The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-10

That made 10O00,0o0,0O0 eggs. The
exact figures for the Department Of
Agriculture in 1900 are 10000, 524, 1884.
This doesn't count those consumed be-
fore getting TO market.
IL everybody In the United States,
under a radical system OF communis'
tic distribution, were to get his fair
share of chickens. each person would
get three of the birds and lions
share of the fourth. He would get
372 chickens. In the whole of the
year, did you eat 1873 eggsi That was
the figure for the average American.
The lowest figure for eggs was 1914
cents a dozen in 1900. That was the
minimum market price for exports.
Eggs are light affairs, weighing only
about an ounce and half Minorca
eggs are the heaviest, being about five
to the pound. While Wyandotte and
Brahma eggs run seven or eight to the
pound. Probably all the eggs laid in the
United States last year weighed about
G53. 900 tons. This Is about four times
the total tonnage of the American navy,
counting In even older SHIPS.
Could Smash the Navy.
Naval ships are tremendously heavy
for their bulk, while eggs are uncom-
monty light Perhaps battleships weigh
fifty or sixty times as much per cubic
inch as eggs. So ii can easily be seen
that IL all the eggs of the country were
rolled together into one 1t would make
a fairly stable affair. Say, an egg
about $50 miles long and proportioned
like other eggs.
All the hens In the country, If rolled
together, would make fine, handsome
bird weighing just about million tons.
Hens average about eight pounds
apiece. The figure varies both with the
individual and the breed, which weigh
as follows:
Pounds. Pounds
Wyandottes -. .6lh Cochins 49,. .S1a
Plymouth Rocks.7la Minorcas ...... .61a
Jersey Blues. 81 Hamburgs .....Gla
| BrahmaS .......ol2
Brahmas and Plymouth Rocks are the
most profitable and the most plentiful.
Full grown hens are supposed to stand
two feet high. Boosters grow little
more.
Brahmas, besides having the heaviest
eggs and being equally with the Plym-
louth Rocks the most profitable, and
therefore the most popular breed, are
also the biggest. Their standard meas
urement is twenty-six inches, and some
of them get much bigger. A few look
like turkeys, with their heads three feet
from the ground.
The Faithful Hen.
On account OF the faithfulness and In
dustry of the American hens during the
last decade, the American egg peril /;
threatening Europe. In 1890 the eggs
exported from this country were noi
noticeable from the point of view of +hS
quantity, though their beauty and gen
eral excellence was. of course. the same
And in that year the people of thi,
,, country were forced 10 import 10000,
600 eggs for their breakfast tables.
Ten years later the imports had drop
ped off 04.500, 5000 down to 100000
Those came IN almost entirely acros,
, the Canadian and Mexican border
! when there happened to be temporary
scarcity on the American side.
: The exports. on the other hand
D jumped from trace In 1890 to 72.0oo.
$ 900 In 1000. The change Is largely du
g to the perfecting of the cold-storag,
process for eggs. and took place almos
entirely in the last half Of the decade
lS90-1900. Another tremendous gain ap
pears probable for the current decade
u The American hen Is n bird.