Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-05
Cow VS.. Hen.

The fokvlng statement OF a case
which justow deserves thoughtful at
tentIon, aprently first appeared in an
Iowa journ We clip it from an ex-
change WIN neglected to give proper
credit:
I'VE askethe price OF butter and eggs
| at store ilWinterset, the other day,
and were ii that butter was from s to
loo. pounand eggs 1jc. per dozen.
That is, th6peckled hen brings In one
/ dozen eggs I'd trades them for pound of
the best farms butter in Madison coun-
| ty.
Which b; made the most in the trans
action, the f'mtr's COW or the farmers
hen? Or, ibuf In other words. which
costs the mos, tie dozen eggs or the pound
of butteri
1T is a veygood cow that will aver
age pound Lay, and it's a good two
dozen hens tig will average dozen eggs
day. Now,pes tine farmer make the
most from hisDw or mis- two dozen hens?
The hens, vita gOOd-sized cock thrown
IN to wake thiarmer up in the morning,
cost about Ontenth what the COW costs.
Their shelter lsts less. They eat the
grasshopper, while the COW eats the
grass. They Sirmish for themselves in
the winter, orit on the sunny side of the
straw stack, nile the COW solves the
problem, Wien is the worse, flies IN
August, or blzards in january
But It's me tun to gather eggs than
to milk. lt'sasier to feed The chickens
than to feed t. calf It's no trouble to
hunt eggs, eve in Deem Der; but there is
grief when te butter won't come.
We remembe long ago, that the new
hens nest, or the mems new nest, was
more gratifying to us than the dash
churn.
''If farmers will make butter to sell at
3 or 10 centshad they not better inter-
view the spekled hen, and call on the
lineal descendants Of the cock that con-
viCted Peter of cOwardice, and see If he
can't teach them some lessons in political
economy or ,he best way of making
money?
And then here is another side of the
matter. The should allow the Yankee
hen to slppE the home market, and not
import the eggs OF the French hen. II
Bismack won't take our pork, why
shoulC we take his hen fruit? The
specHd Aen will settle that, with the help
of aUact OF Congress, if the granger will
get rady warm place for her spring
chi0ens, and feed them with food sulta-
bic Or them, and give them a pile of sand
to cratch over, and sprinkle their house
win sulphuric acid diluted with 40 parts
OF gater.
Since people in the city eat butterine,
LEI them have it. Let the calf do the
and you look after the heu and
save yourself grief and your wife vexa-
tion. Get over the nonsense that the
chicken business is too small for you.
Don't despise the speckled hen, and don't
20 back on the COW that will raise you a
calf worth $40."
notwithstanding the vein of humor
running through the foregoing, it con-
tains a core Of hard, common sense
which it would be well TO consider. The
statistics of the Treasury Department
show that during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1885, the United States imported
from foreign countries 16.00S, 400 dozen
Of eggs, valued at 2,476,672. These were
imported free of duty. During the same
period we exported 2l6S3,1 pounds of
butter, valued at$3 ,643,646. Two-thirds,
therefore, of the money received from our
foreign exports OF butter was returned to
foreign countries for eggs, we paying the
freight both ways. For the eggs we paid
4 trihe over the - 1-3 cents dozen, and
or the butter we got a trile over Is %
cents pound. There is no reason what
aver why we should go to France and
Germany for our. eggs, except the silly
notion that chicken raising is too small a
business for the American farmer, and he
therefore clubs the hens out of his barn
yard, and gets down on his knees and
pegs Bismarck to buy his pcrk.-F'drm
md FireSjde.