Show hens produce tenth fc 0 of f present farm income of the united more gore than one third of the who thle worlds poultry round found in 13 country by CALEB JOHNSON As tn in almost everything else the jolted states leads the wold world in aultry and egg Vo p poultry are raised everywhere in he ha world everybody eats eata eggs aut one third ot of all of the worlds lom estic poultry are in coun colin sy ry we have five hens to every luman being which is a very much highet pio proportion portion than la Is to be aund anywhere else this is one oae branch of agriculture tat hat Is not confined to farms As everybody ivery wery body knows residents of vil aes and of the suburbs suburban of 0 cities ire as frequently as not found keep sg mg backyard flocks of poultry something more ahan halt half a million uch luch backyard back yard hocks flocks are estimated ly the fedial fede al department 0 of agri kiture which has computed the number ot of farm flocks at 5 12 1 2 aillinn or a total of about 00 flocks in a all poultry is raised on more than 86 er cent of the farms of the country about 85 per cent of the fowls are alsed on general farms in flocks ot of io to hens p principally inci pally in the aln aia producing north central states the number of dh chickens ickens on oil farms a 1929 was waa about with 1 value of the income lorn chickens and eggs amounted to 0 o about 10 per cent of 0 all farm income la in 1928 being estimated at for eggs and for chickens or a total of out of a total tn ome of 0 troia from farm poultry products ro ducts were exceeded Bice eded in value in 1928 by only our other ta fa ia products corn carn milk swine ielne and cotton over dozen begs and more than chicks are produced annual ay iy jr the poultry industry in the U 3 represents presente re on the fhe ono one hand band a videly distributed enterprise supplemental plem to general carmi ig mid and on OIL the other hand a high devee deg ee of 0 in commercial plants in a producing sections near the larger cities oa the atlantic seaboard and nd in the pacific coast states state of california oregon and t on there awe are areas in which comme commercial poultry production ates la in the keep ag ot of poultry for breeding stock md and for the product faa of eggs for la Is important the baby chicks being sold to those who keep both large and small hocks flocks tor for f egg production f throughout tho the farm production ideas aea aa well as in the commercial poultry districts are many highly egg packing plants poul ry y feeding beeding and slaughtering paints poultry canning pal paints rits and gg rb creaking Dl pla wIts its while cold storage are devoted to an im 0 octant extent to the ot of poul tri 17 products although AlthOu ira the industry la is made up of if producers produce ra and aad bandler band lers B it f chickens and chicken eggs tho the duck duch aad goose production a also important few products are U chely distributed and consumed te poultry meat and eggs the y industry la Justry has develop ta d irom arom a small beginning when the ret settlers sett lera ought bought b fowls fowle to north at aued on page e eight g F HENS TENTH OF FARM INCOME IS IN THE V U S continued from pago gnp america and the production of poultry tor for meat wid aad eggs has been an important source of food supply for the cities tor for over years the commercial development of plants der devoted voted to poultry y raising alono alone began about 1870 and thereafter in creased attention was given t to 0 the breeding feeding and management in about 1873 standards were developed and in 1874 tho the thirst standard of perfection orr was printed beginning about the year 1890 hatching batching la in incubators on a largo large scale developed P ed and in 1916 the internal baby chick association was organized in the early history of the poultry industry the egg market offer otter ed the main stimulus to better in methods in tills this land of 0 abundant me meat at supplies eggs were more of a luxury than pou poultry itry until the development ot of cold zt storage orage mark market et ing was limited by the lack of means of preservation eggs agga were often preserved by immersion in Hine limewater water and were sometimes preserved in lee ice houses As facilities became adall available cold storage came lato into more general use as a means of preserving the surplus production of the spring months tor for consumption in summer and F fall all the introduction i of the 30 dozen egg caa to displace the barrell barrel as ag a package for eggs which occurred about 1880 was considerable economy the production of dressed poultry for market was greatly stimulated py by the use of refrigeration for transportation and storage poultry raising occupies arv an im poi tait t a it place in iff the organization of north american farms not only I 1 U poultry raised orn on about 90 per cent of the farms but on many farms I 1 poultry products are one of the best paying products the value of eggs TeD represents resents about 57 ber per cent and the value of poultry meat about 43 pet pa ceat ce it of the total value of all poultry products chickens contribute about 95 per cent 0 of f the value of all poultry products and are the only class of poultry raised extensively for the production of eggs all other classes being raised D primarily I marily for the production of the ineat |