160 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
TABLE 25. 
Distribution of poultry in the United States.. 










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>| Chickens, 
SECTION. 4 0o| including | Turkeys. Geese. Ducks. 
4.4 | Guinea fowl. 
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United States, -  - = - |88.8)233,598,035/6,599, 367/5 ,676, 863/4 , 807,355 
North Atlantic States, - 89.4] 27,952,114; 529,932] 144,527} 453,580 
South Atlantic States, - |88.3] 22,293,912| 810,975) 908,908} 458,918. 
North Central States, - |9I.7|123,469 ,068/3 ,072,456|1 , 899, 026|2,416, 327 
_ South Central States, - [86.9] 50,299, 631/|1,876, 382/2, 589, 164|1, 257,048 
Western States, - -' 175.8] .94551,296). 304,950) 135,163) 199,977 
Alaska and Hawaii, - = 142.5 32,064 4,672 75 21,508 



From this it appears that in the North Central States there 
is the largest number of farms on which poultry is raised and 
also that more birds of each kind, except geese, are produced 
in this section than in any other; that it is, in fact, the leading 
poultry section. The North Atlantic States come next in per- 
centage of farms raising poultry, but the South Central States 
produce greater numbers of birds of all four kinds, and the 
South Atlantic States greater numbers of all kinds save chick- 
ens. This would seem to indicate that while more of the North , 
Atlantic farmers kept poultry, the Southern farmers kept larger 
flocks, especially of geese, turkeys and ducks. The birds re- 
quire a little more care in the colder regions, and feed and 
labor may be a little more expensive, but perhaps no more so 
in New England than in Iowa, which is the banner state in the 
poultry industry. Nor are other agricultural industries so 
much more productive in the Northeast as to drive out the 
poultry business. Under present conditions it may perhaps be 
impossible for the Eastern States to compete with the Western 
in the production of the staple grains; the climate of New Eng- 
land may prevent the section as a whole from equalling the 
Southern States, or possibly even New York and New Jersey, 
in growing fruit and many garden vegetables; but poultry- 
raising is one of the branches of agriculture exceptionally well 
adapted to its climate and the character of its land. The reason 
why it has not been more extensively developed in this section 
is doubtless that the farmers have not realized the profit which 
can be made from large flocks of well cared for poultry. 

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