Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-03-17
Farming Development in Texas in Past Decade
Shown in Statement by Commercial Secretaries
AMERICAN HEN IS
NOW b|Ll|0MA|RESs

4 billion dollars is set down as
the value OF the poultry and egg
products Of the United States for the
present year. as estimated by the
1911 catalogue of an incubator com
pany
Tho United States census of 1900
gave the value of poultry and eggs at
$2SO.6S6,349. In 1905, according to
the ninth annual report OF Secretary
Wilson of the department OF agrlcul-
ture. poultry products had climbed
TO a place of more than $500 900. o0N
in value" so that the farmers hen
now competed with wheat for prece-
dence while at a banquet given by
the Washington Poultry Association
In December, 1909. Secretary Will
son said that "the poultry and egg
products of the United States In 1908
amounted to 500, 900 900 and we're
second only 10 the corn crop In
value"
The catalogue goes on 10 say that
totals supplied by the government
show that In 1905, 1906 and 1907
the increase was 80 per cent more
rapid than from 1000 to 1904, and
III this rate of more rapid increase
was Kept M for 1905. 1909 and 1910
as no doubt It was. then 6, is clear
that in 1871 We shall have 81 900.
100000 poultry industry, and with
rood margin to spare
Regular poultry courses are now
taught at more than twenty arricul-
tursl COLLEGES Of the United States
Z z az C7naai. aud graduates m poul.
try husbandry are now receiving Dip
Tomas al the rate OF several thousand
each year These graduates are re-
turning 10 the farms Of the country
10 raise more and better poultry ~
improved methods. or they arc Stag
places as professional o.ltHrer. or
startinc plans of fs. own
r O. .t H.t oua'lys more
land la.- r..'F especially dressed
poultry H delivered dailva Faueul
. aui Quincy markets Boston than ~
7 anr other market place iu ths world.
View England Has He cradle of tho
Hos.g .ui" IN North America
ana 30 poultry growers of that sec
, uon have fully held their own both in
the science OF breeding exhibition
quality and in the production OF
prime table poultry. including broll-
erS, capons and the famott south
shore sof roastcrs" These soft
roastcrS retail At $3.50 to 81 each at
weights Of six 10 ten pounds dressed
Hundreds Of carloads ~ i've poul-
|'Iv ar. shipped east from Indiana
I l"ro.s Missouri ICvi Kansas AMI
other middle West states More than
So" re2.lrr poultry cars arr now en-
p'o'c1 in this service Ten yeqrs ago
tho ulnHer of these c7is was less
fhau 2oU.
Wore Than 5000 poultry exhibitions
arD now held each wear in the / nited
States. nCl1diue tan fairs ana winter
roult'y shows The different branches
. of poflf-v raiso.ue as Do, siucss in.
O'.dc fhr oucratiou OF utoiltr ana
rooster plants. co. farms. duck
ranches the sadie Of 'ay old chicks.
custom mi.uiu-. tn, work OF fan
eisrs and $50 on the successful fan
o.or boius now known more generally
as @ poultry breeder because ot the
increase in 'ro commercial value OF
his work
Thor, are now thousands of OK
p,ic.ccd roultryUen in TIE Unltei
State. lJl Canada who MAKE a regu-
Oar business OF hrccdinr standard
bred towisl their annual production
varying from small flocks 70 thou
sands of birds Prices obtained for
this stock range from 81 10 Sl00 a
head With occasional sales reaching
such figures rs S20c $500. 500,
$500. $1,000 and even $500 for ex-
ira choice breeding stock or exhibit
.f.Hu specimens Similar prices now
prevail IN Enslaud also for exception
al quality
Eyes Tor hltOhinr from standard
bred fowls nov soil freely at prices
Thar would have been declared imnos-
sibl, twenty or thirty Years ago. Gus
tomaD prices range from : for thir-
tccr eggs 90 as much as $40 an cgg.
ono poultry man sold i,i34 eggs last
winter and spring tor S9.0sS. at the
rate OF g. an egg Some specialists
1T popular varieties now receive from
a. 20 s. each for Matching eggs from
choicest specimens. and the demand
FOR them is greater than the supply.
nav old chicks now cell In great num-
beers 90 from 90 cents TO s. each. ac-
.orlug 20 the quality OF the parent
stock