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country only increased 23 per cent, the value more 

 than doubled, the exact amount of gain in dollars 

 being $162,448,419, or 112.6 per cent. 



The total number of farms included in this 1909 

 report numbers 5,655,754, or 88.9 per cent of all 

 the farms in the United States, and the number of 

 such fowls was 488,468,354, or an average of 86.4 

 fowls a farm. The total value of fowls produced 

 in 1909 in the entire country was $202,506,272, and 

 the total value given in 1899 amounted to $136,- 

 830,152. This shows an increase in the ten years 

 f $65,500,000, or 48 per cent. 



