Show I s IS J The Ran Ren Worth More to Us S Than Our Gold Mines New ress As Sambo says las is en when doy Is dais io 10 hundred wa ways YS O 0 n om em en mo n fo o hun bun hundred bundred dred wa woys 0 em I Sambo was a 8 famous cook but he care for Dr eggs his graft gran was the they roost too high Does yo know de b bory ry boa bes besting boating ting to do d and himself answers Let em hatch The stead steady Inroads or of the artifiCial incubator tor haye had the effect of in increasing creasing thao the output of eggS In all U coun countries countries tries for hens he s 1 n longer re requIred required to waste their Ume in sitting devote themselves more assiduously to laying In 1902 no fewer than eggs went to market in the United States at an average price of 1115 cents n a dozen Formerly this country Imported enormous quantities but It exports far more than It obtains from abroad The American hen ben is protected by br bythe I the Dingley tariff A dUty of 5 cents a dozen Is Imposed on foreign eggs enabling our hen to realize a ot of per cent annually for her own owner er el erThe elThe The egg product ot of the United States exceeds In dollars and cents the value alue of all the gold and silver mined there therein in The output is worth annually over ove 14 egg pro state is Iowa which also in first In hogs Her yearly early output is dOzen Ohio conies comes next with doz dozen n then Illinois with and MIssouri wIth Not counting Alaska a and Hawaii the highest e for eggs is paid in Mon Montana Montana tana where the average Is 20 cents n a dozen and the lowest In Texas where you can buy all you want for 7 11 cents The occasional price spurt In the city of New York where cases or of eggs are does not count for the state at Prices are exceptionally hIgh just now on ac account account count of the severe cold sany which extended aU all over the country cutting the supply The finest I eggs at wholesale can be had at 38 cents at dozen at retail about 4 45 to 4 47 cents There are ers of fanoy eggs who get 1 a dOzen from restaurants of New Yorks Fauborg St Germain These same from Walt TaU street as n a but butter butter ter at a pound and mIlk at I In 1 n a quart Railroad statistics on the egg ques question question tion are enlightening The ann annual al out output output put fills orates holding thI thirty y dozen each An ordinary refrigerator car holds crates A train or of these cars cais sufficient to carr carry th pro product product duct would be 66 miles In length pr long enough to reach from Washing Washington ton to Chicago and several miles be beyond yond ond There THore are domestic poultry In the United States A vast majority of them are on small farms in flocks of n a dozen to or thirty They gather sub subsistence and receive practically no care which ex wh why eggs are so cheaply pro produced produced The local market just now Is bur with quantities ot of and split eggs which are sold at a big sac sacrifice In some Instances cn carloads loads have haye arrived with front from twelve to fifteen dozen to the erase cra cracked k d open by freezing eggs have to be at price of checks The They are used for lor cooking England consumes vast ast quantities of eg eggs Her last y ar were valued at She buys bUs inous from froni Italy Germany Gennan France a and Morocco as well as from from the States and Canada The Tue smallest t bg r Ht I laid by an In Int Insect sect t and cannot b be seen except with a microscope The Tue largest argest is that of the a fossil bird of Madagascar Its is two ho and gal gallone I lone or as much as as six ostrich eggs or I twelve dozen hen eggs Some creatures lay only one gg In Inn ina n a year others tsu sueh Jh as marine anI anImals mats mals of ova Those that lay one egg usually manage to hatch It and rear the oung Those that lay a millIons are leSs fortunate lens leas than ot of Lp 1 ever approach maturity The Tha most delicious eg egg is said aId to be of the b bObwhite The and from Egyptians Japanese and many other anI ancient t main tamed that th the world was hatched from an egg made by th Gi Creator ator Or spooks sp r this et egg |