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DELUGE OF EGGS

FOREIGNER DOES WELL IN BRITAIN

PROBLEM FOR FARMERS

THE

By RAYMOND MARTIN

HE House of Commons dia-

cussed Chinese eggs the other] day. One member said the best thing to do would be to Iny the eggs on the tablo of the House.

That caused laughter... Bat. the British poultry farmer docs not laugh. He knows that so vast is the total of eggs entering this country from abroad that the figures are almost unintelligible | oxcept to those who dabble in astronomical statistics.

Nearly 1,000 million egga enter ed the Port of London last year. Liverpool and Leith followed, with i 220 and 195 milliona respectively. Then Hull, Glasgow, Harwich. Holyhead and Newcastle.

But while the foreigner is atiil doing far too well out of the British egg market: the domestic hon LA no idle dowager. She

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. accounts for nearly 2,000 million HOGMEXCIANKOSNINGARADISOTRASANAYANATEEKANKAMA

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 This would be felt on the head, and, apparently, no slouch oi that.

4 South African mount that sounds more suitable for a newspaper man than for a cavalryman.

9 A moving feature of London's

underworld.

10 Grasp (unag.).

11 Dependenta that may be oma-

mental but are seldom useful,

12 Like most of these clues this has the necessary twist, but laco may give you a hint.

13 Meal, but it won't make bread.

15 Staya.

18 This valve has a sliding action,

and gives shelter.

.19 it will, in short, servo for a

fabric.

20 I could leave a blank here, you

only have to spell it out,

22 These are the lads to give you

this-nearly.

24 It may crow yet.

26 Buffers 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 n letter makes bread!

2 Dresses the upper part of the

vessel.

3 Something wrong here! Deer

isn't intended.

4 Givo witness at a trial,

6 Mistakes.

6 Hawk this a pedlar's licence not

nocded.

7 To the point.

8 Manages, but not without a little

stimulant

14 Supplementing.

15 Vegetable.

10 A countor-motion that makes

ten men mad,

17 Pen.

18 Cunning

|21 There's tin about here, or in this

place.

23 Step beyond, but

21 flee from this.

25 What the little lambs do; not what the bulls and bears and stags do.

28 Seize.

20 Avow.

Yesterday's Bolution.

ROTTEDE WILTON

E I ENVER RU FATHER A IMPA 13

gga in the year, puta hor beat) leg forward In April and gives November up as a bad job.

NOVELTY FRINGE

Trims Chic Orange Wool Jumper

COLLAR STYLE

"Fringe Trimmings". The orange wool jumper fastened with

buttona. The metal short elecvca are frayed out at the capes, and the small scarf collar which

is through a metal ring similarly fringed.

ANIMALS-FRIENDS OF WOMEN

KING OF LUNDY ISLAND

HARMAN FREED FROM PRISON

London,

Martin Coles Harman, Anancier and "King of Lundy Island", was released from Wormwood Scrubbs Prison on Monday. He had served 14 months of the 18 months' sen- tenco imposed on him in 1933 for fraudulent conspiracy in connection with the affairs of the Chosen Cur- poration Ltd. Ho had carned- the full amount of remission by his good conduct.

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

Just after seven o'clock an empty taxicab entered the prison. At 7.15 it drove out, agnia apparently empty. Later, however, It was rumoured that Harman was in the Taxi, sitting on the floor no that he could not be seen. All that could be learned at the prison some time afterwards was that he had gone.

Mr. R.B.D. Brooks, of Richard Son, Harman's solicitors, Brooks Fog is not conducive to egg-T is interesting to note just how said: "Mr. Harman intends to take laying, and she puts up a distinctly much the average woman in de-a fortnight's rest in a quiet place. better performance in Decemberi pendent upon the animals for her Not even his brother, Mr. S. T. Harman, knows where he is going. than November. Her figures Im-clothes. prove through January and Feb- rusry right up to June,

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, 1 There are 14 million hens over raiment of the modern woman were understand, will be at Angel Court, a year old, but a paltry 11⁄2 million gathered together under one roof,us before." Cockя. Nothing

the collection would represent a astronomical

well-stocked menagerie. The felt

about the unfortunate males, who are killed off and eaten almost as soon as their sex in discovered. But, notwithstanding, the good Britlah hen keeps up a Ateady average of 100 eggs a year,

Harman was known as the 'un- hat and its origin in a rabbit. At one time he owned the laland, hat that dame fashion deerves may crowned king of Lundy Island'. muskrit, or beaver. For the fur which is in the Bristol Channel.

