The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 billion dollars is set down as the value of the poultry and egg products or the United States for the present year. as estimated by the 1911 catalog of an incubator company.
 The United States census of 1900 gave the value of poultry and eggs at s2So,jS6,- 42s. In 1905, according to the ninth an nual report of Secretary Wilson of the de- partment of agriculture poultry products had. climbed to place of more than half billion dollars in value so that the farmers hen now competed with wheat for precedence; while at banquet given by the Washington Poultry asso- ,iation in December. 1909, Secretary Vii son said that the poultry and egs products of the United States in 1908 amounted to s70O,O00OO0 and were second only to the corn crop in value"
 The catalog goes on to say that totals supplied by the government show that in 1905, 1906 and 1907 the increase was 50 per cent more rapid than from 1900 to 1864, and If this rate of more rapid in crease was kept up for 1908, 1909 and ls10, as no doubt it was, then it is clear that in 1911 we shall have $1,oO0, Go,0Oo poultry industry, and with a good margin to spare.'
 Regular poultry courses are now taught at more than 20 agrucultural colleges of the United States and Canada, and grad uates in poultry husbandry are now rc- ceiviug diplomas at the rate of several thousand each year. These graduates are returning to the farms of the country to
 
 proved methods, or they are taking places as professional poutrymen, or starting plants of their own
 It is stated that probably more ano better poultry. especially dressed poul- try, is delivered daily at Faneui ant Quincy markets. Boston, than to an! other market place in the world. New England was the cradle of the poultry industry in North America and the poultry growers of that section have fully held their own both in the science of breeding exhibition quality and in the production of prime table poultry, in cloding broilers, capons and the famous South Shore soft roasters.' These sof coasters retail at s250 to s4 each a weights of six to ten pounds dressed.
 Hundreds of carloads of live poultr! are shipped east from Indiana, Illinois Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and other mid west states. More than 800 regular poultry cars are now employed in thi: service. Then years ago the number o these cars was less than 200.
 More than 2000 poultry exhibition. are now held each year in the United States. including fall fairs and winter poultry shows. The different branches of poultry raising as a business include the operation of broiler and roastel plants, egg farms, duck ranches, tho sale of day old chicks, custom hatch ing, the work of fanciers and so on. the successful fancier being now knowr more generally as a poultry breeder because of the increase in the commer- cial value of his work.
 There are now thousands of experi. enced poultrymen in the United States and Canada who make a regular bushes. of breeding standard bred fowls, theil annual production varying from smal hocks to thousands of birds. Prices ob tained for this stock range from s1 tc 310G head. with occasional sales reach ing such figures as s200, s300. $500, $500 S1000 and even s1500 for extra choic breeding stock or exhibition specimens Similar prices now pervail in Englan, also for exceptional quality.
 Eggs for matching from standard bre fowls now sell freely at prices that wou have been declared impossible twenty O thirty years ago. Customary prices range from $1 for 13 eggs 10 as much a 11O an egg. One poultryman sold 4634 egg