720 Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. [Sept. 2, 1908. 



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Illustration showing ovaries and stages in growth of egg. 



+ Twin ovules : These joined drop into the oviduct, :ind liecemie covered with the white 

 and shell, forming a double-yolk egg. 



the blood will be seen showinsr through, then stop. Do the same with the lower mandible. 

 On no account draw blood. Properly ])erformed. the oi)cration is quite painless to the 

 fowl. 



What is the effect? The fowl cannot peck atanytiiint; hard any more than a man can 

 bite with a .sore tootli. She can eat soft food and i)ick up grains of corn, eat as well as 

 usual, but if she attacks an egii the hard shell daunts her — it makes her beak smart, and 

 she speedily desists. Presently the horn grows again, but by that time the hen. unless 

 the vice is fairly established in her, has forgotten her taste for eggs. If egg-eating breaks 

 out in a small pen. and there is no absolute certainty which is the cul|)rit. cue the beaks 

 of the whole pen 



