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DELUGE OF EGGS

FOREIGNER DOES WELL IN BRITAIN

PROBLEM FOR FARMERS

By RAYMOND 'MARTIN

THE

HE House of Commons dis- cussed Chinese eggs the other day. One member said the best thing to do would be to lay the eggs on the table of the House.

That caused Inighter. But the British poultry farmer does not laugh. Ile knows that so vast is the total of eggs entering this country from abroad that the figures are almost unintelligible except to those who dabble in astronomical statistics.

Nearly 1,000 million cggs cnter- ed the Port of London last year.: Liverpool and Leith followed, with 220 and 195 millions respectively. Then Hall. Glasgow, Harwich, Holyhead and Newcastle.

But while the foreigner is still doing far too well out of the British egg market the domestic hen no idle dowager. She accounts for nearly 2,000 million

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HÓTELS, LTD. eggs in the year, puts her beat

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Aeroas

1-This would be falt on the head, and, apparently, no south nt-

that.

G South African mount that sounds more suitable for a newspaper man than for a cavalryman. A moving feature of London's underworld.

10 Grasp (anog.),

11 Dependenta that may be oma-

mentul but are seldom useful.

12 Like most of these clues thin

lus the necessary twist, but Ince may give you a hint,

13 Meal, but I won't make bread.. 16 Stays,

18 This valve has a sliding netion,

and gives shelter.

10 I will, in short, serve for a

fabric.

20 I could leave a blank here, you

only have to spell it out.

22 These are the lods to give you

this-nearly.

24 It may craw yet.

28 Bullers and old, but Stephenson

didn't invent them.

27 Fish meal.

30 Speaking kindly, it's portly.

31 Accustom.

32 Devoured.

33 It requires a hanger to give it'

decorative effect.

Down

1 What with a letter makes brendl 2 Dresses the upper part of the

vessel.

3 Something wrong here Beer

isn't intended.

4 Give witness at a tripl.

Mistakes.

6 Hawk this a pedlar's licence not

needed.

7 To the point,

8 Manages, but not without a little-

stimulant.

14 Supplementing.

16 Vegetable.

16 A

counter-motion that makes ten men mind.

17 Pen.

18 Cunning.

21 There's tin about here, or in this

place.

23 Step beyond, but

24 flee from this.

25 What the little lambs do; not what the bulls and bears, and atugs do

28 Scize.

20 Avow.

Yesterday's Solution.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 0, 1935.

NOVELTY FRINGE

Trims Chic Orange Wool Jumper

COLLAR STYLE

"Fringe Trimmings". The orange wool jumper fastened with metal buttona. The short sleeves are frayed out at the edges, and the small gearf collar which PARACH through 11. metal Aimilarly fringed,

ring

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ANIMALS-FRIENDS OF WOMEN

For is not conducive to egg-TT is interesting to note just how Inying, and she puts up a distinctly much the average woman is de- better performance in December pendent upon the animals for her than November. Her figures im- clothes, prove through January and Feb- ruary right up to June.

There are 14 million hens over a year old, but paltry 14 mililon cocks, Nothing astronomical ahout the unfortunate males, who are killed off and eaten almost as Hoon as their sex is discovered. But, notwithstanding, the good British hen keeps up a steady average of 100 eggs a year.

The record is 361 eggs in 364 daya, Breed, Australorp. Species of English Buff Orpington taken to Australia aud adapted to Com- monwealth conditions, which are exacting. The record was actually set up in New Zealand. Name of hon, Te Kawau Princess.

KING OF LUNDY ISLAND

HARMAN FREED: FROM PRISON

London. Martin Colce Harman, Ruancier and "King of Lundy Island", was released frum Wormwood Scrubbs Prison on Monday. He had served 14 months of the 18 months' sen- tence imposed on him in 1933 for fraudulent conspiracy in connection with the affairs of the Chosen Cor- poration Ltd. He had earned the full amount of reminsion by his Hood conduct..

No one saw him leave the prison. It was not until shortly before ten o'clock that I was learned that Harman had been freed.

Was

Just after seven o'clock an empty At taxicab entered the prison. 7.15 it drove out, again apparently empty. Later, however, it rumoured that Harman was in the lax sitting on the floor so that he could not be seen. All that coukl be learned at the prison some time afterwards was that he had gone.

