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richer profits in the business. The great bulk of poultry and 

 eggs in the United States is produced in the central part 

 (Fig. 176) . The ten leading States, based on the value of the 

 poultry raised therein, are as follows : Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, 

 Ohio, New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Michigan 

 and Texas. These ten states raise within their borders 

 nearly 60 per cent of all the poultry in the United States. 



Fig. 176. — Map of the United States showing the distribution and location of the 

 leading poultry producing centers. 



LEADING CENTERS OF POULTRY PRODUCTION 



We have in the United States a niunber of interesting and 

 important centers; interesting, because they have made a 

 specialty of some poultry product of fine quality, and these 

 products have made the places famous. These points of 

 special production can be divided into two classes: First, 

 those devoted to egg production; second, those devoted to 

 meat production. 



Eggs. — The ten states previously mentioned constitute 

 the greatest egg producing section in the world. In these 

 central states eggs are produced by small flocks on farms. 

 The birds are often considered merely as a side issue, and are 



