The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-14
from the Indianapolis News

AO DSS WIZ oN-S
Indiana is the daily cackle of the
satisfied hen. IF she and her ally,
the turkey hen, were to stop sing
ing their monotonous lay the State
of Indiana would be from S1O,OOO,-
600 to $15,OOO,OOO poorer every
year, and many whole communities
ID Indiana would suffer q financial
paralysis and would wither up and
be whisked away by the breezes that
frisk around the crossroads.
There is nothing in Indiana that
distributes money so widely I've the
State, or that loosens the tight
screws on so many small bank &C
counts. All of this may serve as a
thought-germ for the man whose
habit is to shy a brick at the mother
who pilots her brood across his gar
den lot.
If the hen were given the job, and
were permitted to devote all of her
energies to the general public good,
she would maintain the State House,
the Judiciary and all of the State in.
stitusions, FROM penitentiarles to hos.
pitfalls; she would educate all of the
children in Indiana by meeting the
annual public school expenses, and,
on top # that, in q favorable year,
she would meet the maintenance of
all churches of all kinds in Indiana
and discharge their home and foreign
mission obligations. Her produc
ton, measured by the standard of
the dollar, in many years is more val
liable than the wheat production of
Indiana, and most years she loses
the oats yield production at the half.
way mark.
M OF THE BEST INDUSTRIES.
Indiana talks a great deal about
her Bedford stone production and
the wealth of her glass industries.
The Indiana chicken, through the
summer months alone, distributes as
much money in the State as these in
dustries combined. The Irish and
sweet potato, barley and a half dozen
cereal crops all combined fall far
short in valuation of her produc-
ton.
According to the figures COM
piled by. the Government, the value
of eggs and poultry grown in In.
pisns last year was S15,OOO,OO0. OF
that amount it is estimated that the
egg crop was worth $7,892,215. Ac
cording to the chicken census, In
diana is credited with a population
Of II, lob, 0O6 fowls.
State Statisticisn B F johnson has
just been compiling his poultry sta
tistics for the last twelve months
and has just struck his totals. His
figures are complied, first, by coun-
ties, on the township basis. The ag
gregate for the State shows that the
egg market production in Indiana
last year was Al, dozen
Wholesale poultry dealers, who cover
the entire State, say that the aver
age price of eggs during the last
year WAS q fraction over Is cents a
dozen. On this basis the past twelve
months crop is given q valuation of
$7,067,881.2l, which is but little
short of the Government estimate.
According to State Statistician John
sons returns there have been 37,211,
800 pounds of poultry used and
marketed in Indiana during the last
year. The wholesalers state that 10
cents a pound will be a fair basis to
figure that at. This places the val
ustion of the marketable poultry at
So, 721,160 and makes a to,al of
$40, 739, 941 %.
HEN WORTH MORN THIN PENSIONS.
The estimates made by the whole
ssle poultry dealers on the poultry |
sold in markets, as a rule, fall q little |
short of State Statisticlan J~ohnson's
figures but not much.
Even taking the State ststistician's
estimate, the good hen, in active pro-
duction, dumps q million dollars
more money into Indiana every year
than the Government does in pen
sions. The money goes, too, where
it will do the most good. Many