842 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



POULTRY AND EGGS. 



There were produced 1,534,860 dozens of poultry and 61,572.937 dozens 

 of eggs the past year. Estimating the poultry at five dollars a dozen 

 we have $7,698,617 as the value of the poultry alone. If we place the 

 price of eggs at 12i cents a dozen, we have $7,673,300. or both combined. 

 $15,371,917 as the value of the poultry products of the State for one year. 



A ten-year comparative table of the poultry products of the State 

 follows: 



Poultry, Eggs, 



Year. Dozen. Dozen. 



1896 952,877 30,860,797 



1897 1,012,142 31,172,618 



1898 1,455,181 34,992,097 



1899 '. 1,241,702 39,0(39,760 



1900 1,345,286 38.987,348 



1901 1,436,131 46.363,259 



1902 1,114,807 47,203,311 



1903 1,071,630 49,582.129 



1904 1,148,957 51,034,086 



1905 1,534,860 61.572,937 



The counties leading in poultry the past year are: 



Ripley 50,683 dozen 



Randolph 48,650 dozen 



Decatur 43,386 dozen 



Hendricks 41.232 dozen 



Lawrence 37,243 dozen 



Boone 36,856 dozen 



Marion 36,683 dozen 



Hancock 36,353 dozen 



Putnam 34,668 dozen 



Shelby 30.820 dozen 



Those in the production of eggs the past year are: 



Noble 1.398,036 dozen 



Morgan 1.029,097 dozen 



Allen 1.006.768 dozen 



Ripley 1.000.841 dozen 



Jay 946,532 dozen 



Kosciusko 866,761 dozen 



Laporte 843.224 dozen 



Putnam 826,551 dozen 



Dekalb 815.415 dozen 



Tippecanoe 803,130 dozen 



