The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-20

Tencn Oe1eSaClOn 20 the armament
conference in Washington, while Am
bassador Jusserand, envoy to this
country, will be his right-hand man.
The premier viii remain in Washing
ton two weeks and then turn the lead
ership over to Jusserand.
10000
The Chinese reply TO Japan's pro-
posals concerning Shantung has been
transmitted to the japanese minister
at Picking.
10000
It has been tentatively decided by
the British cabinet to appoint six
British delegates both Canada and
australia as well as the British en-
pire as a whole.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa has in
formed President Harding that he
could not consider at the present time
acceptance of the federal judgeship
of the northern Iowa district.
10000
Charles P. McCrory of Kentucky,
has been selected as chairman of the
interstate commerce commission for
term ending December 81, 1922.
10000
Prof. Ricardo Zanella, leader of the
Fiuman party, has been elected pres
ident of the new independent state of
Fiume by the constitutional assembly.
10000
The German government is renew
ing its efforts to apprehend the lead
ers Of the Kapp revolution who since
March, 1920, have succeeded in evad-
ing arrest.
10000
Greece is sounding Great Britain
with a view to bringing about a peace.
conference with Turkish Nationalists
either in London or Constantinople.
Great Britain has maintained an atti-
tude of neutrality.
10000
Louis Grow died from wounds re-
ceived in a fight at LOrena, Texas,
when Sheriff Buchanan attempted to
stop Ku Klux Khan parade.
10000
\ Billion from blToS
Though the war taught Us all to
think in billions. more or less, when
national affairs were under consider
alton, a billion dollars still demands
attention. 1t is too big a sum to be
passed lightly by, in any field Of bust
ness. and even now not many Amer
leans would guess the value Of the
bird products of this country at more
than a billion year.
Yet that much money comes from /
the feathered denizens Of the barn /
yards and the poultry pens. The cen
sus returns show that in 1919 the eggs /
and fowls produced were vauled at .
more than a billion, and the official /
figures were probably much too low.
Farmers are not given to telling |
government agents of any kind the /
full market price Of their crops, plus
the value of the food that comes from
their land and their livestock, chick !
ems included, which is eaten in their
own dwellings. Now prices are lower
than they were two years ago, but the (
population is larger and more poultry .
is kept
1t means a prodigious number of
eggs and birds. The egg output alonei
must be equal to an egg every second /
day in the year, for every man, wo- !
man and child in the United States. |
That is to say, something like 49,
100000 items of food in the she'll
encased original packages. And the /!
hens and growing chickens must out !
number the human beings. 1t does not |
seem possible, in the big cities, but
many rural county has ten barnyard |
fowls for every human inhabitant.
There is hardly a better example /
than the poultry statistics afford of !
the way that little things count up, |
where there are plenty of them. |
The great bulk of the feathered |
wealth Of the country is still in small /
fiocks of fowls, on. millions of farms. |
The poultry industry of the United |
States is as far removed as anything
could be from monopoly or the grasp |
of big business" and yet the poultry /
business is big, very big. however
measured and tested.