The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-04-22
HENS WORTH MORE
THAN GOLD MINES

A. sambo says "Aiggu Is aigga. en-
when dcy s nlErs dara fo' hundred
ways % c1okln 'cm on mo- m TO hundred
ways o. spllin EN-"
samho was a famous cook. but he didn't
care tor egRsi hia graft was chickens
when they didn't roOat too high
Docs 20 know whuta de berry hes.
ting % DO wild niggHl' asks hambo, ana
himHclf nnfwcrat Lot cm hatch"
The steady lurolds Of tho artificial In
ouhitor have had tho efoct Of increasing
the output OF eggs in on countries. for
hens, being no longer required 10 waste
moro asalduougly 90 laying
IN 1902 no Tower than i00O0O00 eEEs
went 90 market On the United states Al
an average price OF ii.i5 cents Q dozen
nous quantities hut now ID exports Tar
more than u obtains from abroad.
The American hen Ia protected by the
pingley tarin. a duty Of cents doron
"a Imposed ON foreign eggs, enabling our
hen 10 realize n profit Of 100 per cent an
nually for hof owner.
The err product OF tho United States
exceeds IN dollars ana centa the value Of
an the gold and silver mined therein The
output w worth annually over $4,000, 900.
The chief cgR producing state q Iowa.
which also ia nrat m hogs. Her yearly
output ~ ioo.O00OO dozen. Ohio comes
next with n2OOOOO dozen, then Illinois,
with bIOoO,OO0 and Missouri with Sc.
| OO00OO
MOI COUNTING AlnNhA ana Hawaii Aho
/ tana. where the average 4 20 cents a
/ dozen, and the lowest In Texas, whore
you can buy ail you want NJ ~ cents.
/ Of New York where 100000 cases of
/ oEgs are received annually, does not
/ count for the state at large. Prices arc
/ exceptionally high Just now on account Of
/ tho severe cold anip. which extended All
/ over the country. cutting down tho city's
| supply Tho finest eggs al Wholesale can
~ 20 AZ cents.
There arc producers Of fancy eggs who
| Got ~ dozen from Restaurants OF New
| 1orks Fnubnurg g. German. Tho same
q rulc-uoll butter NJ $3.50 pound and
mill al 81 quart
Railroad ftatlstlcs on the era question
IRE onllghtoiing. The annual output nlu
i10op,OQO crates holding thirty dozen
each. An ordinary rtfIigcrator car hold,
900 crates. A train Of these cars sum
Client 10 carry tho annual product would
reach from Washington 10 Chicago and
several mlles beyond.
Th,ro arc 2liO0o.oOo domestic poultry n
ne United states a vast majority o.
dozen TO twtnty-hvc or thirty, They gath
er their own Hutnigtcrcc aad receive prac
iically no care which explains why egg
are 90 choaply produced.
The local market just now n burdenol
with quantities Of frosted and split tRga
which are told az a big sacrifice In s0mi
instances carloads have arrived with from
twelve TO nftcon dozen 20 the case crnckei
open by freezing The split eggs have q
be ngpred At about thu price OF "checka.
They ore used for cooling.
England consumes vast quantities o
eggs. Her impcrtauong last year wur
valued NJ f2s.OO0OOO, The buys cnormou
. our titles rom Italy, Oci many Francs
Russia, Balglum, Denmark, Egypt AM
Morocco, as ven "a from the unite
States ana Cnnndn.
The smallest egg ~ laid by an inseo
, ana cannot be seen except with micro
scope q no lorgeat IA that % the cpyornil
a foaril bird Of Madagascar. Its cnpuclt
q two and half gallons. or AZ much a
/ fix ettrieh eggs, or twelve dozen he
some creatures lay only one eEE in
year. others, such as u'f rlno animal
! pour cut millions OF ovn. Thone that In
one efg usually manage 10 hatch u M
y rear the young. Those that lay million
J, arc lees fortunate. less than one-tonth
. por cent over approach maturity.
Tho most delicious egg "a said 10 bo TN
Of tho "bon-whltc"
Tho Phocr iciaus. and ficm them q
Egy1 tlana, llindOOH. Japahtfc, and man
1 other ancient nations, maintained thu
i tho world WIS Matched from an cgE mac
I BY the Creator. OrphcUn freals or tn
fgg New York Prctn.