The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-25
THE INDUSTRIOUS HEN.
Turning Out 800, 900, 900 Dosen Of Eggs
and GOO, 900 ,ccc Chickens . Year.

From tho New York Sun.
eff owned all the hens in this coun-
try" said the marketman, as he counted
out dozen eggs and put them in Gus
toner's basket, ''and had a place to
pasture them in, all would ask would
be 10 years in business, and I'd make il
very warm for Vanderbilt"
"How's that?" asked the reporter.
"How's that? Why, easy, that's how.
Maybe you don't know, young man that
over 26,000,00 cackles, 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,O0O,O00 hens, but. they did.
Well. those efforts for 365 days resulted
in 9,60O,0o0,0oo separate and dis
tinct eggs, or 500, 100000 dozen, as
near as I can calculate. Now it took
just 750, 900, 600 dozens Of those eggs to
| supply the demand for Tom and ferries,
puddings hard and soft-boiled eggs,
egg-nog and ham and eggs in this coun-
try last year, and eggs was eggs at that,
| I figure that 80 cents a dozen for 1888
was about the average price Thirty
cents dozen for $50, 600, 900 dozen
climbs plumb up to the comfortable
little purse of 1925, 900. There's
nothing mean about me, and if l had
the handling of those offering of the
nations hens I'd be satisfied with a
| profit of two cents on q dozen.
What would be my little divvy!
! Well if l hayn't forgotten what old
MI. -,
that when the old year died l would
lug home something like $15,000,000
clean and slick ahead of the game. Ten
years of that, and I think could stay
with as heavy a Jackpot as any Of 'em. u
"What would become of the other 50,-
600, 900 dozen?" asked the reporter.
"There you are again !" replied the
marketman. eff owned all the hens,
there's another little item that would
help me to keep from worrying about
the pnnctuality Of the rent and the in.
fallibilitpof the gas meter. Last veal
must have been good one for people
visiting in the country, for folks broiled
fricasseed and roasted something Like
600, 100000 chickens, young and old
That used up the little balance of 80,
100000 dozen eggs. That 5o,Ooo, ,o0t
dozen of eggs were turned into chickens
that gotoled up $3OO,000,O 900 of th'
J hard earned coin of this realm, cipher
! ing the thing down close at 5,
cents q chicken. / don
deal in poultry, but iron
the size of the diamond pins of the one
that do don't hesitate minute to say
: that there can't be less than FIVE cent
} profit on every chicken they sell. OF,
: Daboll comes up again and lays it dow
for nickel-pla fact that if / owne,
all the hens in this country | woul
l have to make two trips home from th,
3 shop at the end of the year, for here
would have $15, 5,000. 900 more piled i
the till to be carried away and stuffe
a in the stocking, and $15, 900 ,000is pier
ty for one man to carry at one time.
$ so you see what nice nest egg i
have at the end Of 10 years. And you
hardly believe that New York cit
t would chip in about one-thirtieth {
the whole pot every year, woul'
e you? But she would. Las
g year it took $4,000, 900 dozens of eggs t
u satisfy her, and she paid 50, 900, 900
8 get them. Now, New York state onl
: keeps hens enough to lay about 5000
600 dozen, and so, of course, we have
0 go looking around all over the countr
It and part of Canada to keep up with til
n cry for eggs. It would take all the ege
IS that New York, Jersey, Pennsylvan
n and Massachusetts, hens are respons
o BILE for to supply New York with all Il
n eggsit wants. The 25,000,O00 eggs use
= in New York last year, if laid in sing
: line, one, after another, without
|, hairs space between them, would reat
g from Boston to San Francisco. tie
If you there's big thing waiting for son
one who can get a corner on hens.