The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-09-16
POULTRY DRIVE WEEK
OF SEPTEMBER 20-25
PLAN 10 TO PLACE 1000 PENS or
PURE-eRED POULTRY
IN 6TATE.

! September goth to 25th will b,
known as Poultry Week in Louisiana
and all specialists. parish agents an,
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 cmpha
size the necessity Of the greater pro
duction Of poultry and poultry produc
t1on 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. 1t Is the plan TO
place 1000 pens OF purebred chickens
in the parishes where there are farm
and home demonstration agents to
lead and direct the campaign.
Poultry Production Low.
Louisiana, with the possible excep.
ton OF Florida, is the lowest poultry
producing State in the South. The
census figures Of 1909, the latest sta
tis'fcs available, show the value OF
! poultry end eggs produced in Arkan-
sas during that year amounted to ST.
345.sA; Mississippi. sG,9O6.9S1; Lou
isiara. S4.312.h17.
Can Louisiana farms and bac., yards
produce top quality poultry and eggs.
and II so is the land on which same
Is grown too valuable to merely raise
chiCkcus"?
Authorities Of the State University
and the United States Department OF
Agriculture state emphatically that as
good quality poultry and eggs can and
Is being produced in limited quantities
In Louisiana as in any other section
of the United States
Further investigation by the above
mentioned authorities show that at
least IS per cent OF the poultry and
eggs being shipped into Louisiana are
produced on land which has much |
higher valuation than Louisiana land |
New Orleans a Good Market.
New Orleans alone consumes ap-
proximately 500 cases Of eggs each "a
hours. at retail price Of SO cents per
dozen wholesale price was AZ cents /
per dozen August ~. New Orleans
daily egg bill is $4,000, or s4,3s0, 900
yearly. New Orleans poultry bill is
equally as large II not larger What
is true Of New Orleans is true of the
other cities throughout the State in a
likened ratio Of population. Figures
compiled by the Louisiana State Uni
versity for year 1918 show 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. I
What is the future financia outlook
of the poultry industry?
August Z, 1919, figures given out by
he United States Department Of Agri-
culture show that the total holdings
II eggs in cold storage throughout the
United States was s.s55.S7s cases; the
'arrc day, 1920. 3.219,435 cases, or a
hCrtase ever last year Of G76,441
asses, which ceualled 2o,2s3 ,230 dozen.
Dressed poultry in storage, August
;, 1919, 1e,?39,2S1 pounds, same day
n 1920, 15.119,So2 pounds, or a short
ge as compared with last year OF
,S19,3S2 pounds.
IL you happen to be consumer DOS.
fbly you have not forgotten how you
ommented last year on the scarcity
t poultry and poultry products; or II
producer how You longed for a quan.
|ty Of these products to place on the
larket at the existing high prices.
From the above figures showing an
normous shortage every indication ID
1at prices are going to be even higher
his winter than they were last year. I'll
The outlook for the poultry and egg "
roducers was never brighter than At
le present time.
Better get In touch with your County
or Home Demonstrat ton
gent and place that order today for q
sn of Standard bred poultry.