The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
Mr.. COBURN'S HEN BOOK
1t Is Distributed Today and Contains
Much Information.

NAuCAl
Secretary F. d. Coburn's latest
quarterly was issued today, and it
bears the euphonious title of Pro
ftable Poultry 1t is a sort of Sc
quel to the famous Helpful Hen"
quarterly, for which the demand was
SO immense that the edition was long
ago exhausted
In many ways the Profitable Poul-
Try" quarterly is far ahead of the
Helpful Hen"
1t possesses one feature which is
probably unique in such publications.
Midway in the book is a full page col
ored plate of a big husky rooster. The
rooster is arranged so that he turns
back on a flap and discloses various
other colored plates, showing the
same rooster in various processes of
dissection. First he is shown without
feathers, then without skin, then
without muscles and finally with moth
ing but the skeleton. The chicken-pie
stage is the only one not represented.
Along with this elegant colored man
ikin" of the chicken goes a complete
inventory of all his various parts, or
gans and dimensions. A complete
course in chickenology can be obtain
ed from studying these external and
Internal views of the bird. The book
ought to be popular with people who
want to learn how to carve, just on
account of the bone-chart of the
chicken.
In addition to the colored manikin
of the rooster. there are hundreds of
other illustrations in the book, and
vast amount of very useful and valu-
poultry culture.
In his introduction to the book, Mr..
Coburn says:
From it's nature the poultry indus
try will find it's greatest scope in the
areas presenting the most favorable
conditions, and none has natural ad-
vantages superior to those of Kansas.
Here the grains and other desirable
foods, including alfalfa, are abundant
ly and economically raised; mild Win
tiers and early Matching seasons greatly
lessen the cost of rearing and housing,
and her excellent transportation facili-
ties render the Sunflower state espe-
cially adapted for poultry's profitable
production on an unlimited scale. That
these advantages are coming to be APP
preciated and appropriated more and
more is apparent. and her poultry is
annually increasing it's substantial
contributions to the states wealth
Aside from the producing stock kept
over. and the poultry and eggs used in
the homes, the value of the surplus of
these commodities marketed in Kansas
amounts to millions of dollars each
year. IN lSUl II was WOIlH 91OsOOSYOo<
Omitting wheat. corn and hay, no crop
of the state would reach more than
about half that figure.
LAS indicating the increased and in
creasing Importance of the industry in
Kansas the following table is sugges-
tive, showing the value of the poultry
and eggs sold in the state for each of
the five years ending with 1907:
Year. Value.
1904 ................ 7.551,S11
1905 ....-..---.. 80. -. 8'54l' l5S
iS06 49, $500 ....'.'''..'.' S'o OSo oS9
1907 1O,3OO,USz
Twenty years ago their value was
$1,757.5OS. or about II per cent of
that of 1907, and ten years ago 3d.
s50,997, or 81 per cent of last years
return.
According to the latest federal CEN
sus, it took the aggregated value of the
Dakota. New Hampshire, Florida, Col
orado, Delaware, Rhode Island. and
nine additional states and territories
to approximate the worth of the Kan
sas fowls. California and Wisconsin
together failed to equal Kansas in this
respect; and while, owing to lack of
comparative statistics for recent years,
it cannot be said definitely that Kan
sas leads, yet if the value of any states
fowls surpasses that of Kansas today
the fact remains that Providence en-
dowed none with superior advantages
for poultry culture.
"In 1889 the Washington author
tiles ranked Kansas fifth in the yield
of eggs, with over seventy-three mil
lion dozens, worth $7,237.111. and the
value of poultry raised that year was
placed at $6,491,1S3. This does not in
clude the stock held over from the
preceding year, but the two items
alone make a total of $13.728,2 94. The
records of the State oBard of Agri-
culture disclose that the surplus poul-
try and eggs sold that year brought
which suggests something
of the value of these products con-
sumed or used by the growers,
that year to $9,4S6.425, or
about 20 per cent of the total. On
this basis the aggregate value of poul-
try and eggs produced in Kansas in
1907 would amount to over $4,000
900. The annual value of these pro-
ducts marketed in Kansas has more
than doubled in the past eight years.
Even better comprehension of their
may be had from the
statement that the income from these
in 1906 was sufficient to have paid SO
per cent of the state, county and city
taxes for that year, while trio OF
Kansas counties sold enough to more
than wipe out the state debt.
HHR amman