The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
POULTRY INDUSTRY
INCOME INCREASES
Tar Heel Farmers Received
$4,62S,O 900 For 9,255,O0O
Chickens Last Year
By LOUIS H. WILSON
Editor, N. C. Department of
Agriculture

RALEIGH, Dec. 15.- Up North
Cardinals income from poultry and
poultry products is definitely on the
increase.
That is the opinion of w. T. Wes-
son, junior statistician of the State
Department of Agriculture, who to-
day. reported Tar Heel farmers re-
ceived $4,62S, 900 for 9,255, 600 chick
n last year, selling more birds than
at any time during the last Is years.
Chickens were sold for an average
of approximately so cents per bird.
North Carolina ranked fourth
among the states in the value of
chickens consumed on the farm and
fifth in the value of eggs consumed
in 1889.
incidentally, cash income from the
sale of chickens last year was re-
ported at 60 per cent above the five.
year Q930-1934) average, and 32 per
cent above the Q935-1939) average.
Basing his report on a study of
North Carolina poultry and poultry
product production and consumption
for 1889, Wesson reported:
North Carolina farmers produced
81, 1917, 900 dozen eggs of which 81
Alt, 900 dozen or 50 per cent were
sold and 25,50o, 900 dozen or 4S per
cent were consumed for all purposes
on the farm. The average cash in
come Of s5,53O,00O from the sale of
eggs during the f%ive-year (1935-39)
period is 40 per cent higher than the
previous f%ive-year period of 1930-34
which showed an average cash in
come Of $685., 900.
There were 1875, 900 chickens
raised on farms of which So per cent
was consumed in the farm house
hold; 40 per cent was sold; seven per
cent was lost; and about one per
cent was kept for breeding purposes.
For the United States, egg pro.
duction during the first eight months
of 1910 was about Is per cent larger
than during the corresponding
months of 1889 and the total egg
production for 1910 is expected to
be the largest since 1881 when the
previous peak was reached" Yves
son said. October egg production
this year was the largest on record
with production estimated at 2,215,'
0OO, 900 eggs, compared with the next
largest production Of 1852, 000,0 900 for
October of last year, or an increase
Of about eight per cent"
Storage stocks of shell and frozen
eggs in the United States on August
1 of this year were about nine per
cent more than for the same period
last year.
Farm marketing of chickens Tin
GLIDING fowl are expected to decline
during the latter part of 1910 and
the early part of 1871 relative to
m%arketings Of a year earlier, be-
cause of the smaller hatch In 1910
and the smaller number Of layers
now on hand" Wesson added
"Marketings of poultry during the
last half of 1871, however, probably
will tend to be larger than during
the last. half of this year.
1.-THE feed-egg ratio for the first
half of 1871 is expected to be better
than it was for the same period in
1910, and because of this, the 1871
hatch of chicks is expected to be
larger. This may mark the upturn
of another three-year cycle of chick
production.
"North Carolina farmers last year
received a gross income from chick
ems and eggs of s20,s27, 900 which is
seven per cent of the total gross 1899
farm income Of $311, 205, 900 and rep
resents about seven per cent of all
farm products"