The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
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The Industrious Hen.

Ill owned all the hens in this cou,.-
:ry,r said the marketnian, as he
counted outa dozen eggs and put them
in . customer basket. 'sand had a
place to pasture them in. all 1 would
ask would be ten wears in business, and
I'd make it very warm for Vanderbilt"
"How's thata" asked the reporter"
'.How that? Why, easy, that, S, bow.
Nav be You don't know, young man,
tnat over 100000 cackles. announc-
ing the birth of the same number of
eggs, kept the farmer BOYS busy every
day last year gathering in the efforts of
over 36,O0O,0o hens? But they did.
Well, those efforts or 365 DAYS resulted
in ESQ.,, oOO, 600 separate and distinct
eggs, or 800.000.0 900 dozen, as near as
can calculate Now. it took Just $780,
100000 dozens OF those eggs to supply
the demand for Tom and ferries, pnd-
dings, hard and soft boiled eggs, egg
nog, and ham and eggs in the country
, last year, and eggs was eggs at that.
figure that SO cents q dozen. for 1883,
was about the average price. Thirty
cents O. dozen for 7o0. 600, 900 dozen
climbs plumb up to the comfortable lit
tie purse OF S225, Ooo, 200. There's
nothing mean about me. and if / had
the handling of. those offerings of the
Nations hens, I'd be satisfied with a
profit of two cents on Dozen.
Whist would be my little divy? Well.
if / haven't forgotten what old Daboll
drummed into me, make it out that
when the old year died | would LUG
home something like $4,000, 900. clean
and slick, ahead of the game Ten
years of that. and think 81 ould sit
down with the boys and stay with a.
heavy Jackpot as any of EN-" - f
What would become of the other
fifty million dozen?". asked the re-
porter.
There you are AGAIN." replied the
marketman. IF owned all the hens.
there's another little item that would
help me TO keep me from worrying
about the punctuality of the rent and
the infallibility of the gas meter. Last
year must have been q good one for
people visiting in the country, for folks
broiied, fricasseed and roasted some
thing like six hundred million chickens.
young and old. That used up the bal
anee of fifty million dozen eggs. That
fifty million dozen of eggs were turned
into chickens and gobbled up $500, O00.-
900 of the hard-earned coin of this
realm, ciphering the thing down close
at fifty cents a chicken. don't deal
N poultry, but from the size of the dis
m0nd pins of the ones that do l don't
hesitate minute to say that there can't
De less than five cents profit on every
chicken they sell. Old Daboll comes
up again and lays it down for nj excl
plated fact that If i owned all the hens
in this country would have to make
trips home from the shop at the end Of
the year. for here | would have S15,-
0O0.000 more piled in the till 10 be ear
ried away and stuffed in the stocking.
and Sls.sss9-es0 is plenty for one man
to carry at one tine.
40 you see what nice nest-egy I'd
haze aaf the end Of ten wears. And
Irou' hardly befiere that New York
City would chip N about one-thirtieth
OF the whole pot every year. would you?
Last year it took 2 ,o0b,UU0 dozens OF
eggs 10 satisfy her. and she paid 49,
oOO,O00 10 get them. Now, New York
State onlp keeps hens enough to lay
about 100000 dozen, and 50. 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 aH 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
B.eo.0e0 eggs used here last year.
If laid in a single line, one after an
other. without a hairs space between
them. would reach from Boston to San
Francisco. j tel Yen there's big
thing waiting for some one wire can GET
corner on hens."-H T. run.