| Show the great Atner american ican hen flen I 1 ilni jilt it I 1 while we are coloring our easter eggs may we not try to estimate how large a revenue uncle sams easter bird the hen brings him a year if uncle sam would decide to color all the eggs laid by his hens hena in one day for easter gifts to his children it would require all township county state and national officers in the united states to work industriously for 2 20 0 hours and then they would have to have the holp of the whole united states army to get through the hens of the farm now average eggs per day rhe hens of uncle sam are valued at 70 million of dollars and the tha value of the income from their industrious work nork is valued at more than 2810 million of dollars this beats all the trusts mines manufacturing combinations and even een the most successful wall speculations it gives a profit of per cent and since the exact total value of tier her products is it leaves over one million dollars for uncle sam to givechi give his wife for enster easter pin pill money Statis titio ns have found out that only once since t there ere iris his been an uncle sam have our hens failed to give him a greater revenue than his mines in 1900 the american mines beat the american lien hen ayd by 9 12 1 2 millions of dollars eggs equal 57 per cent of the income from meat exports all the ho hogs sheep and cattle exported do not come v N athin thousand tons of the weight of the eggs laid by the ever working Nor king hen ben fol foi a few years iowa ioa a hens lens produced the most moat eggs the most chickens ohio gets more money for her eggs than any other state nevada has fewer hens than any other state yet she gets the highest price for her eggs avelt aging 20 8 cents per dozen texas eggs bring the lowest price on the market marketa 7 7 cents per dozen a little less than a penny apiece let us salute this queen of the nest thit this easter morn for she is a cackling gold mine to every farm a inner of dollars that ouan outweighs eigas and out values almost any other farm product prodoc A since degrees of latitude and longitude do not circumscribe the sphere ephe re in which she works she is with the van vanguard goard of civilization and her cackle cackle cac cackle kleis is beardon heard on every enery farm from alaska to porto rico the hen en is I 1 the easter bird of the NN estern ft A orld I 1 |
