The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-28
EX.PREsInENT nAYrs.
He Discusses on tho Hen Industry What
He Knows About Bad Eggs,

"Farmer" Hayes, as his neighbors in
Fremont, Ohio, call ex.President
Rutherford Burcbard Hayes, came TO
town yesterday, and put up at the Fifth
Avenue tavern, ON Broadway, opposite
Madison square.
Not many farmers stop 81 the Fifth
Avenue hotel, but Farmer Hayes is a
trustee Of the John f. Slater fund for
the education Of the freedmen, and the
annual meeting took place yesterday at
that hotel.
Among other truestees present were
Chief Justice Waite, Messrs. j. A. Stew
art, w. Il, Dodge, M. X. Jesup ana Pres
ldent d. G. Gilman, of John Hopkins
University. Rev. DIR. Haygood, Geor.
gia, general agent ofthe board, and G.
q. Orr, state superintendent OF schools,
Georgia, were also present.
The reports of the general agent,
treasurer and finance committee were
read and approved, after which the
board adjourned.
"Whats your opinion, Mr.. Hayes, Of
the general condition OF the country ?D
inquired journal reporter.
THE weather Is - little backward in
Ohio" replied Farmer Hayes, "but
guess We Will have about an average
| crop Of hay after ALL"
"What do you think Of the efforts now
being made TO introduce civil service re-
form into the federal administratiou?p
81 was very much afraid at one Time
last fall that politics was going to inter-
fere with the business interests of the
American farmers, but happily, the dan
ger was averted."
ado you refer to business In general,
| or any special Industry"
81 refer more particularly 10 the poul-
try business, in which so many peopie
in the western reserve are largely inter
ested."
81 have the finest old hens" continued
Farmer Hayes, growing enthusiastic
over the remembrance which the sub
ject suggested, sin western Ohio, aud
they are all good layers, too"
"Haye you a good market for eggs?u
"Oniy fair. Twas pricing eggs to-day
in your Washington market, and It
made me feel very sorry that Fremont
was so far away from New York;
II suppose, Mir. Hayes, that you are
an expert in handling eggs?"
"Oh, yes; nobody can fool me with a
bad egg. Sometimes smart store
keeper tries to get two or three ahead Of
me ON the count by claiming thom TO be
bad eggs, but IL is very difficult % get
ahead of me. Indeed, 1 mGy say that
J when IL comes down TO a question OF
counting l never get left.n
chow docs the price Of spring chick
ons in Fremont compare with New
YoIkW
~ regret to say that we are obliged to
part with cur fine birds fer a sixteenth Of
q cent less on the pound"
"H0w do they compare as to their
eating qualiues?n
"Weli, | can't answer as to the quail
W Of Fremont spring chickens, as US
farmers can't AFFORD TO oat such expeU-
sive food. We are only plain people,
you know"
"BuC / took advantage of the oppor-
tunity afforded by that benevolent man,
Mr.. slater, 10 fill upon spring chickens
at tho Fifth avenue, and must admit
that they are a toothsome and juicy
mOrs6l.n
(Which way do you prefer spring
chicken, Mr.. Hayes2"
"Oh, fried! fried, of course. Every
friend OF the freedman loves fried
chicken, and l aim told that even the
poor freedman himself is not averse to
bite of fried chicken"
GLOW long do you intend TO remain In
| New Yorkm
GAS long as tho fried chickens hold
out, or rather the Slater fund for fried
chicken at the Fifth Avenue hotel"
At this point the conversation was in
terrupted by the approach of n tall,
hungry-looking man, with long-taiied
coat and white inecktie, who told Mr..
Hayes that dinner was ready, when the
latter hastily bid the reporter gOOd-day,
and disappeared through the dining
room door,-[New York Journal.