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for fowls, and several firms making a specialty of clover cut ready for use. At least two 
establishments are doing a big business in the manufacture and sale of insecticides 
prepared especially for poultry keepers. 
Then there are other articles, not used exclusively by poultrymen, of which poultry- 
men are heavy consumers. Wire netting for fences, and prepared roofing and sheathing 
papers are of this class. There are also many articles manufactured in large quantities 
for poultrymen and dealers in poultry by firms making a variety of articles from a single 
kind or class of raw materials. In this category might be mentioned shipping coops, 
egg cases and egg baskets, of which great quantities are used, and such articles as feed 
cookers, hay cutters, caponizing instruments, etc. 
It is only within recent years that the poultry industry has grown to anything like its 
present proportions, only recently that its development has been along lines which 
developed what might be termed subsidiary industries, and only very recently that it has 
come to be recognized by well informed people generally as an industry of vast impor- 
tance. Great as the industry is today, it is hardly more than an ‘infant industry.” 
Only a small fraction of the number of people who could make poultry profitable are 
doing so, and only a few of those who are making poultry profitable are getting ‘‘all 
that’s coming to them.” Though, as has been stated (7 5), production and consumption 
practically balance each other, it is not hard to understand how this balance might be 
preserved though the production were much increased. Taking the figures of the census 
of 1890, and allowing $60,000,000 as the cost of distribution of the product marketed, it 
is found that the er cagzta expenditure of the American people for all sorts of poultry 
products : — for eggs for all purposes, for chicken and duck for all occasions, for turkeys 
for Thanksgiving, and geese for Christmas, is but $5.55 fer annum, or 48 cents per 
month, or 12 cents per week. 
