The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-03-19
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Tite Industrious Hen.

IL owned all the hens in this coun,
try" said the marketman, as he
counted out q dozen eggs and put them
in customers basket, "and had a
place to pasture them in, all | would
ask would be ten years in business, and
q make it very warm for Nanderbilt. y
How S thatP" asked the reporter. y
CLOVIS that? Why, easy, that's how.
May be you don't know, young man,
tnat over 26,00O,000 cackles, announc-
ing tie birth of the same number of
eggs, kept the farmer boys busy every
day last year gathering in the eiions OF
over 3G,OOa,0J0 hens? But they did
Well, those efforts or 8G5 DAYS resulted
in $500, 0O0,000 separate ard distinct
eggs, or 800, 100000 dozen, as near as |
can calculate Now, it took lust $50.
OOo,0OO dozens of those eggs to supply
the demand for Tom and ferries, rud-
dings, hard and soft boiled eggs, eco
nog, and ham and eggs in the county
last year, and eggs was eggs at that. /
figure that 30 cents q dozen, for 1883.
was about the average price. Thirty
cents dozen for $50, O,60O,0 900 dozen
climbs plumb up to the comfortable lit
tie purse OF $225,000,000 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 two cents on dozen.
What would be my little divy? Well.
# | haven't forgotten what old Daboll
drummed into me, make it out that
when the old year died l 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 as
heavy jackpot as any of EN-"
"What would become of the other
fifty million dozen?' asked the re-
porter.
"There you are again?n replied the
marketman. "If l 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 infallibiity of the gas meter. Last
year must have been a good one for
people visiting 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, 0OO.-
900 of the hard-earned coin of this
realm, ciphering the thing down close
at fifty cents chicken. / don't deal
In poultry, but from the size of the dia-
mond pins of the ones that do don't
hesitate minute to say that there can't
be less than five cents profit on every
chicken they sell. Old Daboll comes
up again and lays it down for nickel
plated fact that if l owned all the hens
in this country l would have to make
rips home from the shop at the end of
,he year, for here / would have $15,-
700, 600 more piled in the till to be ear
'ied away and stuffed in the stocking,
md $15, 100000 is plenty for one man
10 carry at one time.
$50 you see what nice nest-ecg I'd
lave at the end of ten years. And
Iou'd hardly believe that New York
Jity would chip in about one-thirtieth
II the whole pot every year, would your
LAST year it took 25,0O0,0 900 dozens OF |
'ggs to satisfy her, and she paid &c.
100000 to get them. Now, New York
state onlp keeps hens enough to lay
lbout 5000, 900 dozen, and so, OF course,
ve have to GO knocking around ali
'ver the country and part of Canada to
ieep up with the cry for eggs. 1t would
AXE all the eggs that New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
lens are responsible for TO supply this
ity with all the eggs it wants. The
5, 100000 eggs used here last wear.
laid in q single line, one after an
ther, without hairs space between
hem. would reach from Boston to San
rancisco. I tell you there's biz
hing waiting for some one who can rel
corner on hens ~ " N.,s