Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business . York. Consumingas it did over 1,289,387,160 eggs inthe year, Greater New York usedpractically 0J per cent, of all theeggs produced in the United 3during the year 1905. Figures Cor the (Sty of Boston,Mass., with its population of 600,-000, for the same year show totalreceipts of 1,393,456 cases, or prac-tically an average daily consump-tion
Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business . York. Consumingas it did over 1,289,387,160 eggs inthe year, Greater New York usedpractically 0J per cent, of all theeggs produced in the United 3during the year 1905. Figures Cor the (Sty of Boston,Mass., with its population of 600,-000, for the same year show totalreceipts of 1,393,456 cases, or prac-tically an average daily consump-tion of 2J eggs for each Bhows by these statistics Bostontakes 2) per cent, of the total number of eggs produced in the United FARMERS BENEFITTED In writing on the Causes Af-fecting Farm Values, Mr. GeorgeK Holme- of the I . S. Bureau ofStatistics, says of the poultry in-dustry: It may seem a matter of smallconsequence to mention poultry andeggs as an instance (referring to thecauses of unproved financial condi-tion of our farmers), but it shouldbe remembered thai the \alues of these products now reach an annualfigure of half a billion dollars ormore, or an amount about equalto the value of the wheat crop. Theprice of eggs has been high and. 2 0 0,000,000 EG05 PRODUCED EVERY YEARBY HENS IN UNITED STATES THE BIRD HE BEST Uncle Sams Hens Produce enough Eggs each Year to make aBelt for the Earth at the Equator 30 Eggs wide if placed end forgrowing higher for several years, end, and enough to spare to make a line of Eggs from New Yorkbecause consumers have wanted City to Pekin, China, via San eggs than have been produced. The exports are not worth mentioning. Apparently there is nolimit to the consumption of fresh eggs at a moderate price. Not long ago when talking with a poultryman who makes abusiness of shipping eggs to market, we asked him what was thelowest price lie could afford to sell eggs at and still make areasonable profit. He lives abou
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