recent copy of our highly
priced contemporary, The Sum-" has not only
made us acquainted with many heretofore uh-
suspected good qualities of Governor Ill., nut IL
has also introduced us to some most remarKaoe
eggs eggs which it is said are being produced daily
in the State of Connecticut. The Tribune has al
ready spoken Of the law in that state, recenoy
passed. forbiddng hens to trespass, unoer me
of 81 and costs We speculated at the time as 10
the probable effect this abridgment OF the men
personal liberty would have on her, arriving at the
conclusion that time alone could answer the ques-
ton. 1t would seem from The SUM- that the
effect has been most remarkable one FROM the
free. light-hearted creature which the Copnecu-
cut hen formerly was, taking her daily ratlons OF
gravel at home and her supply of food IN her
neighbors garden, she has become strange,
cratic creature doing the most surprising Things
in the most matter-of-fact way.
One of the most extraordinary Of Connecticut
hens is a large speckled fowl belonging to Mrs
Mary, Williams, Of Abingdon, which, since the
run law went into force. is in the haoit Oh
laying daily eggs that are eight and one-haf by
six and one-haf inches in dimensions. we 40
not know if by dimensions" is meant clrcum-
ference or diameter, but as newspaper striving
for the utmost fairness, The Tribune is willing 70
give the hen the benefit of the doubt and to sup
pose that diameter is meant. Az egg eight and one
half inches long is certainly of good SIZE. hen
would, we suspect be apt to grow dizzy seated for
three or four weeks on top OF such an egg as this
in a lauGabe effort to hatch out ten-pound
chicken Before an ordinary hen could cover
thirteen such eggs with any reasonable hope OF
keeping them warm and bringing forth brood
Of chicks, she would, we suppose, have 10 be run
through a rolling mill and spread over consider
able additional area. But Mrs. Williams's
speckled hen is not the champion Of Connecticut.
E. J. Starr, reputable citizen Of Norwich, re-
ports a daily harvest of eggs measuring seven by
eight and one-half inches. Mr.. Starr earnestly
requests that the public will remember that his
hens are Small breed, which probably accounts
for the fact that Mr.. Carlos Bradley, Of Filing
ton, comes in with hens eggs still larger
eight by ten inches. Mr.. Bradley's idea when he
first found one of these eggs looming up IN the
nest nearly foot long, was that an ostrich from
some travelling menagerie had escaped aud de-
posted its egg in his hen-house, but he has found
that he was wrong. AS Mr.. Bradleys hens pro-
duce the same number of these large eggs as they
formerly did Of the smaller ones be can afford to
sell them at tie usual price of fourteen cents a
dozen He is experimenting in an endeavor TO
find some way in which an egg may be divided
neatly and surely, as many small families DO not
wish 70 purchase whole egg at one time. Mr..
Bradley is described one of the most accommo-
dating men in Connecticut.
II all these accounts aA true-and we are not
altogether prepared 10 doubt the word Of Con-
necticut man-the result of the Nutmeg State hen
trespass law would seem so far to he excellent
Instead Of running about the neighborhood and
getting everybody into trouble the Connecticut
hen now stays at home and produces eggs which
have TO be gathered on a stretcher. Only one
thing appears 70 remain which demands serious
attention, and that is the hens health. Can she
keep up and remain cheerful under this ostrich
egg existence 1t were better that Connecticuts
hens should trespass all over Rhode Island and
half Of Massachusetts than that their health
should ne permanently ruined. The Connecticut
LEGISLATURE took a grave responsibility when it
passed the hen law, and it should be held strictly
accountable