Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — HEN HAD OTHER INTERESTS. [ARTICLE]

HEN HAD OTHER INTERESTS.

Countryman Explains Why His Prices Varied from Week to Week. As the woman in the suburbs objected upon economical principles to paying more for eggs than she had paid a week before, she held a joint debate on the subject with the man from the country who supplies her. There was just the suggestion of an edge on her tone as she respectfully asked him why eggs should be cheaper the latter part of April than the early part of May, says the Detroit Freee Press. “Hens is hens,” he replied, and it sounded as if he was talking by rote. “You can’t tell nothin’ ’bout them; nothin’ ’tall. I hain’t sayin’ anythin’ fur or ag’inst the female sect, explainin’ which I will say that I’m livin’ with my third wife an<J I wouldn’t make no afferdavid now that any one of ’em was alike. Par’s I been able ter cackerlate, every woman’s a vari’ty jtst in herself. An’ hens, so fur as I been able fur to observe, is all members of the same sect, but dif’rent. Now I got a hen what don’t seem to have no object but fur to fight the cat. All the layin’ she does is a layin’ fur him, an’ when he gits in sight there’s the doggondest row ever you see. There’s another hen in the lot is alius lookin’ fur ” “But what’s all this got to do with he price of eggs? I don’t want the ilstory of your hennery. I’ll pay you

what I paid last week, and not a cent more.” “But I’m tryin’ to explain. If a hen is fightin’ cats, understan’, or detectin’ chicken hawks, or ’lowin’ any outside issue fur to occerpy her mind, she’s not layin’ eggs. That’s plain ’nough. She’s not layin’ eggs. That’s -where the immuter’bie law of supply au’ deman’ comes in. Ask your man about it, he’ll understan’. Fur instlnx, if thirty hens outen a hundred is not occupied by business, they is less eggs ’an if they was all producin’. Them as eats eggs “For goodness sake! Give me six dozen.”