Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-23

fiscal year from June, 1886, to June,
1887, show we imported 1896, 054
dozen, value IA cents-$l, $50, 1876. We
export about $62, 900 in value, to-wit.s
Import 13,6SG05i dozen, invoice value 81, 9U,5J6
Exports, domestic, 37s, 7o2 dozen, Sc 6S6
Re-exports 1l,y56, s1,Ts7 CAB
Balance ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ,S9IeS3
These eggs came mainly from Cana
da, and Belgium partly, about S22, 600.
We are largely an agricultural people.
Fowls are peculiarly an agricultural
product, yet we import an increasing
number of eggs annually to eat. Cana
da mainly, and Belgium partly, supply
these eggs. Subjects of Britain and
Belgium feeding the sovereigns of
America. This would seem great re-
Election upon the duug-hill fowl of
1t is a reflection rather upon the poultry
culture than the fowl of the country.
The dung-hill has done well under the
circumstances. He has literally had
to ''go alone" He has roasted in trees
in weather fair and foul. He has
picked up" his living as best he could,
about the dung-heaps. Without much
care of himself or consideration for his
product, he has rivaled and outstripped
every other fostered and carefully
nurtured industry of the country. Mo-!
Nobly done, old fowl of the dung-heap!
We, however, should not only make
home supply, but export largely of our
poultry product. To do this we need
improved breeds, fowls bred to high
product of meat and eggs. We need
transportation facilities to carry speed
lily our country product to city markets.
We need education or information as
to points of economy and thrift
in fowl culture. Above all, we
need to be taught the Importance
of this product; the profit it
yields when intelligently pursued,
and the merits of different breeds of
fowls. In word, we need to be taught
the value of poultry to the country;
the profit of intelligent culture, and
how to get the greatest output with
least outlay.
There is no danger of over-produc-
ton so long as we import eggs to eat.
Home demand steadily increases. In
1880 we had 100000 population; in
1890 we will have 1000 900, the great
er proportion of increase being non
producers, needing to be fed by the
farmer. viii poultry pay?
Mr.. Felch, in his book, Poultry
Culture" says: "Mr Mansfield, in
1861, with 100 hens Gree range), 90
bushels corn or equivalent, no chicks
raised, produced 147 eggs per hen,
yielding net profit per hen of ST.. 35,
and manure rs cents, profit SLIGO. 9th
err similar experiments in Massachu.
sets yielded $500, 1926, and $2.50 pei
annum. Mr.. Whitman, in 1873, with
81 Leghorn hens, laying an average Of
207 eggs per hen, and sold at 81 cents
per dozen, made net profit of $40
per hen per annum."
Mr. Felch also states, and gives the
figures to show it true, that Light
Brahmas and Boston market, ant
product of eggs and chickens com
bined he can make S. per hen pei
annum. Rev. j. 7. Hoyt, of Bedford
N. Y, states that in 1885 he bough
twenty-five hens at Is cents-$18.75-
and sold the coming year 3,040 egg
for $63S0; sold 200 chickens fo
$l12.50, and had fifty left valued a
$50; expenses 1925, and net profit TO
year 500. His coops were small, ant
had northern exposure, and in winte
were often filled with snow.
Dr. Il. B. Spalding, in his work
STANDARD and Commercial Poultry
Culture by Artificial Process" say
"that actual and varied experiment
prove that chicken can be raiset
from shell to maturity-say six
months-for maximum costs cent
per pound, the chick will gain on av
erage of one-fourth of a pound eacl
, week for the first twelve weeks. Ate
that the gain is not SO rapid II
therefore concludes the greatest prof
D is in sales at four to twelve weeks
, The expense, risk and trouble nue.
less. Hon. Howell Cobb, in Souther
Cultivator.