Harvesting Hen Fruit, Big Time

We got ten eggs today, which is a new record from our fourteen (we assume all to be) hens. Ginger commented on what a miracle it is that a big, nourishing, hard thing would form in those little bodies every day! We enjoyed an article from the Mason County Journal, dated November 5, 1909, titled "Mason County Hen Fruit." It gives compete feeding instructions for keeping your laying hens producing throughout our long, short-day winters. To paraphrase the Proverbist, there are now five things too wonderful for me, including the way of an egg from a hen.