The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-03-06
The Industrious Hen.

g IF owned all the hens in this coun-
ny, said the markefnlan, as he
counted out a dozen eggs and put them
in n customer basket, ''and had a
place to pasture them in, all / would
ask would be ten years in business, and
[ d make it very warm for Vanderbilt.
How that2" asked the reporter. -
"How that? Why, easy, that 5 how.
Nav be YOU don't know, young man,
that over &c, Coz, 900 cackles, announc-
ING t,le birth of the same number of
eggs, kept the farmer boys busy every
day last year gathering in the efforts OF
over $4,000, 000 hens? But they did.
Well, those Efforts or 500 DAYS resulted
in $500, 600, 600 separate and distin let
eggs. or 500, 000,0 900 dozen, as near as
can calculate. Now, it took Just $780,
00pgQG0 dozens OF. those. eggs to supply
the demand for Tom and ferries, Tud-
dings, hard and. soft boiled .eggs,gegg-
nOg, and ham and eggs IN the country
last year, and eggs was eggs at that /
figure that so cents a dozen, for 1888,
was about theaaverager price. Thirty
cents a dozen for 75000o,000 dozen
clinbs plumb up to thegcom sortal,le- lit
tie purse OF 1922, 100000. There's
nothing mean about me, and if / had
Nation hens I'd be satisfied with a
profit of two cents on q dozen.
s.What would be my little dizzy? Well,
if haven't forgotten what old Daboll
drumIned into me, | make it out that
when the odd year died l would lug
home something like S15, COZ, 600, clean
and Slick, ahead Of the game, Ten
years of that, and think / ST ouId sit
down-with- the boys and stay with as
heavy Jackpot as any of 'em.
what would become of the other
fifty s'iLli99n on d DOZEN asked the re-
There you are againP''srapIiud the
marketaaan, eff / owned all the hens,
there's another Little item that would
help me to keep me from Worrying
about the punctualfty OF the rent and
the infaflibility of the gas meter. Last
year must have beenra good enc for
people visit ng, in the country, for folks
brOiled, fricasseed and roasted some
thing like six hundred million chickens,
Young and old. That used up the bal
ance of fifty million dozen eggs. That
fifty million dozen of eggs were turned
into chickens and gObbled up $500, 000,-
900 of the hard-earned coin of this
realm, ciphering athe thing down close
III ulIy, CcnUS Il chicken. Il uOn bt~u0dl
in poultry, but from the size of the dia-
mond pins of the ones that do. l don
| hesitate aminute to say that there can t
be less than five cents profit on every
chicken they sell. Old DabolI comes
up again and lays it down for nickel
plated fact that if / owned all the hens
in tbs country would have to make
trips home from the shop at the end OF
the year, for here | would have $15,-
0O0,0 more piled in the till to be car
ried away and stuffed in the stocking,
and &15, 100000 is plenty for one man
to carry at one time.
. So you see what a nice nest-e9g Z d
have at the end of ten years. And
you'd hardly believe that New York
| City would chip in about one-thirtieth
of the whole pot every wear, would youP
| Last year it took $4,000, 600 dozens OF
eggs to satisfy her, and She paid So
| 0O1, 900 to get them. Now, New York
State onlp keeps hens enough TO lay
about 5000. 600 dozen, and so. ofcourse,
we have to go knocking around all
| over the country and part of Canada to
| keep up with tile cry for eggs. 1t world
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
| %, zoo, 900 eggs used here last year,
| if laid in n single line, one after an
other without hairs space between
them. would'reach from Boston to San
| Francisco. / tel you there's q big
| thing waiting" for some one who can get
u corner on hens AN Y. San. -