the number of fowls In the United States is about 383.000,000; 

 these produce 1.141,000,000 dozen eggs each year, and the value 

 of both amounts to $313.000,00'3.00. There are in this State 

 15,371,000 fovvis of all soits; turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens, 

 valued at $S, 236, 000 and these produce 6S.S1S.000 dozen of eggs 

 each year worth, at 20 cents per dozen, $13,763,600, making a 

 total value for poultry of about $22,000,000"— Pearson. 



The loss to poultry, both old and young, through dis 

 ease is considerable. Dr. Pearson observes that, at a 

 very conservative estimate, one-tenth of the jwultry 

 of this Commonwealth is, each year, carried away by 

 disease. However, as the various diseases, with best 

 remedies for the same, of domestic fowls, are carefully 

 discussed in Part I of this document, I deem it unnec 

 essary to make further reference to diseases which ari 

 such a hindrance to success in poultry-raising, and 

 which, sometimes, destroy, if not promptly and intelli 

 gently treated, the entire population of the poultry 

 yard. 



LOSS IN PENNSYLVANIA FROM PREDATORY ANIMALS. 



When I prepared the preliminary report (Part II., 

 Bulletin No. 17, Dept. of Agriculture, issued in Nov., 

 1896), entitled "Some Furred and Feathered Enemieh 

 of Domestic Fowls," I was unable, because of insufii- 

 cient data, (which, with a number of books and valu 

 ;il)le papers belonjring to the Commissioner of Forestry 

 and myself, had been carelessly thrown away by some 

 workmen who were making alterations about a closet 

 where our property was stored), to give even an ap- 

 proximately correct estimate of the loss to poultry an- 

 nually incurred through the depredations of predatory 

 animals. To give an accurate estimate of the mone> 

 lost through depredations of wild animals to the poul 

 try interest would, of course, be impossible, as probably 

 f(nv iiidividu.-ils in our State, who are the possessors 



