The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-05-16
MUCH MONEY
in POULTRY
Vast Sum In the Valuation of
1909 Reports-Tennessee
Was Good Show.

washington, Way lo.-A pIcHIul-
nary statement of the results of the
thirteenth census relative to the num-
Der of farms reporting the raising OF
poultry and production of eggs togeth-
er with the number cffowls and dozens
Of eggs produced, and the value thereof,
in 1909, was issued today by Director
Z. Dana Durand Of the Bureau Of the
Census, Department of Commerce and
Labor. 1t was prepared under the direc-
ton of lie Grand Powers, chief statist'-
clan, and John Lee Coulter, expert
special agent for agriculture.
The total number of farms reporting
fowls raised in 1909 was $500, 754, or
$50 per cent of all the farms in the
United States, and the number of such
fowls was 4SS, ASS, 1854, or an average of
1914 fowls per farm. No report was
published in 1900 showing the number
of farms reporting or the number of
fowls raised in 1899, but the total value
was given as 1888, 152, as against
value in 1909 of 1902 500, 272. 1t will
thus be seen that the value of poultry
produced in one year shows an increase
during the decade of over $65, 800, 900,
or 4S per cent.
| The last census shows that in 1909
there were produced in the United
States l ,59l 81 ,37l dozens eggs, valued
at:S3O6, 6SS, 800. The production in 1899
was 2,293, 1852, 433 dozen eggs, and the
value, S144, 24O, SAL. While the produc-
ton Of eggs during the ten years in
creased but 20 per cent, the value more
than doubled, the exact amount of
gain being 1882, AS, 4l9, or 1925 per
cent.
Seven States in the country raised
over 10000, 900, fowls in. 1909, namely:
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Kan
sas, Ohio, and Indiana, their combined
production comprising over 80 per cent
of the poultry produced in the United
States. Only four States, however, re-
ported production of over 1O0,0OO, 600
dozen eggs: Missouri, Iowa, Ohio, and
Illinois, their combined product repre-
senting over 26 per cent of the total.
Illinois raised 80, 1852 1893 fowls in 1909,
with total value of Sic, 4O4 ,02S, an
leverage of 4S cents per fowl. The pro-
duction of eggs amounted to 10O.l19,-
Ais dozen, valued at $lS,940, Asa, an
average value of 10 cents per dozen.
The production of poultry in Mis-
souri, amounted to 81 1913, 21O fowls val
ued at $14, 572, 1856, or an average of As
cents per fowl. This State reported a
production of III, Sl6,693 dozen eggs,
having total value of $19,345.6O2, or
an average value OF II cents per dozen.
Iowa, with production of 20, 800, 147
fowls, ranks third among the States.
The total value of its poultry was $751;
9l4 ,385,or an average of As cents per
fowl. A total of 100, $50, 4S7 dozen eggs
were produced in 1909, valued at $19,-
235, 800, or an average of IS cents per
dozen.
The %, 1888, 0O5 fowls raised in Ohio
were valued at SIC, 1891, 1888; the average
value per fowl amounting to Al cents.
This State produced l0O,SS9,599 dezen
eggs, having total volue of $40, 748,-
65S, or an average value of 20 cents per
dozen.
According to the compilation, Ten
nessee in 1909 reported 225, O76 farms on
WHICH there were II, Ale, 20S fowls, the
value of the fowls being $5,774,175.
Farms reporting eggs were 224, 4SO,
with a., 04S, 204 dozen, valued at 81 1885,
146.
The figures for Alabama are: Farms
reporting. 225,OO9; numbers of fowls,
2,467 1885, value of fowls, So, 1854
Eggs produced: Farms reporting, 224,-
$50; dozens Of eggs; %, 234 ,713; value OF
eggs, So, 1862 ,455..
Kentucky's 234, 257 farms reporting
had 19,47,2S7 fowls, valued at Sc, 1887,
COS, while 233, 4SO farms prod uced As
313,877 dozen eggs, valued at 81, sos, l16