AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



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Poultry, 1910 and 1900.— The following table gives the numbers of the 

 various kinds of poultry reported in 1910 1 and 1900, together with their 

 value, and the number of farms reporting each kind in 1910: 



Kind 



1910 

 (April 1C) 



,0.2 



z 



1900 

 (Juno 1) 



ail 

 z 



Total.- 



Chickens 



Turkeys 



Ducks 



Geese 



Guinea fowls 



Pigeons 



All othert 



23,4*2,880 



22,961,641 



124,164 



225,284 



215,196 



38,448 



187,994 



153 



$12,269,881 



11,632,064 



251,449 



120,101 



217,673 



13,942 



34,155 



497 



20,043,343 



18,907,673 



424,306 



487,752 



223,612 



* 



t 



t 



♦Included with chickens. 

 tNot reported. 



tThirty-one farms report 99 peafowls, valued at $286; 5 farms report 29 pheasants, 

 valued at $136; and 1 farm reports 25 wild geese, valued at $75. 

 §Less than one-tenth of one per cent. 



The value of the fowls on Iowa farms increased in the 10 years, 1900 

 to 1910, from $6,535,000 to $12,270,000, or 87.7 per cent, while the corre- 

 sponding increase in the number of fowls was only 17.2 per cent. The 

 number of farms reporting poultry decreased from 214,832 to 204,635, 

 while the average number of fowls per farm reporting increased from 93 

 to 115. The value of poultry and the number of farms reporting were 

 obtained in 1900 for the total of all fowls only, and not for each kind, as 

 in 1910. 



Bees, 1910 and 1900. — The number of farms reporting bees has decreased 

 from 28,977 in 1900 to 28,935 in 1910', or 0.1 per cent. The number of 

 colonies of bees increased from 138,811 to 160,025, or 15.3 per cent, and 

 their value increased from $443,923 to $517,329, or 16.5 per cent. The aver- 

 age value of bees per farm reporting was $15.32 in 1900 and $17.88 in 

 1910. More than one farm out of every eight reports bees. 



