8 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 
Fic. 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. 
Taste I.—United States Poultry Census. 
All fowls. Chickens. Turkeys. Ducks. Geese. 
1910—Number..... 295,880,190 280,345,133 | 3,688,708 | 2,906,525 | 4,431,980 
Wales css see se $154,663,220 $140,205,607 | $6,605,818 | $1,567,164 | $3,194,507 
Average value.. .. $0.52 $0.50 » $1.79 $0.54 $0.72 
Farms reporting. . 5,585,032 5,578,525, 871,123 503,704 662,324 
Per cent of all 
fakmse4: 45 4: 87.8 S77 13.7 7.9 10.4 
1900—Number.......| 250,624,038 233,566,021 | 6,594,695 | 4,785,850 | 5,676,788 
The table shows that 94.7 per cent of all birds reported were 
domestic fowls which are classified as “ chickens,” in distinction 
