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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
the live and dressed poultry at one-half of this amount, which 
would give us over twelve millions of dollars as the receipts of 
poultry and eggs for the city of New York alone. 
A recent issue of the Chicago Times has an interesting col¬ 
lection of facts in relation to this important subject, from which 
we quote: 
“ In Paris, daring the year 1853, it was estimated that 175,000,000 eggs 
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were consumed, being 175 to each person, while the people in the provinces 
ate 350 eggs per head, during the same time.” 
A list of fifty-seven dealers in South Water and Kinzie 
streets is then given, with the actual number of eggs received 
by them during the year ending July 81, 1871, amounting 
in the aggregate to 4,662,500 dozen; to which the estimated 
receipts of all the other dealers—4,000,000 dozen—is added, 
making a very safe estimate of 8,662,500 dozen as the receipts 
of Chicago alone for twelve months. 
The Hon. J. Stanton Could, professor of agriculture at Cor¬ 
nell University, in an address before the New York State Poul¬ 
try Society, February 7, 1872, says: 
“We shall not go far wrong if we assume that the total value of eggs 
and chickens annually produced in this state (New York) is at least 
$4,000,000. But this does not supply one : lialf the consumption of New 
York city alone, which consumes $8,750,000 worth of eggs annually; the re¬ 
mainder being supplied from the western states. It is also estimated that 
the value of the poultry kept in the United States is $20,000,000; and that 
the value of eggs and chickens annually produced, and consumed in the 
United States, amounts to $100,000,000, or five times the capital invested.” 
Large as these figures are, and wonderful as they may ap¬ 
pear to us, they are doubtless below rather than above the ac¬ 
tual amount. 
Judging from what we see, in whatever direction we may 
go, a large portion of this enormous amount of human food is 
produced under adverse circumstances; Not one farmer in 
ten, on the average, having suitable accomodations for his poul¬ 
try. Horses, cattle, sheep and hogs have comfortable and 
clean quarters, but poultry—when properly cared for, the most 
profitable of them all, for the amount of capital invested—are 
allowed to shirk for themselves, and in reality are considered 