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coats there seems to be no limit upon the animal range. It may be made from the pelts of lowly from Britain for eggs. i shoil, The record is 361 eggs in 364 rabbits or from the more expensive But there are others from China- days, Breed. Australorp. Specles sable, ermine, leopard, or sent.

dried, pulped; liquid-23,000 tons of English Buff Orpington taken

Silkworms supply dress mater-of liquid eggs is a recent year's to Australia and adapted to Com-als, oysters furnish pearls, cloth figure, and that is equal to 750 monwealth conditions, which are fabrica may come from the wool of million fresh cggu. Price Gd. exacting. The record was actually set up in New Zealand. Name of sheep or the hair of the Hama. to 7d. per pound."

Gloves niny once have been the akin hen, Te Kawau Princesa.

and even the pig, while the modern of the chamois, or some rare deer, miss goes to the reptile house for her shoes. Snakes, lizards, and crocodiles help to supply footwear. and the soles represent the hides of the cattle which roamed the plains.

Her highness was bought by an American poultry farm for £150, and died in Michigan. She weigh ed Glb. 4oz. and in her grand year she laid 46lb. of eggs.

CONSUMPTION

Yet our consumption of egge is far from astronomical-110 per hoad per year-one fresh and one imported each week.

the year.

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

Francis Bacon found that a hen There are many ways of trans- parting and storing eggs. Sir 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 filled with lime water. Some tanks hold

fresh for months. 150,000 eggs and the eggs keep

Canadians eat three times that

"Waterglase" is the most popu lar domestic preservative, but it amount of eggs, while Americans

is not liked by the trade. You can eat-180-each-and-Belgians-213-In-Al-6,000 of them-are-sealed-in 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 If a Belgian peasant brings aand the assistant followed by is an American system, and con- bid egg to market and sells it and G5 per cent. hatch. is found out she is fined two good scientific methods give us just over successfully to Belgium.

Our highly sists of gassing. It has spread eggs for overy bad one on the 70 per cent.

etall.

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Of home-produced eggs, 80 per send many of these potential Egypt, you might Imagine, would cent, come from general farms and

roasters to England. Actually, amall holdings, that is to say, pro-Hungary is our chief foreign sup- ducers who treat poultry as their plier, and the quantity is on the second line. There, are A

few increa8€. gigantic henneries, ono specially noteworthy in Midlothian where over 70,000 birds are kept.

WORTH MILLIONS

na alarm clocks, ultra violet lamps, Those are in shell.

R BASSETT MB) and incubators. ALISON I TEMPLE

REFRIGERATION

In England more and more eggs are being "refrigerated." Forly- five million cubic feet of space is available under refrigeration for imported eggs at the various British ports of entry. Here, too, are grading and weighing machines, and inspectors who do the "candling," throwing out on the averago one egg in 15 as a "dud."

"Candling" is done in these scientifle days by electric light, although a candle showe just as effectively the air space between the yolk and the shell which de- notes even to the inexpert whether the egg is venerable or poachable. Hence the expression "can't hold a candle to," which meant originally "light will show up any defect." -

Of the astronomical quantities But large-scale poultry-farming of eggs imported, one-third come the most modern contrivances auch millions a is full of pitfalls, notwithstanding from Denmark. Danish bill £21⁄2

year for eggs alone,

But the Chinese, as the Houst Incubating, however,, is not a of Commons heard last week, know IT IGNORED LE modern thing. The Egyptian in- something about eggs, having been NEST LE N NINETY cubator, simple and efficient, was meddling with heng when we were Arst made before the time of still wondering if bronze made LEVIEW A BILLET

Mosca, The same model is used better knives than fint. Chinese by the fellaheen of to-day, BILINCOLN E H

Leggs were recently fetching 6s. 3d. the great hundred, and a "great INSULTU IGNITE This Nile-type incubator, is hundred" is 120. GA NOTTS T8 cheap. It avoids the use of glass

or wood. No oil lamps or electric Most of these imported eggs are This test can be carried out at A DVIGEE TIERCE cables are required. It is a deme-auctioned at the London Egg Ex-home. Some people still believe

■UM®ØLVE shaped mud hut, and it houses change by London Bridge. Six that a good egg falling on its nose ENGUES Y RHYMES 6,000 eggs at a sitting-not quite i 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.

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