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of turkeys, ducks, and geese decreased in every division, 

 except that there were increases of turkeys and geese in 

 the Mountain division and a slight increase in ducks in 

 the Middle Atlantic division. 



Ten Leading Poultry States. Of the ten states leading 

 in total value of poultry on farms, Iowa has the larg- 

 est total value of poultry, amounting to $12,269,881, and 

 Missouri ranks second, with $11,870,972. The eight 

 states next in order are Illinois, $11,696,650; Ohio, 

 $9,532,672; New York, $7,879,388; Indiana, $7,762,015; Penn- 

 sylvania, $7,674,387; Kansas, $7,377,469; Michigan, $5,- 

 610,958; and Texas, $4,807,642. In these ten states to- 

 gether the value of poultry is about $86,482,000, or 55.9% 

 of the total value of poultry in continental United 

 States. 



DISTRIBUTION OF FOWLS IN THE UNITED 

 STATES 



The accompanying table from the 1910 census shows 

 the per cent, distribution of all fowls in the United 

 States in 1910 and 1900. It will be seen that the 

 greater number of fowls is raised in the East North 

 Central and the West North Central divisions of the 

 United States, for of the total number cf fowls in con- 

 tinental United States in 1910, considerabl} 7 over one- 

 half, or 54.3%, were in the two North Central divisions. 

 About one-fifth, or 19.8%, were in the two South Central 

 divisions; somewhat over one-tenth, or 11.2%, in the 

 New England and Middle Atlantic divisions; somewhat 

 less than one-tenth, or 9.4%, in the South Atlantic di- 

 vision; and 5.4% in the two Western divisions the 

 Mountain and Pacific. 



The distribution of chickens among the several geo- 

 graphic divisions naturally corresponds very closely 

 to the distribution of the total number of fowls, since 

 chickens constitute much the greater proportion of all 

 fowls. In the case of the other classes of fowls, the 

 two North Central divisions have a somewhat smaller 

 proportion of the total for the country than in the case 



