The patriot., 1920-09-10
POULTRY DRIVE WEEK
OF SEPTEMBER 2O-25
.s'Ne
PLAN Is TO PLACE 1000 .RENs or
PURE.eRED POULTRY
IN STATE.

september SOLn 70 Xbtn Will Dc
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 prOduc-
tion In the State. Louisiana, accord.
ing to the poultry specialists. produces
not more thaA 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 pure-bred chickens
In the parishes where there are farm
and home demonstration agents to
lead and direct the campaign.
Poultry Production Low.
ton Of Florida, Is the lowest poultry
producing State In the South; TIE
census figures Of 1903, the latest sta.
tistics available, show the value of
poultry and eggs produced in Arkan.
kas during that year amounted to ST.
S45.SS4; Mississippi. $6.906s9Si; Lou
fsiana, S4,392.O17.
: Can Louisiana farms and back yards
sroduce top quality poultry and eggs.
and IL SO is the land on which same
IS grown too valuRble to merely raise
chickens"?
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
6f the United States.
Further investigation by the above
mentioned authorities show that at
least rs per cent of the poultry and
eggs being shipped into Louisiana are
produced ON land which has a much
higher valuation than Louisiana land,
New Orleans . Coed Market.
New Orleans alone consumes aps
proximately 500 cases Of eggs each "a
hours, 1T retail price Of SO cents per
dozen wholesale price was AZ cents
per do8en August 14). New Orleans
daily egg bill is $4,000. or $4.380, 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 .
Nkened ratio OF population. Figures
compiled by the Louisiana State Uni
versity for year 1918 show that 30
Per cent Of the eggs and 80 per cent
Of the chickens eaten in the State Of
Louisiana are imported.
Poultry Supply Short.
What IA the future financial outlook
cR the poultry 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 3,955, $40 cases the
same day, 1890, s,27S.4s5 cases, or: q
shortage over last year Of sT6,44l
cases, which euualled 20.298.2R0 dozep,
Dressed poultry IN storage. August
I, 1919, 1885, ,2s1 pounds, same day
in 1920. -l5.1lS,SSs pounds, or short;
age as compared with last year Of
4,SlS,3 ,3S2 pounds.
II you happen to be a consumer pos.
sIbly you have not forgotten how you
commented last year on the scarcity
Of poultry and poultry products; or II
producer how you longed for, q guam
tity Of these products to place son the
market at the existing high prices.
From the above figures showing an
enormous shortage every indication is
that prices are going to be even higher
this winter than they we're last year.
The outlook for the poultry and egg
producers was never brighter than at
the present time.
Better get In touch with your Coanty
Agricultural or Home Demonstration
Agent and place that order today Tor q
san Of standardized poultry.
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