IN THE POULTRY YARD. 165 
We made it a rule to keep nice clean nest eggs in every nest, 
and the wooden eggs had this advantage, that they were so light, 
that, even in the dark, they could be readily distinguished from the 
real eggs. On one occasion, when we were using glass eggs, we 
were surprised at the enormous number of eggs reported as being 
laid by our half dozen hens—something like two to each hen—and 
our hired girl was in ecstasies. She had collected the whole contents 
of the nests—nest eggs and all ! 
