| Show HENS WORKING FULL TIME fowls cowls in eight counties of missouri enough to cover tha country Jef ferbon city mo the state bu bit reau of labor and statistics his corn com plated the compilation of returns from tour four more counties showing the ship ments menta of surplus products during 1900 1905 in preparation for the bureau B s forth loraing annual report these fout counties are adair andrew dates and denson benson they contribute materially toward maintaining the glory of th missouri hen showing homing shipments of pounds of diessel poultry 5 pounds of live poultry an and d 2 dozens of eggs or a total of 0 eggs within the four counties of audrian cooper callaway and cole chich had previously been reported these figures would he be changed in this way dressed poultry 6 5 pounds live poultry pounds and a total ship ment of poultry from the eight coun colin ties of 23 OS pounds combined the eight counties shipped 6 i loens joens of eggs or a total of 83 34 1 aggs which Is something like 24 times lie he population of the irate of missouri or r 7 mot matri 0 than the population of the united states by the census of 1810 1890 and the excess over that cioll tit in itself woul boull I 1 give to each man woman and child in missouri more than eggs the missouri lien evidently Is s spreading herself besides all this poultry and eggs those these eight counties shipped 84 pounds of feathers |
