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Show t S(; O - FIFTY CENTS A DOZEN FOR EGGS. ? The grocery man sauUKtrhad eggs, yes. But he hadn'tanytlHng better tlvon forty-cent cggiy He didn't know why he couldn't get any better. And if that cipn't look like a big price for eggslin a state like Utah, there are no shells. There should be about-'forty Qents a 'dozen' profit in ' fifty-cent eggs. Of course one can manage to spend more money. But there is a good deal of independence and tendency to self support in a hen. She will board with you if you invite her. But she can come mighty near boarding herself where she has a range- to run on. She won't get very fat and by that same token she will lay more eggs for the thinness. She will get a lot of weed seeds; and that is about the only real good excuse there is for weed seeds, anyway. any-way. She will catch grasshoppers, and a mighty lot of insects that seem to be provided by nature especially for the manufacture of eggs. And she ,'may scratch in your garden for the worms that would otherwise make a mockery of .your labors. , But in the long run she will provide for most of her own table. And she will lay about two hundred eggs a year, if she has a good home, and a nest that looks right, and some sunshine in winter. There is one thing about her that should not be overlooked. over-looked. She drinks a good deal. But she has never yet been known to take anything stronger than water. And she prefers it clean and running. A mountain side with a stream running down will make an excellent range for hens, and they will never wander far from their own fireside. They like to stay as near as possible where they were hatched. And they arc perfectly willing to let you havcall but thirteen eggs. You may sec more in them than in the prospective. chickens, and insist on her laying. Many a hen has been prevented from letting, and has given grudging man about ten times her own value cvery year. The only reason the grpcer -didn't Iva.vc any mope eggs is that a lot of men and women in the good State of Utah .aticjnot consulting their hens as much as they might. And we doubt 'fcy arc getting any better return otHany money than they -could get that way. Inter-Mountain Republi- can. |
