VALUE OF POULTRY. 



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the following abstract from the returns made 

 by the census of 1840, exhibiting the total 

 value of all the poultry in the various states 

 and territories of the Union. 



States . 



Kentucky 

 Tennessee 

 Louisiana 

 Mississippi 

 Alabama . 

 Missouri . 

 Indiana . 

 Illinois 

 Michigan . 

 Arkansas . 

 Florida (incomplete) 

 Wisconsin . . . 



Iowa 



District of Columbia 



Value in Dollars. 



$536,439 

 581,531 

 273,314 

 369,481 

 829,220 

 230,283 

 393,228 

 330,968 

 82,730 

 93,549 

 61,007 

 16,167 

 17,101 

 3,092 



Total . . . $12,176,170 



In the outset of our calculations of profits, 

 we are met with this difficulty, that much of 

 the advantage must depend upon the vicini- 

 ty or readiness of access to a market. Per- 

 haps the fairest estimate would be made by 

 considering the produce of a poultry-yard 

 as dedicated entirely to the consumption of 

 the family, and establishing its value at some 

 fixed rate, even although that should be con- 

 siderably under the nominal market value. 



It is very well known that every article of 

 food has now (1843) reached its lowest point 