Mr. R.B.D. Brooks, of Richard Brooks & Son, Harman's solicitora, said: "Mr. Harman intends to take fortnight's rest in a quiet place. Not even his brother, Mr. S. T. Harman, knows where he is going. If all the creatures that are call-Then he will return to the normal ed upon to supply a part of the routine of City life. His offices, i raiment of the modern woman were understand, will be at Angel Court, gathered together under one roof, as before." the collection would represent a well-stocked menagerie. The felt hat that dame fashion decrees may have had its origin in a rabbit. muskrat, or beaver. For the far coats there seems to be no limit upen the animal range. It may be made from the pelts of lowly rabbits or from the more expensive sable. ermine, leopard, or scal,

Silkworms supply dress mater inls, oysters furnish pearls, cloth fabrics may come from the weel of sheep or the hair of the lama, Gloves may

once have been the skin

of the chamols, or some rare deer, Her highness was bought by an and even the pig, while the modern American poultry farm for £150,mlas goes to the reptile house for and died in Michigan. She weigh ed Glb. 4oz. and in her grand year she laid 40lb. of eggs.

CONSUMPTION

Yet our consumption of eggs ta far from astronomical-110 per.

head per year-one fresh and one Imported each week.

Canadians eat three times that amount of eggs, while Americana ent 180 ench and Belgians 213 in the year.

her shoes Snakes, lizards," "and crocodiles help to supply footwear, and the sales represent the hides of the cattle which roamed the plains.

our farms, but a respectable total nevertheless. For labour, one at- tendant and one assistant are re- quired.

Harman was known as the 'un- crowned king of Lundy Island'. At one time he owned the island, which is in the Bristol Channel.

from Britain for eggs in shell. But there are others from China- dried, pulped, liquid-23,000 tons of liquid oggs is a recent year's Agure, and that is equal to 760 million fresh eggs. Price 64d. to 7d. per pound.

There are many ways of trans- patting and storing eggs. Sir Francis Bacon found that a hen stuffed with snow kept well, but; his knowledge did not extend to frozen eggs. That is one way of dealing with the problem. An- other is "pickling"-Immersing in huge concrete tanks Alled with lime water. Some tanks hold 160,000 eggs and the eggs keep fresh for months.

"Waterglass" is the most popu- lar domestic preservative, but it is not liked by the trule. You can All 6,000 of them are sealed wax eggs, oil them, freeze them, the incubator for 21 days. Three or, if you want to be very up-to- weeks later out walk the attendant date, "guaranize" them. The last and the assistant followed by a is an American wystem, and con 65 per cent. hatch. Our highly sists of gassing. It has spread

If a Belgian peasant brings a bad egg to market and sells it and Is found out she is fined two good eggs for every bad one on the scientific methods give us just over successfully to Belgium.

stall.

70 por cent.

Egypt, you might imagine, would

REFRIGERATION

Of home-produced eggs, 80 per sond many of these potential In England more and more eggs cent. come from general farms and roasters to England. Actually, are being "refrigerated." Forty- small holdings, that is to say, pro-Hungary is our chief foreign sup-five million cubic feet of space is ducers who treat poultry as their piller, and the quantity in on the available under refrigeration for

second line. There are a few gigantic henneries, ene specialty noteworthy in Midlothian where over 70,000 birds are kept.

increase.

WORTH MILLIONS

Of the astronomical quantities KOTTED I WILTON But large-scale poultry-farming of eggs imported, one-third come EI EN VERRE

is full of pitfalls, notwithstanding from Denmark. Danish bill £214 the most modern contrivances such millions a year for eggs alone. FATHER A IMPAIR as alarm clocks, ultra violet lamps, Those are in shell. RBI ABSEIT M 8) and incubators. ALISON I TEMPLE

imported eggs at the various British ports of entry. Here, too, aro grading and weighing machines, and inspectors who do the "candling" throwing out on the average, one egg in 15 as a "Lud."

"Candling" is done in these But the Chinese, as the House scientific days by electric light, Incubating; however, is not of Commons heard last week, know although a candle shows just as IT IGNORED LR modern thing. The Egyptian In- something about eggs, having been effectively the air space between NESTLE IN NINETY cubator, simple and efficient, was meddling with hons when we were the yolk and the shell which de WI first made before the time of still wondering if bronze made notes even to the inexpert whether REVIEW A BILLET Moses. The same model is used better knives than flint Chinese the egg la venerable or poachable. cgs were recently fetching Gs. 8d. Hence the expression. "can't hold a LINCOLNE by the fellaheen of to-day.

the great hundred, and a "great candle to," which meant originally

"light will show up any defect." This Nilo-type Incubator is hundred" is 120. INSULT U IGNITE

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This test can be carried out nt er wood. No oli lamps or electric Most of these imported eggs are: ADVICE E TIERCE

cables are required. It is a dome- auctioned at the London Egg Ex-home. Some people still believe TISOLVEU shaped mud hut, and it houses change by London Bridge. Six that a good egg falling on its nose ENSUES Y RHYMES 6,000 eggs at a sitting-not quite hundred thousand pounds a year will not break. But I have never

so many as the big hatcheries on is the annual toll exacted by China 'known thom try this method.

SALESMAN SAM

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