The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-27
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IN CASH
Paid Out in Wichita Last
Year.
FOR POULTRY AND EGGS
Produce Business Has AsSum-
ed Enormous Proportions.

When people learn that $4,000 is paid
out for poultry and eggs in Wichita in
one year they viii begin TO realize that
the old hen must be taken into account
when the wealth producing industries OF
Kansas are enumerated.
Southern Kansas has finally reached
the conditions OF some Of the eastern and
middle states where the farmers wife
buys the groceries and clothes for the
family with the money received for her
butter, poultry and eggs For the fifteen
/ years following the settlement of this
part CT Kansas, the farmer did not make
any money out OF his poultry. When
the hens laid eggs they We're not worth
anything. but the produce dealer came
along and revoluuonized the poultry and
Z egg trade like the discovery of the ice
plant revolutionized pork packing
J. p. Baden of Winfield was the pio-
neer produce dealer in this section Of
Kansas. lie first made a market the
year round Tor eggs and he made a for
tune besides helping the farmers. Other
dealers followed Mr.. Baden and the poul~
Try and egg trade in this section OF kan
sas is becoming enormous.
Kirschbrapn & Sons are the largest
dealers in eggs and butter in this city.
Some OF the other dealers say this firm
handles nearly half the eggs sold here.
When asked in regard 10 their business
By reporter for the Eagle yesterday. j.
c. Sherod. manager for this house, re-
Piled that the COW and the hen were the
belefsctors Of Kansas. II night fail TO
rain end the hot winds come and seorch
the corn crop. but the cow and the old
ben kept right along doing business at
the old stand.
The reporter was trying to get some
statistics In regard 10 the hen and he
ascertained that Kirschbraun & Sons had
shipped 1o0 car loads OF eggs from this
city last year which made Z 600 90) doz-
ems. Alr. Sherod said their eggs cost
about eleven cents per dozen last year
That would make $l32. 600 this one house
paid for eggs last year, and II all the
other houses only shipped that many
eggs it would make $4,000 paid for eggs.
Mr. Sherod said the indications point 10
a much larger shipment this year and
he now believed that eggs would cost
two cents a dozen more this year than
last Meat is high and people use more
eggs. Then the cold storage plants have
enabled dealers to hold eggs for a long
time even in very hot weather. st. Louis
dealers are putting a large stock Of eggs
in cold storage.
Mr.. Courter Of the Courier Produce co.
said yesterday that he thought his house
and Walton Bros. did most of the poul-
try shipping and he was certain that TO
say a million pounds Of poultry was ship
ped from this city last year would be
conservative statement. The average cost
per round would be about seven cents and
that would be $4,000 for the year which
added to the cost of the eggs make the
1894. 900 This money IS not all paid di-
rectly to the farmers IN this city. Some
Of the merchants in surrounding towns
buy eggs and sell them in this city. It
Is safe. however. TO say that the eggs and
poultrv which brought all this money
came from the territory near Wichita.