1—Of the five leading pens, three were from New England.
2—The leading pen is owned by Francis F. Lincoln, of Mount Carmel, Conn.
3—The leading pen—White Leghorns—laid 2,088 eggs.
4—Tom Barron’s White Wyandottes finished second, with 2,085 eggs.
5—The average production per hen is 144 eggs.
6—The highest individual record, 265 eggs, was made by a White Wyandotte, owned by Merrythought Farm, Columbia, Conn.
Rabbit-killing Boy Released from Jail.
Oscar Phillipson, of Plainfield, N. J., the nineteen-year-old boy who was recently sentenced to the county jail for 120 days for shooting a rabbit, is at liberty on bail pending an appeal. Former Mayor N. B. Smalley put up the $250 bail.
Ernest Napier, president of the State game commission, and William Hoblitzel, game warden for Union County, conferred with Mr. Angleman, the boy’s lawyer, and an appeal was decided upon. Justice of the Peace Thomas Snape, who sentenced Phillipson, accepted Mr. Smalley’s bond and Mr. Napier paid the $9 costs himself. They then went to Somerville and brought Phillipson home in an automobile.
Young Phillipson has declined a number of offers from men who want to pay his fine. He has declined because he doesn’t want half of the fine to go to the man who informed against him.[Pg 62]