Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-03-04 | Page 1 | Poultry Figures

.'.'M Inn lnnl,l'""fHtntl- hl,,,, Hl'l'poiinft ,011 ," "Inm;,''"""'! looked out !7 : "'". .,"", ,our ria.',1 ih. tt,nul'' Pioh "' Ih me country aBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-L concluded to watch the trains go hy nt the same lime there would be enough to camp by the side of oxers railroad trnck In tho country nt Intennla of four feet You couldn't Inko n tinln nns-wheie nns-wheie without seilng a different hen every four feet If sou looked out of the window That Is because there nrn !S4,. fWOOOO chickens In tho country nd 191,-l)0U 191,-l)0U miles of railroad, Ich of theso chickens laid on nn nvoiagp thirty-eight eggs 11 year The nernge does not s-cm high to city people, peo-ple, but It must bo remembeied that thcie lire n Bool many chlckena too young and too old to las-, whllo some oro setting nnd others nre males That mide 10 000,000 000 eggs The exact ex-act llgures for the Department of Agriculture Agri-culture In 1900 nre 10 000 52S W. Thla clnoi not count those consumed lirfnio fcfttlng to rmrkft If pei)liily In the United btntes, under un-der a radical sjstem of communistic distribution, were In Bet hla fall lure of thlckena, ench person would get three of tho birds nnd n lions share nf a fourth Ilo would get a 72 chickens In the whole of last seir did sou eat l!S bks? That was tho figure for tho nwrngo American. The lowest figure for eggs was lfiia cents n dozen in 1100 That was the minimum market prlco for exports. Kggs are light nlfnlrs, weighing only nbout two ounces apiece. Bomn weigh ns little as an nunra and a half. Minorca Mi-norca eggs nre tho heailest, being about llo to tho pound, whllo Wsnndolla nnd Ilrnhma crrb run wim 01 eight to the pound. I'rnhnbly nil the eggs Inld In the United States last jenr weighed about ClliiOO tmiH This Is about four times the total tonnage ton-nage of the American naty, couullnB In even older ships rami, ITchl nnd rirclde.