The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-06
SHE rs VALUABLE.
The Common Hen Worth More to Us
Than Our Gold Mines.

(New York Press.)
AS SambO says. ..Aiggs is aiggs. en-
when dey is aiggs dars To- hundred
ways O. cOokin' EN- en- mo- n 70 hun
dred ways o spilin' EN-"
SambO was a famous cook. but he
didn't care for eggs; his graft was
chickens-when they didn't roost too
high.
Does yo' know Whut's de berry bes'
ting 70 do wild aiggs?" asks Sambo,
end himself answers: Let 'em hatch"
The steady inroads of the artificial
incubator have had the effect of in
creasing the output of eggs in all cOun-
tries. for hens, being no longer re-
quired to waste their time in sitting,
devote themselves more assiduOusly to
laying.
In 1902 no fewer than 16. coo, 0O0. 900
eggs went to market in the United
States al an average price OF Ills
cents a dozen Formerly this country
imported enormous quantities, but
it exports FAR more than it obtains
from abroad.
The American hen is protected by
the Dingley tariff. A duty of ) cents
a dozen is imposed on foreign eggs,
enabling our hen to realize a profit
of 400 per cent annually for her own
er.
The egg product of the United states
exceeds in dollars and cents the value
of all the gold and silver mined there
in The output is worth annually over
S145, OOO, GOO
The chief egg producing state is
Iowa. which also is first in hogs. Her
yearly output is 100000 600 dozen. Ohio
comes next with 92,000,000 dozen, then
Illinois. with S7,G00,000, and Missouri,
with $4,000. 900.
Not counting Alaska and Hawaii. the
highest price for eggs is paid in Mon
tana, where the average is 20 cents
dozen, and the lowest in Texas,
where you can buy all you want for
~ cents.
The occasional price squirt in the city
of New York where 5000. 900 cases of
eggs are received annually, does not
count for the state at large. Prices
are exceptionally high just now on ac-
count Of the severe cold sany, which
extended all over the country, cutting
down the city's supply. The finest
eggs at wholesale can be had at 3S
cents at dozen; at retail about Az to
AZ cents.
There are producers of fancy eggs
who get 81 a dozen from restaurants
of New YOr6's Fauborg St. Germain.
These same farmers-milIionaire
from Wall street as a rule-selI but
ter at $1.50 pound and milk at 81
a quart.
Railroad statistics on the egg ques-
ton are enlighteHing. The annual out
put fills $4,000, 600 crates. holding thirty
dozen each. An ordinary refrigerator
car holds 400 crates \ train of these
cars sufficient to carry the annual pro-
duct would be sec miles in length or
long enough to reach from Washing
ton to Chicago and several miles be-
yond.
There are 100000 domestic poultry
-,
of them are on small farms, in fiocks
Of a dozen 20 twenty-five or thirty.
They gather their own subsistence and
receive practically 70 care which ex-
plains why eggs are so cheaply pro-
duced.
The local market just now is bur
dened with quantities of frosted and
split eggs, which are sold at a big sac
rifice- In some instances carloads have
arrived with from twelve to fifteen
dozen to the erase cracked open by
freezing. The. split eggs have to be
figured at about the price of checks"
They are used for cooking
England consumes vast quantities of
eggs. Her ivoDoTtatiOns last year were
valued at SIS, 00oe00. She buys enor
nous quantities from Italy, Germany,
France. Russia. Belgium. Denmark,
Egyps and Morocco. as well as from
the United States and Canada 81,
The smallest egg is laid. by an in
sect and cannot be seen except with "A
microscope. The largest is that of the
epyOrnis, a fossil bird of Madagascar.
It's capacity is two and one-half gal
Ions or as much as six ostrich eggs, or
twelve dozen hen eggs.
Some creatures lay only one egg in
a year; others, such as marine ami
mails. pour out millions of Oya. Those
that lay one egg usually manage to
hatch il and rear the young. Those
that lay millions are less fortunate:
less than one-tenth of per cent ever
approach maturity.
The most delicious egg is said TO be
that of the 'bob-white.
The Phoenicians. and from them the
Egyptians, HiBdoos. Japanese and
many other ancient nations, main
tanned that the world was Matched
from an egg made by the Creator.
OTpheUs speaks of this egg
Scented a Conspiracy.