Arizona republican., 1921-08-02
CHICKEN POPULATION SHOWS BIC INCREASE IN TEN YEAR PERIOD

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The bu- reau of the census of the department of commerce announces. subject to correction, the following preliminary figures from the 1920 census of agrf- culture for the United States, with comparative figures for 1910: Chickens on Farms; Eggs Produced, and Chickens Raised-U. s Totals Chickens on farms:
 Jan. 1. 1920. 359. .537.3s5 April Is, 1910 ....... 2s0, $40, 959 Chicken eggs produced. est total:
 1919, dozens 1,656. .267, POO 1909, dozens l, 5I4. .el9.416 Increase. dozens S1,2SI.IS4 Per cent of increase .. 5.2 Chickens raised, est. total:
 1919. number .......... ,923,935 1909, number .......... .46aS05.7oa Increase. number .. 13,51s,226 1 Per cent increase 29
 Chickens on Farms l The number of chickens on farms | in the United States on January 1, 1920, according to the fourteenth cen sus, was 359. 9.537.3S5, while the mum l Der of chickens three months old and over on April 15.1910. was 2S0.340.957 | In making any comparisons, how ever, the change in the date of emu meration from April 15 in 1910 to
 
 account. Since many chickens are slaughtered or marketed every year between January 1 and April 15. an enumeration on the latter date would i show smaller number of chickens I on farms than one made in January of the same year. The number of chickens shown for 1910 is. therefore, too small for a comparison with the 1920 figure. The effect of the change | s,, q, lof xs,x, ,,1l he most marked in those states where l many chickens are marketed during the first three and one-haf months | of the year, and less important in those states where most. of the sur plus stock is disposed of before Jan 1 uary 1.
 The number of chickens on farms as reported for 1920, exceeds the number reported for 1910 by 79,196.- 426, or 2s.3 per cent. The actual in- crease after making allowance for the change in the date of enumera- tion, would doubtless be considerably less than this, and might even be about as low as the increase in the production of eggs. 52 per cent. ]. The states reporting the largest numbers of chickens on hand in 1920 were as follows: Iowa. 27.746.510: Hi nois, 25.120.643; Missouri, 24sS3,9 ,9s5
 
 Esgs Produced
 The production of chicken eggs or farms in the United States in 191! was 1,56.267. 200 dozens, as compared with 1.574, ,979,416 dozens in 1909. rep. I resenting an increase of S1.2S7,7S4 dozens, or 5.2 per cent. The figure: for eggs produced and chicken: raised in 1919 and 1909 afford a fail basis for comparison, since they re late in each case to the production for calendar year. The egg produc' tion given above includes estimates for farms which report chickens or hand but no eggs produced; the 190' figure was obtained by deductint from the total number of eggs pro duced by all fowls. as shown in th' Thirteenth census reports, an esti mate of those produced by fowl other than chickens.
 The number of chickens raised Il 1919 was 4T3.923,935. as compare with 46o, ,605.709 in 1909. This repre- sents an increase of 13,31s,226. or 2. per cent. Chickens raised do not in clude those matched and sold a "baby chicks but do include "bab chicks" purchased and raised, as wel as all other chickens matched an raised, even though they may hay been consumed or sold before the en of the year. Estimates for incom plete reports have been made fo chickens raised in the same way a for eggs produced