U.S.A. POULTRY INDUSTRY.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 319, 19 December 1929, Page 6

U.S.A. POULTRY INDUSTRY.

During recent years the value of the poultry industry in U.S.A. has frequently been compared with that of other industries. Recent comparisons to hand show little alteration of the figures that were previously paablishted. In a tries sage to poultry raisers which appears in “ Poultry Tribute 99 of America, Mr Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, asked : Xi Who can fail to marvel over the hen when we stop to consider that the annual value of poultry products is about one thousand million dollars (equal to more than two hundred million pounds sterling). This is just about equal to the sum of the interest on the national debt and the reserve to the sinking fund. Give her a few more years and the American hen would pay off all our bonded indebtedness. The value of poultry products in 1928 was greater than that of all the vegetabe crops; double the value of aA the fruits; ten times greater than the sugar crops; or of all the horses raised that year; six times the value of the sheep, and the hen was ahead in the race with beef cattle. She has at last come to be recognised as a business builder and profit-maker when produced on a larger scale. Undoubtedly she has been a money-maker for many years! in more modest establishments. Only the women of America, I suspect, have any conception of the number of college coureses, modernised homes and improvements in living conditions that have come out of the “ egg. money, so commonly a perquisite of the farm woman.” There are over one hundred and twenty million people in the United States, and the value of the poultry industry is two hundred million. In Australia there are about six million people, and the industry is worth fifteen millions, so that relatively the value is greater in Australia. America consumes practically all her poultry products. She exports at some seasons of the year, rnd imports enormous quantities of egg pulp from China.