Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-04-23
ABOUT ANIMALS

Turkeys eggs take ~ days to hatch.
An incubator in use in Australia has
n capacty of ll.iip ducks eggs o. a.
0Sn hens eggs.
Wax is a natural secretion of the bees,
and is only produced by them during
heavy honey flows
AZ a rule gray horses attain greater
age than those of any other color, but
with increasing years they turn white
Golden eagles are increasing in the
Scottish highlands through the efforts
Of the lard owners for their projections
What is known as an angel shark, an
ugly fish with an cight-iuch mouth con-
tanning three rows of teeth. has been
caught with a hard line at Fclixstowe
England.
The largest mule on earth three
year-old jinnet, belongs to Michael Muir
ray Of Hereford. Mo. She is Is hands or
SIX feet high at the shoulders and Weighs
17oJ pounds.
A peculiar constituencies to lightning
has been noted IN fishes. IN several re-
cent cases trout and other fishes in tanks
and pools have been kill,d by lightning
flashes which. however. struck some dis
tIncc away.
1t Is said that the profitable hen cats
1G times her weight in n year Her eggs
arc six times her own weight, and worth
| six times the cost of her food. Feed
| plenty of wheat. oats grit. clover and
| bone and less corn.
The German Ornitholorcal society has
| been conducting experiments with pig
cons and finds that when liberated M a
| height of nine thousand feet down 10
as little as 100 feet they drop rapidly
| ia = much lower region of the atmos-
! phcr9
Tho skin Of the diamond back rattle
snake is utilized in Florida as harome-
/ ter When preserved Xix" rawhidc and
hung up the skin will begin to emit beads
Of moisture at the first indications OF a
storm. even though several hours before
the arrival of the atmospheric disturb
uncc.
Tho town of Winchester, Mass. is now
| almost entirely bereft of cats. The SUI
| uerintcn dcnt of the Stat" fowl hatchery
| finding that the animals wrought great
havoc amcnE his poultry fixed up wires
! and at night ran a powerful electric cur
rent through them. During the past tw'
wears over 200 cats have been electro
| cuted.
Tho means by which sea hird.; quoncf
their thirst when far out at sea Is de
scribed by au old skipper, who tells no"
he has seen birds at sea. far from am
land that could furnish them water, hoy
prinr around and under a storm cloud
Gathering like ducks ON a hot day at &
pond. and driniung in the drops of rdil
as they fell. They will smell a rain squal
n hundred miles distant. or even farthe
off. and scud for il with almost incon
ceiy able SWiftncsS.
MANY fish can produce musical sounds
The red gurnard has earned tho name q
scacock from the Growing noise which /
makes, while another species it called tn
uincr. Others. notably two species .
ophidum. have sound producing appara
tus consisting Of small, movable bones
which can BE- made to produce shar
rattle. The curious drumming mad
by the Mediterranean FISH known as tn
magrc can be heard from depth of
fathons.
There are almost 100000 miErator
sheen in Spain which each year travel n
. much az 30 miles from the plains to IN
| mountains and their march. rcStini
places and behavior are governed b
special regulat tons, dating from the -four
tecnth century At certain times no on
may travel the same route as the sheer
which have the right to Craze on all ope
and common land on the way. For thi
nurpose a road 90 yards wide must be lci
on all Enclosed and private property. tn
, Shepherds lead their fioCkS. which follo'
| after and around. The hocks are accom-
, panied by provision mules and by larG
, dogs to guard against wolves, The merin
, sheen travel ~ miles to the mountains
, and the total time spent on the migratio
, there and back is II wecks-Philadelphi
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