DEMAND INCREASING STEADILY 

 Table III. — Exports of Eggs from U. S. 



Year 



1908 



19C9 



1910 



Europe 



North America 

 South America 



Asia 



Oceania 



Si544,995 



1,490,279 



2,692 



597 



1. 45 1 



$2,265 



1,195,446 



1,342 



135 



334 



I574 



1,256,998 



1,921 



337 

 666 



$639 



1,782,141 



3,218 



43 

 978 



$15,613 



3,375,413 



3,135 



60 



1,731 



The figures in Table III apply to eggs in the shell. There were 

 additional exports, amounting to about thirty thousand dollars 

 a year, for canned eggs, yolks, and so on. 



Distribution of Poultry. — Geographically the poultry produc- 

 tion of this country may be divided into three principal sections : 

 (i) the northeastern states, including New England and the 

 Middle Atlantic States, (2) the states bordering on the Pacific 

 coast, and (3) the states lying in the Mississippi Valley. Each 

 principal section is more or less distinctive for its kind of products. 

 In the northeastern territory the poultry industry is highly spe- 

 cialized. A great many large farms devoted to nothing but fowls 

 are found there, and their outputs are consumed in nearby mar- 

 kets in the large cities. In the Vineland, New Jersey, tract there 

 are upwards of a quarter of a million White Leghorn hens, bred 

 for high egg production. 



The Pacific territory is pretty much the same as the north- 

 eastern section, only on a smaller scale. Conditions are pretty 

 much identical, both as to methods of production and marketing. 

 The Petaluma district corresponds to the Vineland tract, and it 

 is the largest single poultry producing section in the world. 

 See Fig. i. It has close to a million White Leghorn hens. 



Mississippi Valley Poultry. — Things are very different in the 

 Mississippi Valley, which comprises the states of Minnesota, Wis- 

 consin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska, Iowa, Kan- 

 sas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and 

 Texas. In this vast territory the great bulk of our poultry is 

 produced, yet for all, there are very few farms which might be 



