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Amendment about a hundred and twenty million 

 were utilized in clarifying wine. 



Eggs are not so abundant in Great Britain as 

 they are in America. There, as with her poultry, 

 the home-grown supply has never been sufficient 

 to meet the demand. Until the beginning of the 

 World War, England was forced to depend largely 

 upon the European markets. So large was the 

 number of eggs imported that they came to about 

 fifty-five for each person in England and Scotland. 

 Eussia was the chief beneficiary of the trade, 

 with an annual export surplus valued at more 

 than $15,000,000. Denmark exported about half 

 that much. The United States did not figure, 

 except in a small way, until 1915, when she 

 took the place of the belligerent European coun- 

 tries. 



What the domestication of the red jungle fowl 

 has meant to mankind cannot be indicated in 

 actual figures. The fowl has supplied food to 

 countless millions of people through a hundred 

 generations. It has brought a money income 

 and livelihood to untold numbers and has made 

 possible the survival of hundreds of thousands of 

 small farms. Without it the world would have 

 missed a factor of tremendous importance in the 

 advancement of civilization. To-day the com- 

 bined annual poultry products of the world prob- 

 ably exceed the great American war debt in value. 

 They have been estimated at $25,000,000,000. 



