When Berley Winton, poultry expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was informed by the Press last week that a Japanese farmer named Kichi Fujikura claimed a new world's record of 361 eggs in a year for his Leghorn hen, he grudgingly exclaimed: "That's mighty fine, but the farmer's claims are unofficial. We don't recognize them."
Expert Winton proudly pointed to an official mark of 360 eggs, set by a Corvallis, Ore. Leghorn in 1934-35. Questioned further, he consulted his records, discovered that the official world's champion was a Black Orpington which laid...
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