Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-03-08

"If I owned all the hens in this
country" said the marketman, as
he counted out a dozen eggs and put
them i'm customers basket, land
had place to pasture them all in,
all i would ask would be ten years
in business. and I'd make it very
warm for Vanderbilt.
"How's that ?" asked the repor-
ter.
"How's that? Why, easy, that's
how. Maybe ayou don't know,
young man, that over 20, 900, 00O
cackels, announcing the birth of the
same number of eggs, kept the far
mer boys busy every day last year
gathering in the efforts of over Sc,
600. 600 hens But they did. Well,
those efforts for $50 days resulted in
1900, 600, 900 separate and. distinct
eggs, or $4,000, 900 dozen, as near
as I can calculate. Now lit took
just $50, 900. 900 dozen of those eggs
to supply the demand for Tom and
ferries pudding, hard eand.soft boil
ed eggs, eggnog and ham and eggs
in this icountryilast. year, and eggs
were eggs at that. / figure that
thirty cents a dozen, for 1888, was
about the average price. Thirty
cents dozen for 750, 100000 dozen
climbs plumb up to the comfortable
little spurse $225. 900, 900. There's
nothing mean about me, and If L
had the handling of those offerings
of the nations hens I'd be salts
fed with a profit,of two cents on a
dozen.
"What would be my little dizzy :?
Well, il I.khaven't.. forgotten what
old DabOll druInmed into me, /
make it out that when the old year
died / would lug home something
like $l5,000,000, clean and slick
ahead of the game. Ten years of
that, and / think ! could sit down
with the boys and stay with as hea-
Wy a jack pot as any of 'em.
"What would become of the Otn-
er 20, 000, 900 dozen 2" asked the re-
porter.
"There you are again @ replied
the market man. eff / owned all
the hens. there's another little item
that would help me to keep from
worrying about the punctuality of
the reat aud the Instability CT the
gas meter. Last year must have
been q good one for people visiting
in the country, for folks brOiled,
fricassed and roasted something like
600, OOO, 900 chickens, young and old.
That used up the little balance of
80, 900, 900 dozen eggs. That 90, OOO,-
900 dozen of eggs were turned into
chickens that g0bbled up $500, 000,-
600 of the hard earned coin of this
realm, ciphering the thing down
close at 80 cents chicken. l don't
deal in poultry, but from the size
of the diamond pins of the ones
that do, I don't hesitate minute to
say that there can't be less than
cents profit on every chicken they
sell. Old Daboll comes up again
and lays it downsfOr nickel-plated
fact that if / owned all the hens in
this country | would have to make
two trips home from the shop at
the end of the year, for here [
would have $50, 900, 900 more piled
in the till to be carried away and |
stuffed in the stocking, and $4,000
600 is plenty for one man TO carry |
at one time.
$50 YOU see what nice nest egg
I'd have at the end of ten years.
And you'd hardly believe that New |
York city would chip in about one
of the whole pot every |
year, would you? But she would.
Last year ii took $4,000, 900 dozen of
eggsto satisfy her, and she paid So
900 900 to get them. Now, N. York
state only keeps hens enough to lay
about 100000 dozen, and so, OF
course, we have to go knocking
around all over the country and
part of Canada to keep up with the
cry for eggs. 1t would take all the
eggs that New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,
hens are responsible for to supply
this city with all the eggs it wants.
The 25,000,000 eggs used here last
year, if laid in a single line, one |
after another, without hairs space
between them, would reach from
Boston to San Francisco. / tell you
there's big thing waiting for some
one who can get corner on hens"