POULTRY CULTURE, 

 SANITATION, AND HYGIENE 



CHAPTER I 

 INTRODUCTORY 



The 1910 census of the United States reports for North 

 Carohna a total egg production in 1909 of 23,556,124 dozen, or 

 an increase of 33.1 per cent, in ten years. These eggs were 

 valued at $4,256,769, or an increase valuation of 67.2 per cent, 

 over 1899 or ten years previous. This ratio has practically 

 been kept up throughout all the states. 



That this estimate is far too low is shown by the fact that 

 the total number of fowls on 223,808 North Carohna farms on 

 April 15, 1910, was 5,054,000 leaving 25,990 farms not report- 

 ing any poultry raised in that year. 



This report does not include poultry in cities, towns, or 

 villages, which would greatly swell the amounts. It does not 

 go into sufficient details in that it does not give the number 

 which were chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, and other 

 birds. 



Some means should be devised whereby fairly accurate data 

 could be obtained of the entire poultry population, its prod- 

 ucts, its value, as well as the consumption and exports and 

 imports of each state and their values. 



The 1911 report of the United States Secretary of Agri- 

 culture places the national annual income from poultry prod- 

 ucts at $750,000,000. 



The state ranking first in poultry products on the farm is 

 Rhode Island, where the average farm income from poultry 

 is $267.70. 



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