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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 

 POULTRY 



Off. Doc. 



The following table gives the nniiibers of the various kinds of 

 poultry rei)oi-te(l iu 1910 and 11)00, together with their value, and 

 the number of farms re])orting each kind iu 1910: 



Total, - 



Chickens, ... 



Turkeys, 



Ducks, 



Geese, .- 



Guinea fowls. 



Pigeons, 



All others,* . 



12,728,341 



11,895,903 

 136,942 

 163,777 

 46,318 

 111,715 

 373,304 

 382 



*Sixty-two farms report 158 peafowls, valued at $504; 6 

 $630; aud 2 farms report 3 wild geese valued at $15. 



(1) Included with chickens. 



(2) Not reported. 



(4) Less than one-tenth of one per cent. 



The 



during 



increase In the number of fowls on Pennsylvania farms 

 the last decade amounts to 15.2 per cent, while the value 

 increased from $4,483,000 to |7,G74,000, or *71.2 per cent. The num- 

 ber of farms reporting poultry decreased 2.2 per cent. ; thus the 

 average number of fowls per farm reporting increased from 53 to 

 62. The increase in the number of chickens, which are by far the 

 most important class of fowls in the State, was sufficient to offset 

 a decrease in the number of turkeys, ducks and geese. The value 

 of poultry and number of farms reporting were obtained in 1900 

 tor the total of all fowls only, and not for each kind, as in 1910. 



BEES 



The number of farms reporting bees decreased from 28,962 in 1900 

 to 22,297 in 1910, or 23 per cent. The number of colonies of bees 

 decreased from 161,670 to 124,815, or 22.8 per cent., and their value 

 decreased from |531,578 to |478,179, or 10. per cent. The average 

 value of bees per farm reporting was |18.35 in 1900 and |21.45 in 

 1910. About ten farms in every one hundred report bees. 



GRAINS AND OTHER CROPS 



Potatoes were reported by 88 out of every 100 farms in 1909, 

 hay and foi'age by 87, corn by 78, oats by 68, wheat by 53, buck- 

 wheat by 28, rye by 24 and tobacco by 5. Buckwheat and tobacco' 

 show larger peicentages of farms reporting than in 1899, while for 

 potatoes, hay and forage, corn, oats, wheat and rye the percentages 



