Show MONEY IN HENS out dozens of eggs and chickens ansa a year naw now if I 1 owned all the hens in thia country sald the market nian as he counted a dozen eggs egas and put them in a customers basket and had a place to pasture them in all I 1 would ask would bo ten years in in business and id make it very warm for vanderbilt hows that asked the reporter hows that why easy how maybe you dont know young man maii that over cackles cac klea announcing the birth of the bame number of eggs kept the farmer boys busy every day last year gathering in the efforts of over hens but they did well those efforts for days re bulted in sep arate and distinct eggs or dozen as near as I 1 can calculate now it took just dozen of those eggs to supply the demand for tom and jerrys puddings hard and soft boiled eggs egg nog and ham and eggs in this country last year and eggs was eggs egg s at that I 1 figure that 30 cents a it dozen for 1883 waa about the aver average a ge price thirty ce cents ants a dozen doze n far for dozen climbs up to the comfortable little purse of theres nothing mean about me and if I 1 had the handling of those offerings of the nations hens id be satisfied with a profit crofit of two cents on a dozen what would be my little divvy well if I 1 forgotten what old daboll drummed into me I 1 make it out that when the old year died I 1 would lug home comet something bin 9 like clean and slick ahead of the game ten years of that and I 1 think I 1 could sit down with the boya and stay with as its beav heavy a jackpot as any efem of ero N what bat would become of the other fitly fifty nillion dozen asked tho the reporter there you are again replied the market man if I 1 owned all the hens theres another little item that would help me to keep from worrying about the punctuality of the rent and the infallibility ol 01 the gas meter last year must have been a good one for people visiting in the country for folks broiled fricasseed fricas seed and roasted something like chicken chickens young fudold aud old that used up the balance of dozen of eggs that dozen of eggs were turned into chickens that gobbi gobbled d up of the hard earned coin coin of this realm ciphering the thing down close at fifty cents a chicken I 1 dont deal in 1 l poultry but from the size of th the e didd diamond pins of those who do I 1 do not hesitate a minu minute tetO to say eay that there cannot be less than five cents profit crofit on every chicken they sell M old dabell comesup comes up again aad and lays it down for a nickel plated fact that if I 1 owned all the hens fiens in the country I 1 would have to make two trips home from tho the shop at the end of tho the year for here I 1 would have more to be piled in the till to be carried away and stuffed e 1 I in the stocking and 00 is plenty for one man to carry at a time 11 so you see what a nice nest egg I 1 would haye have at the end of ten years and you would hardly believe aleve that new york would chip in in about one thirtieth of the whole pot would you butske but she would last las it year it took dozen of eggs to satisfy her and she V paid id to get them now N new ew york state only keeps bens hens enough to lay about dozen and so of or course we have to go knocking about nil all over the c antry auntry and part of canada Uada to keep up with the cry nry for fr eggs it would take all the eggs that new york new jersey penn sylvalia sylva uia and massachusetts hen hern i are responsible for to supply thia this city with all the eggs she wanis wants the dozen eggs here last year if laid in a single line after the other w without it hout a hairs space between them would 1 d reach from froin boston to san francisco I 1 tell you theres a big thing waiting for some one who can get a corner on hens |