The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-23
THE INDUSTRIOUS HEN.
Turning Out sOO.OOO,OOO Dozen ERas and
GOO, 900 Chickens Year

From tht.New York Sum-
"If owned all the hetis IN this conn,
try." said the marketman, rs he cot'n'sa
Dit dozen eggs and put them in Gus
tothste basket, land had place to pas
ttre them In, all would ask would be
ten Years in business, and I'd make IT
very warm for Vanderbilt"
"Ho#'s thstg" asked the reporter
"How's thatG Why. easy, that's how.
Maybe you don't know, yotlhs man, that
10000, 900 cackles, announcing the l'r,h
bt ths same number of eggs, kept the
farmer boys busy every day last year
gathering in tho efforts Of 2G,OOO,OO
hens? But they did. Well, those ef-
forts for 365 days resulted i'll J,GGO,0Oo,-
900 separate and distinct eggs, or SOO,'
DO0, 900 dozen, rs near as / can calculate:
Now, IL took Just 75O,0O0,0OO dozen OF
those eggs to supply the demand Tor
Tom and Jerrys, puddlngs, hard and soit
boiled eggs, egg nog, and liam and eggs
IN this country last year, and eggs was
eggs at that | figure that 30 cents d
dozen, for 1883, was about the average
price. Thirty cents dozen for I50'-
OOO,OUO dozen climbs plumb up to the
comfortable littie purse OF S223, ,oUo,oVo;
There's nothing mem about me, and II
| had the handling of those offerings
Of the nations hens, I'd be satisled WIN
q profit Of two cents on dozen.
"What would be my little dlVvy =?
| Well, II haven't forgot what Old Daboil
drummed into the, I make it ont that
when the old year died would lug home
something like 2l5, 100000, clean and
slick, ahead of the game. Ten years OF
that, and / think / could sit down with
the boys and stay with as heavy jack
pot as any Of EN-"
"What would become OF the other
fifty million dozen p asked the reporter.
"There you are again !" replied the
market man. "lf owned all the hens,
there's another little item that woulc
help me to keep from worrying about
the punctuality of the rent and the infal'
libility of the gns meter. Last year
, must have been good one for people
visiting in the country, for folks broiled,
fricasseed, and roasted something IKE
six hundred million chickens, young
and old. That used mp the little balance
of fifty million dozen eggs. That fifty
million dozen of eggs were turned intt
chickens that gobbled up $500, 200, 0O(
Of the hard-earned coin OF this realm
ciphering the thing down close Mt fifty
cents chicken. Idon't deal in poultry
but from the size of the diamond pins o
the ones that do | don't hesitate
minute to say that there can't be les
than five cents profit on every chickel
they sell. Old Daboll comes up agai
. and lays it down for nickel-plated fac
I, that if owned all the hens in this coui
-. try l would have to make two trips hon
. from the shop at the end of the year. fc
s here would have Sl5, 600, 600 more pile
in the till to be carried away and stufle
!, in the stocking, and Sl5, 600, ,OOOis plent
for one man to carry at one time.
. 80 you see what nice nest egg |
! have at the end of ten years. Andyou
q hardly believe that New York city woul
D chip in about one-thirtieth of the who
pot every year, would you? But 81
J. would. Last year it took 25,0OO,0
d dozen of eggs to satisfy her, and 81
. paid so, 600, 900 to get them. Now, Nc
q York State only keeps hens enough
ii lay about 100000 dozen, and so,
ID course, we have to go knocking aroul
all over the country and part OF Cana'
1n to keep up with the cry for eggs.
,is weuld take all the eggs that NJ
tc York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania a
30 Massachusetts hens are responsible
tat to supply this city with all the egg
oi wants. The $4,000, 900 eggs used h
he last year, if laid i'll n single line,
m after another, without hairs space
100 tween them, would reach from Boston
m at San Francisco. / tell you there's
'Iy thing waiting for some one who can
.st y corner on hens"