The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-02-01
POULTRY IN THIS COUNTY
The Missouri Hen is Coming to the
Front as Producer of Wealth.
PLAIN FACTS ABOUT POULTRY.

The poultry business in this
part of the state has developed
into wonderful proportion and If
Missouri mule does not look to it's
laurels it will be excelled in the
near future by the Missouri hen.
1t is not generally known that
this state now leads all Others in
the value of poultry product. The
Missouri hen has been recognized
for some years a. a potent factor
in the commerce of the state, but
not so great as at the present time.
And it used to be thought that
Rhode Island was the turkey state,
but now Missouri is in the lead of
that little state and every other
state. There are one or two firms
in this county whose poultry
business alone amounts to many
thousand dollars year.
The reason that the Missouri
hen iscounted so big at the present
time is that the prices are so'high
and there are SO many more
people in the poultry business
than ever before; and, best of all,
there is room for countless thous-
ands of poultry raisers in this and
adjoining towns cheap farms
especially adapted to poultry
raising. This will perhaps ''sound
good" to the many people who
are now living in the city, who
have the poultry fever and are
"trying" to get on a little farm
and raise chickens and turkeys,
b utter and eggs and be indepen-
dent. Here are a few figures of
three parties in this section who
have kept account of their pro-
duct, and as they are not prize
winners these figures will the more
accurately represent what can be
done without szaggeration. They
are not poultry experts especially,
if they were the figures would
perhaps be a great deal larger.
4 Henyy Walter, who lives near
Amel lcus, on an eighty acre farm,
reports as follows: Last year
sold II, ,066 dozen eggs for St65. 80;
TT pounds OF butter. S28.40; mis-
cellaneous, $500; hay, S11.50; S
head OF cattle, S205.00; .27 hogs,
S278.OO; total S796.S SO, and this
with what was consumed at his
: own table, is not so bad a report
for cheap farm of so acres. Mrs.
G. A. Mildred of near Martins
burg, reports that she sold eggs
to the amount of S173. 90; chickens,
S17.OO; turkeys. 5000; geese,
ss 66; feathers, So 25; butter. SEAL;
lard, S7.67; total S235.30. Mrs. F.
T. Harris reports as follows: She
sold butter to the amount of S34:.-
IL; eggs, S75.38; chickens, $500; ;
meat and lard, $4,000; fruit and
Il r
: vegetables s6s.2s; milk, $3.50;
. to tai s596.OS.
> Speaking of poultry in general
T. w. Southland had this to say /:
"The annual poultry products are
moro than one.twelfth of the total
farm products of the country. Last
!, year their value was more than
billion dollars, or about the same
as the nations wheat crop and faI
! exceeding the combined output oi
q the country's gold and silver pro-
duction. With the annual produc-
tion Of poultry increasing at
i rapid rate, prices are becoming
: higher. Last year American heni
laid more than ~ billion eggs and
4 nearly all of them were consumed
! by the American people. Com
! paratively few were exported. The
demand for eggs is becoming
: greater all the time because thcy
4 are taking tho place Of high pricet
4 meats. Talk Of the future Of TIL
poultry business there is no 9th
I or branch of agriculture that af
: fords the advantages it does
I This county is taking the lea
6 in the poultry busineas, which l
attributed 10 the high prices pai'
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