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POULTRY FARMING 



is money to be made, money which in many cases could not be 

 realized at all if it were not for this branch of farming (Fig. 5). 



The Poultry Industry in the United States. The United States 

 census bureau takes an enumeration of the poultry interests when 

 taking the regular census every ten years. A brief survey of the 

 last poultry census is interesting. The practice is to consider only 



FIG. 5. A modern farm poultry plant, where poultry raising is a profitable "side line" 



to general farming. 



fowls three months of age or over and only those kept on farms, no 

 enumeration being provided by law for cities, towns, or villages. 

 The elimination of the poultry in these other centres greatly 

 reduces the reported number kept and produced in the United 

 States. Investigations made in New Jersey show that incorporated 

 cities in the State have one adult bird within the city limits for 

 every two and one-half persons enumerated in the census. It is 

 supposed that this will run much higher in towns and villages. 



The following table shows the number and value of birds re- 

 ported by the thirteenth census, compared with the number in the 

 twelfth census. 



TABLE I. United States Poultry Census. 



The table shows that 94.7 per cent of all birds reported were 

 domestic fowls which are classified as " chickens," in distinction 



