Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-03-08
The Industrious Hen.

eggs and put them in customers
basket, "and place to pasture them
in, all | would ask would be ten years
in business, and I'd make it very warm
for Vanderbilt"
"How's that" asked the reporter.
SLOWS that" Why, easy, that's
how. Maybe that you don't know,
young man, that over 100000
cackles, announcing the birth of the
same number of eggs, kept the farmer
boys busy every day last year gather
ing in the efforts of over 26,000,000
hens; but they did. Well, those efforts
for 1856 days resulted in 9,60O,O 100000
separate and distinct eggs, or 100000,
000 dozen as near as / can calculate.
Now it took just $50, 900, 900 dozen of
those eggs to supply the demand for
tom and ferries, buildings, hard and
soft boiled eggs, egg-nogg aud ham and
eggs in this country last year, and eggs
was eggs at that. | figured that thir>
ty cents dozen for 1883 was about
the average price. Thirty cents
dozen for 750,000,000 dozen climbs
plumb up to the comfortable little
purse of $225,O00,00O. There's moth
ing mean about me, and if had the
handling of those offerings of the ma
tons hens I'd be satisfied with profit
of two cents on dozen.
"What would be my little divvy?
Well, if | bav'nt forgotten what old
Daboll drummed into me, | make it
out that when the old year died |
would lug home something like S15,-
900, 900 clean and slick ahead of the
game. Ten years of that, and | think
could sit down with the boys and
stay with as heavy Jackpot as any
of EN-"
"What would become of the other
50,000,000 dozen?" asked the reporter.
"There you are again. replied the
marketman. "If ! owned all the
hens there's another little item that
would help me to keep from worrying
about the punctuality of the rent aud
the infalibility Of the gas meter. Last
year must have been good one for
people visiting in the country, for
folks broiled, fricasseed and roasted
something like six hundred million
chickens, young and old. That USED
up the Rttle3balanee Of 46fS ihilIi6i
dozen eggs. That fifty million dozer
eggs we're turned into chickens tha
gobbled up S3OO.0OO,OOO OF the hare
earned coin of this realm, cipherinl
the thing down close at fifty cents ,
chicken ] don't deal in, poultry, Blu
from the size Of the diamond pins OF
the ones that do, don't hesitate to SAY
that there cant be less than five cent
profit on every chicken they sell Ole
Daboll comes up again and lays j
DOM for "a nickle-phted fact that if
owned all the hens in this country
would have to make two trips hom
from the shop at the end of the year
for here | would have $4,000, 00O
more piled in the till to be carrie,
away and stuffed in the stocking an,
$15,O0O,000 is plenty for one man t
carry at one time.
$50 you see what nice nest egg I,
have at the end of ten years An
you'd hardly believe that New Yor
City would clip in about one-thirteent
of the whole pot every year, woul
you? But she would. Last year
took twenty-five million dozen of egg
to satisfy ner, and she paid So, 000,00
to get them. Now, New York Stat
only keeps hens enough t@ lay abou
eight million dozen, and, of course, W
have to 60 looking around all over tn
country and part of Canada to kee
up with the cry for eggs. 1t woul
take all the eggs that New York, Me-
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachr
sets hens are responsible for to suppl
this city with all the eggs it want.
The twenty-five million eggs used her
last year, If laid in II single line, on
after another with hairs space bt
tween them, would reach from Bosto
to San Francisco. tell you there's
hiU THING WAITING far snn1e nne VIII