POULTRY PRODUCTION AND POULTRY INDUSTRY 21 



Accorilin.n' to t]\c I'.I'JO cciisiis I'ciiorl llic :iAei-a,nc farm 

 iiK-onie from ])oulti'y ])ro(liicts sold in tlic Initcd States 

 was .'ifld:!.:!:; on the hasis of tlic total inmihcr of farms. (See 

 Tal)le L, Appendix.) l-'i^ures are not a\ailal)le -wliieli sfiow 

 what proportion of the averat;e total farm ineome the averap,e 

 jioultry income is, Imt it is i-easonahle to suppose it will 

 generally be greatest in those states \\hose aA-erage farm 

 income from poultry is largest, 'hhe ten states showing the 

 largest average farm incomes from ]>oultr\- ])i-o(liiets sold are 

 listed according to their incomes in Tahle 111. 



Farm Consumption of Poultry Products.— The average 

 cpiantities of home ])ro(luced meats (including eggs) consimied 

 per family by 955 farm families (average size 4.S adults or 

 ecjuivalent), in fourteen states was reported by Funk^ in 1020 

 to be as shown in Talile IV. Poultry and eggs furnish 

 39 per cent of the home i)roduced meat food. 



Table IV. — HoME-pnoDucED Meat Foods C'onsumed Ann'ually by 

 F.ARM Families (Data of 1''unk). 



Pounds. 



Pork and lard . ...... 499 



Beef _ . , - . . . .... 97 



Poultry ... ^ 226 



Eggs 156 



Total ... ........ 97S 



The Primary Poultry Product. — Eggs are the leacHng poultry 

 product. As shown in Table LI (Ai)])en(lix), the average 

 state income from poultry products sold was in 1919 Sl(),C.99,- 

 704, of which :!;2,44P),31N was credited to poultry sold, and 

 $S,25G,3SG was credited to eggs, or consideral)]y over three- 

 fourths of the total income. 



At the same time the average annual farm income from 

 eggs for all the farms in the United States was :i?9S.95, as 

 shown in Table L (Appendix), while the income fi'om ])oultry 

 sold was :j44.37, or less than half as mucli. 



1 U. S. Farnicis' liulk'tiii, N'j. 1IIS2. 



