The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-27
MAJESTY, THE HEN
raypERG PROVES HER TO
r.,E NATIONAL BIRD.
..udIug Figures In Regard
value of the Country's
Eggs md Poultry.

,srsss of Theodore sternberg BIZ
commercial club recently ha
.vuch comment. A wide-awak
c,tv man wrote Mr.. Sternbere
~ further information. This re
,auent forth the following letter:
III Kan. December 15.--Dear oir
"a hitter requesting me 10 writ
tac,s and the figures of the poul
isrv ts received, and / take grea
IN complying WITH your Request
= earliest recollection | nave pee
ssIled a poultry fanc.er." Tha
III like our domestic fowls. Tn
States census is the official sourc
data below.
States. iO2, Z12,lS5; turkeys, duck
Z. 8,235,1N.
rs,,s of 1890 reports fowls, 25S,S7l,
s~xs ducks and geese, 26,73S,3l5.
N Downs Of Atlanta, Ca, las
asiiyered an address upon "Tn
irdrstry" before the Georg.,
~ricultural society. Mr.. Downs ha
studied the subject, and is con
IN his figures. After giving tn
as above from the government
reports he adds:
increase in the past six year
al all proportionate with tn
bet ween 1880 and 1890 Get me IN
n Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska
the Pacific States and Missouri
tbe rate of increase since 1880 ha'
y greater than from 1850 to 1880
ere In 1876 $50, 900. 900 chickens an,
other fowls, whose egg produc'
at u cents "a dozen, we estimat,
oO,OOO, and poultry sold as meat
Boo more, or n total OF S290,0oO.eOo.'
kier to realize the magnitude OF
khlstry | shall compare 1t WITH
(her matters for which we have re-
|tatistlcs:
h poultry product for 1896. $500, 900, 0Ol
4 cotton crop for 1896. -. $50, 900 ,0ot
n wheat crop for 1896. 49,. 237, 93S, yys
n swine for 1895. .......... 1856, 52y, "A,
81 cat crop for 1896. ........ 163, 6o5, %.
n potato crop ..........-... 1s,9Si,JOl
cotton may have been king, but
NStic fowl can crow over cotton!
Is City Is a greet hog market, but
4ea, 10000 and raised 1T more than
d.
d Is great. but I'M 1896 the hen saw
I157 10000 and raised It more than
be- must have been few in the hill
for the hen product exceeded in
botatoes more than 5000, 200, 900.
the cost of the postoffice depart
Sas $50, 626 900. The hens paid tina
nearly 1900, 100000 left to put into
Ral savings banks.
0tal interest on mortgages in 1896
kfS.GT. The American hen not only
"a enough to pay the interest, but
more to pav 500 900, 900 on the prin-
Why, a few years ago, l myself
under a mortgage of $3.50 Ny
i, raised OF, a village lot. paid 1t or.
year.
YOU, ] honor the hen, and she, IA
lalf a chance, will pay every farm
&e In this country and buy ex
enough to knock the spots off the
1ftgaees. / have more respect for
nyard hen which attends TO BUSH
d the good farmers wife or daugh-
0 looks after II and gathers the
nd markets them than for the
! calamity free silver bowler Of
$ this country produced ST., $40, 900
Of silver. The despised hen. pro-
~, 10000, and she never read
Financial School," either. The
financler that ever lived was
INES hen" which laid an egg on
ay and Sunday she laid two"
w favor of making the hen a Ma
sue. Let us discard from our Goa,
the eagle and put r. cock. ram.
~ u men. couchaqt, with a golden
nolazoned with eggs. and tho
;eep the pot boiling. and don't you
7 the free coinage of eggs,
this Nation paid. on Account Of
;, 1853, 2S0,G7S, and some folks Kick
But our hens paid that bill
me next war.
y ,Cshtornia produced in poultry
VI ~, si.oVo,0p. The 1896 product Of
~ worth s6,O0o,0O0. The poultry
~ ~ Kansas which was shipped out
y SA .,s IN 1896 was Si.oOO,000 worth,
= snapped product of Missouri IN
NJ, over SOo0,0OO. Henry county
npped over S40l, 100 worth of poui-
sSss. Armour, last year. handled
worun OF dressed poultry.
:, quay a. special dispatch giving
., q ~ me lead and zinc output for
VI Missouri for the current year.
M Iorty-nHne weeks production,
Inns Is not one-half the value OF
va.put of the Missouri hen. I
'a ~, or 1880 informs lis that we
s country in round numbers
~ We have, besides, a vast
~ small holdings and village
~ ali of these fowls are kept.
y e'e nerd OF cattle; we note the
!, .ne pastures and stables. hut
" ses the vast number of fowls In
orause they are In small flocks
~ ~ isrms and about all these
~" o agg regation OF cattle and
ha great stockyards of your city
~ ~ overlooked: it forces itself on
~ Iut, IN the time to come. the
c %;,ouucts which viii center at
o Gny viii be of equal Importance
mn, rae Tor a moment what vast
j,p,esented If each mems egg
Increased ONE dozen eggs d
rh,s r size increased by halt a
jmn hetter care and systematic
males, will easily do.