The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-07-26
THE INDUSTRIOUS HEN.
Turning Out SOO.OOO.OOO Dozen OF Eggs
and 600. 900 900 Chickens q Year.

Turning Out 500. 900. 900 Dozen OF Eggs
and 6OO, ,OOO, 900 Chickens Year.
"If I owned all the hens in this
country" said the marketman, as he
counted out dozen eggs and put them
in a customers basket, land had
place to pasture them in, all would
ask would be ten years in business. and
Id make it very warm for Vanderbilt"
"Hou's that" asked the reporter.
"How's that? Why, easy, that's how.
Maybe you don't know, young man.
that over 26,OOO,OOO cackles, announo-
ing the birth of the same number Of
eggs. kept the farmer boys busy every
day last year gathering in the effects Of
over 36,O0O,uU0 hens? But they did.
Well, these effects for ;,65 days have
resulted in o,6O0,0OOO00 separate snd
distince eggs, or S0O,00O 600 dozen, AS
near As can calculate. Now, it took
just 750. .0@o, ,OcU, dozen of these eggs to
supply the demand for tom and ferries.
pu.ldings, hard and soft boiled eggs.
ege-nog and ham and eggs in this
country last year. and eggs was eggs ut
that. l figure that 30 cents dozen in
1St''' vas dDciO tltc oStIuSC PIItV-
Thirty cents a dozen for 75O,00O,O00
dozen climbs plump up to the comforta-
ble little purse OF S25O,OOO,000. There's
nothing mean about me- and if l had
the handling of these offerings of the
nations hens I'd be satisfied with
profit Of > cents on dozen.
What would be my little divvy9
Well, If l haven't forgotten what old
Daboll drummed into me, I make it out
that when the old year died would
lug home something like $15,OOO.OOn
clean and slick ahead of the game. Ten
years of that I think I could sit down
with the boys and stay with as heavy 4
jack pot as any of EN-"
"What would become of the other
5O,0OO,0OO dozen?" asked the reporter.
"There you are again. replied the
market man. "If l owned all the hens.
there's another little item that would
help to keep me from worrying about
the punctuality of the rent and the in
fallibility of the gas meter. Last year
must have been good one for people
visiting in the country, for folks broiled.
fricassed, and roasted something like
GOO, 100000 chickens, young and old.
That used up the little balance of so
OOO,O 900 dozen eggs. That 5O,O0O,OOU
dozen of eggs were turned into chickens
that gobbled up $3OO,OOO,OO0 of the
hard learned coin of this realm, cipher
ing the thing down close at 50 cents
a chicken. don't deal in poultry, but
from the size Of the diamond pins of
the ones that do, don't hesitate
minute to say that there can't be less
than 5 cents profit on every chicken
they sell. Old Daboll comes up again
and lays it down rs a nickcl-platcd fact
that if I owned all the hens in this
country I would have to make two
trips home from the shop at the end Of
the year, for here / would have $t5.-
0OO, 900 more piled in the till to be
carried away and stuffed in the stock
ing. and sl5,OOo,0OO is plenty for one
man to carry at one time.
$50 you see what a 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-thirtieth
of the whole pot every year, would your
But she would. Last year it took 25,-
coo, 900 dozen of eggs to satisfy her,
and she paid s9,9o0o0O to get them.
Now, New York State only keeps hens
enough to lay about s.O6O,OOO dozen.
and so. of course, We have to go knock
ing 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, Penn
svlvania and Massachusetts hens are
responsible for to supply this city with
all the eggs it wants The 25,GOO,OOn
dozen eggs used here last year, if laid
in a single line, one after another, with
out hairs space between them, would
reach from Boston to San Francisco.
tell YOU there's q big thing waiting
for some one who can get a corner on
hens. IN. Y .Sun.