Klarinet Archive - Posting 001207.txt from 1999/01

From: "Diane Karius, Ph.D." <dikarius@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] MUSICAL EGGS
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 07:48:42 -0500

Oh no - I'm having flashbacks to the grade school science fairs where
I had to judge the best project: "do plants grow better
when exposed to classical or rock music" or "do plants grow better
when watered with water or with Coke"?

(for the curious: plants grew better with classical if the student
wanted to impress the teacher/parental unit etc...; plants grew
better with rock if the student was mad at the teacher/parental unit;
and plants died if they weren't given a little water :-)!

Avrahm Galper wrote:
> Chickens appear healthier and lay more eggs when farmers play music to
> them, researcher Bryan Jones, told international poultry-farmers
> gathering in Atlanta yesterday.
> After surveying more that 100 poultry farmers at a British fair,
> researchers found that 46 percent routinely played music to their
> birds,
> What kind of music they didn't say.
> Maybe Mozart?
Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
1750 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 641o6-1453
email: dikarius@-----.EDU

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