The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
rHE INDUSTRIOUS HEN.
Turning out 100000 ~ Dozen OF Eggs
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From the New York Sun.
eff owned all the hens In this eoun-
try, said the marketman, as he counted
out a dozen eggs and put them in a Gus
toners basket, '+and had a place to
pasture them In, all / would ask would
be 10 years in business, and I'd make it
very warm for Vanderbilt"
Flows that?r asked the reporter.
"How's that? Why, easy that's how.
Maybe you don't know, young man that
over 26, GGGG 0GGG cackies, announcing
the birth of the same number of eggs,
kept the farmer boys busy every day
last year gathering in the efforts OF
over 36, 000, 900 hens, but they did
Well, those efforts for 300 days resulted
in 5000, 000, 900 separate and dis
tinct eggs, or SOC, 900 900 dozen, as
near as i can calculate. Now it took
Just $50, 000, 900 dozens of those eggs to
supply the demand for Tom and ferries,
buildings hard and soft -boiled eggs,
egg-nog and ham and eggs in this coun.
try last year, and eggs vas eggs at that,
L figure that 30 cents a dozen for 1857
was about the average price. Thirty
cents a dozen for $50 900 900 doze0
climbs plumb up 10 the comfortable
little purse of $225, 900 900. There's
nothing mean about me, and If had
the handling of those offering OF the
nations hens I'd be satisfied with a
profit Of two cents on a dozen.
What would be my little diyvyl
Well ii / hayn't forgotten what old
Daboll dfummed into me, | make it out
that when the old wear died / would
lug home something like $15, 900 900
clean and slick ahead of the game. Ten
years of that, and / think l could stay
with as heavy a jackpot as any of EN-"
What would become of the other So
600, 900 dozen ?" asked the reporter.
"There you are again y replied the
marketman. eff / owned all the hens,
there's another little item that would
help me to keep from worrying about
the punctualty of the rent and the in
fallibility of the gas meter. Last year
must have been a good one for people
visiting in the country for folks broiled,
fricasseed and roasted something ike
COG 900 900 chickens, Young and old.
That used up the little balance of 3d.
900 900 dozen eggs. That 80, 900 900
dozen of eggs were turned into chickens
that gobbled up $500, 600 900 OF the
hard-earned coin of this realm, cipher
ing the thing down close at 80
cents n chicken. / don't
deal in poultry, but from
the size of the diamond pins OF the one
that do / don't hesitate u minute TO say
that there can't be less than five cents
profit on every chicken they sell, Old
Daboll comes mp again and lays it down
for q nickel-plated fact that If | owned
all the hens in this country | would
have to make two trips home from the
shop at the end OF the year, for here /
Eoald have SIS, 900 900 more piled in
the I'll to be carried away and stuffed
i'll ne stocking. and $15. 0OO. eco IS plen,
ty for one man to carry at one time. !
$50 You see what q nice nest egg I'd
have at the end of 10 years. And you'd
hardly believe TINT New York city
would chip in about one-thirtieth OF
the whole pot every year, would
N0ds 1ub ~ CIC WOuil. 14dCt
year it took rs, 900 900 dozens Of eggsto
satisfy her, and she paid $4,000, 900 to
get them. Now, New York state only
keeps hens enough to lay about 8,000,-
900 dozen, and SO, Of course. we have to
go looking 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, Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts, hens are RESPONSE
bic for to supply New York with all the
eggsit wants. The %, 900 900 eggs used
in New York last year, if laid in a single
line, one: after another, without a
hairs space between them, would reach
from Boston to San Francisco. / tell
you there's a big thing waiting for some
n who can get a corner ON hens.