The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-06
POULTRY ON FARMS
Preliminary Statement of Thirteenth
 Census Statistics

Census Statistics
 Statistics relative to poultry report ed on farms for continental United States, at the Thirteenth Decenial Census, April 15, 1910, are contained in an official statement issued by Di- rector Durand. It is based on tabu- lar summaries prepared by pr. John Lee Coulter under the direction of Dr. Le Grand Powers, chief Stat1SIc1an TOT agriculture in the Bureau of Census Department of Commerce and Labor. Special attention is called to the fact that the present statement relates on ly to poultry on farms, as no enunne-- ation was provided for by law for c1t- ies and towns. Preliminary state ments by States have been published. Number of Farms Reporting Each Glass
 The total number of farms report Gng poultry in 1910 was 5,585,032, or 1 SIS per cent. of al farms in conttnen- | tai United States. Only 6,507 of the farms reporting poultry failed to re- port chickens. Turkeys were reported 1 from S71,123 farms, or 13.7 per cent ducks from 5o5,704, or 7.9 per cent.s guinea fowls from s3ss53s. or 5.S per cent; and pigeons from 109,07, or IT l per cent.
 Number and Value of Fowls ! The number of fowls reported in I 1910 was 295, ,880, GOO, and their total value was $154, ,663, GOO, or an average value of 52 cents- Nearly 95 per cent | of all the fowls were chickens they was $40, ,2O6, 600, the average value be- | ing 50 cents. Turkeys numbered B. ! 6S9, 900 and were valued at $6606s s0O0s 1 the average value being SITS. The | ducks reported numbered 2, ,907, 600, and | were valued at $1, 1,567. .OO0, With an av- | craze value of 54 cents Of geese the | total number was 4,432,000, and the l value $3,195,00o, or an average value l of p cents. In 1910 there were also 1 reported 1,765,0O0 guinea fow-s, valued | at $S13, 900; 2,731, 900 pigeons, valued at l $762, GOO; and 6,5S peafowlss valued at | SIS, 300. Ostriches to the number of | 5.361 were reported, with a value of l $1, ,696, 900. or over $500 each The os- 1 triches were reported from five States 1 Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida 1 and Texas.
 Changes in Number and VaIue o9 1 Fowls, 1900 to 1910
 The total number of fowls in the l United States increased from N250, 624s- ! GOO in 1900 to 295, 900 in 1910, a gain 1 of over 45, 900, 900, or 1S-1 per cent. The | figures for the two censuses are com l parable despite the change in date 1 of enumera ton, fowls under months l old being excluded in both eases. The 1 number of turkeys, ducks and geese 1 however, decreased very materially Tn l nearly every section of the country ] The aggregate increase in fowls Wa-ss therefore, due to the increase in the number of chi fckens, which rose from I The percentage of decrease for turkeys l was. s44.1.- for ducks 39-S, and for geese Z1.95 Comparable figures for the minor classes of foWis-gu1nsa IoNVlss peafowls and pigeons-are not avail abe for 1900. The number of os- triches reported in 1900 was only0 6S&s 1s1o. Ga a00'' one-e'sn'n a many @
 The percentage of increase in value l of poultry was over four times as great as that in number, amounting I fn per fowl thus rose from 34 cents tn 1900 to g per cent. in 1910.
 Distribution of Fowls by Geographic
 Division
 The poultry industry is distributed throughout the United States In the several geographic divisions, however the number of fowls per 100 acres or improved farm land varies consider ably. The New Eng and divisTo on shows the greatest relative number which is about 98 fowls per 100 acres of improved farm land. while the low est relative number 6S6) Is in the fmountain division The Middle At Iantic and East North Central divis- ions also show large relative numbers amounting, respectively, to S9 and 81 | fowls per 100 acres of improved land II Of the total number of fowls in 1 continental UrEted States in 1910 con siderably over one-haf, or 54S per cent were in the two North Central divisions; about one-hfth, or 1S8 per cent, in the two South Central dIvls-
  per cent in the New Eng and and Middle Atlantic divisions; somewhat less than one-tenth. or 94 per cent, lin the South Atlantic division: and 5.4 per cent in the two western divisions the Mountain and Pacific.
 The distribution of chickens among the several geographic divisions nat urally corresponds very closely 10 the distribution of the total number of fowls, since chickens constitute much the greater proportion of all fowls In l 9th. -T1 aF the two North Central divisions have a somewhat smaller proportion Of the total for the country than ln the case l of chickens; of turkeys, 41o per cent l wer reported from these two dlv1S- ions; of ducks, 46.6 per cent and Of geese, only 56.1 per cent The two South Central divisions comHned had 445 per cent of the total number of geese a very much larger percentage than they possessed in the case of chickens.
 Increase of Fowls on Farms
 Every geographic division reports an increase during the decade in mum Der of fowls on farms The greatest actual additions appeared Cn the East North Central and West North Central divisions and these two divisions also had a greater percentage of increase than any of the others except the rapidly growing Mountain and Pacific divisions For the two North Central divisions combined the number of fowls increased 22.7 per cent; for the Mountain and Pacific divisions com bined, 55.9 per cent; for the East and west South Central divisions eombin- ed, 43 per cent; for the New England division, 7.2 per cent; for the Middle Atlantic division, 15.z per cent; and for the South Atlantic division, 1S.S per cent.
 during the decade in every one of the geographic divisions. but the number of turkeys, ducks, and geese decreased in every division. except that there were increases of turkeys and geese in the Mountain 1ivT Tsion and sight l increase in ducks in the Middle At lantic division
 Ten Leading States
 Iowa has. the largest total value of 1 poIlltrv amounting to S12s270, 000, and Missouri ranks second, with s11. 571. GOO. The eight States next in order are IL tlinois. s11. .6s7, ,00o; Ohio, g, ,533.o .oOO; New york, $7,s79, ,0oO: Indiana. sz,762, coos