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Some Nutmeg Albinos

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
October
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Hartford special: Some curious albinos have been reported lately in the Xiitmeg state. At Wallingford a small boy had noted for several days an oddlooking bird, as white as milk, skirnming about the shady streets in company with a flock of swallows. Now i the lad, who is an expert stone thrower, wanted that beautiful white bird, both because it was an oddity and because it was difficult to wing with a pebble. The other night he skilfully dropped the scudding bird with a missile. The snowv little íellow proved to be a genuine chimney swallow, perfect in every way, and the purest albino specimen ever taken in the state, perhaps. In North Stonington a farmer killed an English sparrow that was entirely and uniformly white, except that lts bilí and slender legs and toes were of n clear, transparent pink. Norria E. Hamilton of Danbury has albino cucumbers. Last spring he bought some seed from a Philadelphia house and planted it in four hills. The seed. sprouted very quickly and the vines ie produced were unusually thrifty, vigorous, and healthy looking. Presently they were thickly set with tender cucumbers, and Mr. HamïTton was surprisd to fird that each one was as white as milk. They are good, though, of good size, as crisp and well flavored as the best fruit of the kind in the world. When the cucumbers are first set they are cream colored, but the col f changes in a few days to a chalky hue, and when they are fit for the table they are as white, nearly, as snow. They are at no time green in color.

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