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

1uulaud 10 inc uaIly CRCRIe OF the
satisfied hen. If she and her al)v,
the turkey hen, were to stop sing
ing their monotonous lay the State
OF Indiana would be from $4,000,
600 to $15,000,O00 poorer every
year, and many whole communities
IN Indiana would suffer a 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 over the
State, or that loosens the tight
screws on 80 many small bank &C
counts. All OF this may serve as a
thought.germ for the man whose
habit is to shy 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
stitutions, from penitentiarles to hos
pitals; she would educate all of the
children in Indiana by meeting the
annual public school expenses, and,
on top # that, in favorable Year,
she would meet the maintenance OF
all churches of all kinds ia Indiana
and discharge their home and foreign
mission obligations Her rroduc
ton, measured by the standard of
the dollar, in many years is more val
liable than tie whas; production of
lndiaua, and most Wears she loses
the oats yield production at the half
way mark.
ONK OF THE BEST INDUSTRIES.
Indiana talks great deal about
her Bedford stone production and
the wealth of L-r 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 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
piana last year was Sl5.OOO,000 or
that amount it is estimat cd that the
egg crop was worth $7,802,2l5. Ac
cording to the chicken census, In
diana is credited with population
of II, 100000 fowls.
State Statistician Is 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, frat, by coun-
ties, on the township basis. The ag
gregate for the State shows that the
egg market production in Indiana
last year was 47,ll0,215 dozen
Wholesale poultry dealers, who cover
the entire State, say that the aver
age price of eggs during the last
year was fraction over Is cents a
dozen. On this basis tho past twelve
months' crop is given a valuation Of
$,007, ,8Sl.2l, which is but little
short Of the Government estimate.
According to State Statistician John
sons returns there have been 37,21l,
ooo pounds OF poultry used and
marketed in Indiana during the last
year. The wholesalers state that 10
cents a pound will be fair basis to
figure that at. This places tho val
uahon OF the marketable poultry at
$3,72l, $50 and makes tmal of
$l0,730,041 rs.
HEN WORTH MORN THIN PENSIONS.
The estimates made by the whole.
sale poultry dealers on the poultry
sold in markets, as a rule, fall little
short Of State Statisticlan Johuson's
figures, but not much.
Even taking the State statistician's
estimate, the good hen, in active pro.
ductlon, dumps million dollars
more money into Indiana every year
: than the Government does in pen.
slons. The money goes, too, where,
it will do the most good. Many
homes in Indiana are run by wives
who only have the small change to
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