Profit is the object in view of each.
and in poultry it will arise from three
sources eggs, leathers, and etock fat
tened for market. The demand for
barn-door fowls is increasing; tbeir
sales, therefore, may be safely calcula
ted upon, l do not tand either in
the United States, or any State censn?,
except in that of the State of Xew York,
an enumeration in regard to ponltry.an
omission which I hoe will be corrected
in the next national census.
The census of this stte gives data
whereby we may approximate the mag
nitude of the poultry industry for the
nation. In the State census the value
of poultry sold for 18G1 was $1,223,041,
and value of eggs for 1604 was $1,303,
010, total value of poultry sold, $2,531,
054. This amount, it will be noted, is
only for a single State. The number of
farms by the United States census ts
210,233, which would allow ns the yearly
value of poultry for each farm $11 75.
The nnmber of farms in the United
States is put down at 2,059,985. Taking
the data furnished by the Xew York
census, and the poultry industry of the
nation exceeds in annual value over
$31,000 000. If to this be added the
sum of $5 for the value of family con
sumption, the annual value of the poul
try interest is over $12,000, 000.
Improyino Seed Wheat. Sow none
bnt the largest and most perfect kernels.
