The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-05-27
Eggs in Great Britain and the Uni
ted States


WAS taken last year. offers some inter
esting and suggestive statistics when
contrasted with the results of our own
census Of 1854. The population of
Great Britain Sas. in 1881, thlrty-tive
millions. That of the t'nited States
was fifty millions some of the returns
of this census will illustrate the vast
difference between the two countries in
the matter of live stock. The figures
are az follows:
Grut Britain. tinted states.
Isl, Is>i.
Cattle l5t.a,1n .0,s.i1n
Horses .. ;,.s9,oa l0,'aiU0
swine 3tS. ,W 3,,hSWm
Sheep 3l,t~i,OG 'G.N,tW
Fowls AL kind. ..H9+',tsU l2l.M.,o"
Including .00t0l for estimated number ON
ranches and public lands
OF the fowls" in the above table,
Great Britain has a little over twenty
millions of the ordinary barnyard fowl.
The remainder are ducks. geese and tur-
KEYS. In our census. one hundred and
two millions are of the harnyard kinds
The egg product Of this country Is put
at four hundred and fifty seven million
dozen, or forty.iiye eggs for each fowl;
that of Great Britain. at the same rate,
would he seventy five milliCn dozen. In
1855, Great Britain imported seventy
one million dozen eggs, which, at the
same rate for 1885, would give an aggre
gate Of one hundred and sixty.six mil
lion dozen for home production and i'm
port, or abou, four dozen a head for the
population. In the last year for winch
we have official returns, the import OF
eggs To the United States was sixteen
millions. four hundred and eighty seven
thousand. two hundred and four dozen.
and our export was Two hundred and
ninety.tive Thousand dozen. The con-
sumption of eggs in the l nited States.
adding home production to tho import,
is about nine dozen for the entire popu-
lation. IL il no wonder the country
grows SO fast and vigorous, when 1t has
at hand such stores Of nutritious food.
The value Of our egS import Is nearly
three millions Of dollars. IA stated IN the
customs returns, or about SIX cents IA
dozen. Happy is the consumer who can
buy them for twelve cents, while he
who eats them at the restaurant pays
five or ten cents for each specimen that
he takes upon his plate. 1t is a curious
fact. known to those who take meals at
our city restaurants, that the price Of
eggs il unvarying They cost as much
there in January rs in June or the
egg import into the United States, three
folrths come from Canada. mostly from
Quebec and Ontario. One.iiitli comes
i'm via OF Vermont, and another ilfth at
Buffalo, another at Niagara. aud another
at Boston and OgdensGurg. Nearly
onc.half of the importation is Into New
England. ami the remainder arrives at
New York, and at Niagara and Buffalo.
II il curious fact that China sends us
two hundred and twenty thousand dozen
eggs, worth eleven thousand. four hun
dred and sixty.six dollars. and that San
Francisco reports an import OF eggs to
that amount exactly. John Chlnaman
clings closely to his native land and to
such delicacies as those eggs must be
after travelling fourth of the circuit OK
the globe. Our census returns show
that the egg product--the average to the
laying fowl-depends much upon the
accessibility to good markets, and to the
exercise of care and the administration
of good food. Thus the New England
states average about eighty eggs to the
fowl. New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois.
and Ohio average sixty. AMI in some OF
the southern states the average i as low
as forty. In some Of the states poultry
is raised more for the table than for the
eup product chester i. Dewey. in
American Agricultural.