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Show Poultry Industry Expects To Boost Production One of the nation's newest agricultural agri-cultural industries is expected to boost the value of poultry products beyond the four billion dollar mark this year. This new industry known as the broiler industry is expected to account ac-count for almost half the chicken meat consumed in 1951, compared to an almost negligible amount 15 years ago. Poultry breeders have succeeded in developing chickens that eat less and still grow from two to three weeks faster to reach marketable mar-ketable size. H. H. Alp, Director of Commodity Departments for the American Farm Bureau Federation, recently credited the success of the new industry in-dustry to the nationwide Chicken-of-Tomorrow program sponsored since 1945 by A & P Food Stores. Only a few years ago, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture reports, most of the chicken meat consumed in this country came from so-called "backyard flocks." Records Rec-ords of specialized broiler production produc-tion in 1934 show that these chickens chick-ens accounted for only 3 per cent of total consumption of 18.8 pounds of chicken per capita. In 1951 broilers broil-ers are expected to account for 51 per cent of a per capita consumption consump-tion of 29.7 pounds. |
