Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-05
Whats in an tgO!

and not "cofiins of untimely chickens. Here are few facts which any one can figure out to their entire satis- faction. and if not in the habit of sucking eggs and losing time it will prove an interesting pastime for some of our great "hen fruit" enthusiasts around Escondido and those about to embark in the enterprise, and in the language of Col. Sellers, there's mil lions in it." but keep the hen house clean for the benefit of the cackler
 The eagle is the emblematic bird of our country, but the best bird of all our Father made is the faithful cack- ling hen; He put more brains in her little head than He did in the heads of some men, for they don't know how to take care of these barn yard pets when they have them
 The darling hen sings not. neither does she spin, but she lays eggs for the fun of 1t. Paste this in your mem ory and then you'll see that the plumber is not the only person who has a lead pipe cinch the farmer with his hens holds the balance of power. if he only knew it, and has the world at his mercy, unless all the hens go on a strike, but she Is generally con- tent to remain at home and scratch for living with an occasional rest and few notes of that sweetest music to the farmer-"When the hens begin to cackle;" there is something doing, you bet.
 She Che hen) laid enough eggs last year to more than pay off the receipts to1 nr tn the entire expenses of the War De partment of the United States. If you'd drop all the eggs she laid in 1901 on the United States Navy, they'd sink every battleship deeper than Ceveras fleet (and they haven't touched bottom yeD and still leave some eggs floating Try this on your next trip from Escondido to Chicago, look out of the car window and i'm agine that you see a chicken along the track every four feet apart, (not counting the chicken feet) you'd think 1t strange. incredible, but the truth is, that there are enough hens and roosters in the United States to set one every four feet. (not setting hens) along every railroad track in the United States.
 There are 2S4,000,000 chickens and 191, ,000 miles of railroad in the United States, without counting the hens eggs in the incubators here at the present writing but these will about offset the new miles of track to be laid for the Imperial Railroad and Carlson's Salt Lake Line (well call these an off set,) but you can set the chickens along the track and figure it out your self
 In 1901 this bunch of birds laid 10.- 000. .000.0 eggs, that's only an aver age of thirty-eight eggs a year. The average may seem low, but remember, some chickens do not lay all the time and some do not have time to lay at all. As some people are not satis- fled with our present laws we expect their next request will be for Congress to pass law compelling an equal division of all the chickens in the United States. then every man, woman and child in this country could have B chickens and t42 eggs for each one of us. The division would be hard on the chickens and its more eggs than many have had in seven years,
 Eggs are not such heavy affairs either some will weigh two ounces and others won't weigh more than an ounce and half. still, all the eggs laid in the United States last year would weigh about 655, ,000 tons, or about four times the tonnage of the United States Navy.-Correspondent of Esconddo Advocate.