Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-09-11
POULTRY DRIVFlWFfX
Ct SEPTEMBER 2O-25
PLAN IS TO PLACE tCoo PENS O.
PUREBRED POULTRY
IN STATE.

September 2Oth to 25th viii Ia
known as Poultry Week in Louisiana
and all specialists, parish agents and
others connected with the Extension
Division. Louisiana State University
will devote this week to talking more
poultry and better poultry.
The object of this drive is to empha.
size the necessity of the greater pro.
duction Of poultry and Poultry protuc.
ton in the State. Louisiana. accord
ing to the poultry specialists, PRODUCES
not more than 10 per cent Of the eggs
and 20 per cent of the poultry CON.
sumed in the State. tits the plan 10
place 1000 pens of purebred chickens
in the parishes where here are farm
and home demonstration agents to
lead and direct the campaign.
Poultry Production Low.
Louisiana, with the Possible excap.
ton Of Florida, Is the. lDwest poultry.
producing State in the South. The
census figures OF 1903, the latest sta
tistics available, shoy the value OF
poultry and eggs produced in Arkan.
sas during that year amounted to ST.
oi5,S34; Mississippi, SssO6,9 ISL; Lou
isiana, $4.392,O17.
Can Louisiana farms and back yards
produce top quality poaltry and eggs,
and if so is the land on which same
Is grown too valuable to merely raise
chickens"7
Authorities of the State University
and tie United States Department Of
Agriculture state emphatically that Nc
good quality poultry and eggs can az
Is being produced in limited quantlt3s
in Louisiana as in any other section
OF the United States.
Further investigation by the above.
mentioned authorities show that at
least 70 per cent 81 The poultry and
eggs being shipped INTO Louisiana are
produced on land Which has a much
higher valuation tha1 louisiana land.
New Orleans ped Market.
New Orleans aid Consumes ap-
proxlmately 500 cas( d eggs each "a
hours, at retail prio 81 so cents per
dozen Wholesale d was AZ cents
per dozen August 4 New Orleans
daily egg bill is slz or '4,3SO,OoO
yearly. New brleaI 4oultry bill is
equally as large /, larger. What
is true Of New Orb lis true of the
otsrsr cffesi chi o. n d a isss55tta1e M
likehed ratio of poptlshpn. Figures
compiled by the Loukiara State Uni
versity for year 1913 slow that 80
per cent of the eggs and so per cent
Of the chickens eaten in the State Of
Louisiana are imported.
Poultry Supply Short.
What is the future financial outlook
Of the poaltry industry
August Z, 1919, figures given out by
the United States Department Of Agri'
culture show that the total holdings
of eggs in cold storage throughout the
United States was 3,s55,S26 cases; the
same day, 1920, s,27s,4Si cases, or
shortage over last year OF 676,441
cases, which eQualled 20,293, 23O dozen,
Dressed poultry in storage, August
Z, 1919, 1899 PSI pounds, same day
in 1920, 15,119,89s pounds, or short.
age as compared with last year of
4,S19,3S2 pounds.
II you happen to be q consumer pos,
slbly you have not forgotten how you
commented last year on the scarcity
Of poultry and poultry products; or II
producer how you longed for & guam,
tlty Of these products to place on the
market at the existing high prices.
From the above figures showing an
enormous shortage every indication Ia
that prices are going 70 be even higher
this winter than they were last year
The outlook for the poultry and egg
producers was never brighter than at
the present time,
Better get in touch with your County
Agricultural or Home Demonstration