Standard American Perfection Poultry Book: Describing All of the Different Varieties of Fowls, Their Points of Beauty and Merits as Settlers (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Standard American Perfection Poultry Book: Describing All of the Different Varieties of Fowls, Their Points of Beauty and Merits as Settlers

Compute the nine millions of gfamilies in the States as consuming but two dozen eggs per week, and twenty dollars' worth of poultry per yea'r, and we have (com puting eggs at twenty-five cents per dozen) over $405, Nor is this all. Large as it is, to it must be added the consumption by the saloons, restaurants, confectionery establishments, our thousands of hotels, together with the medicinal and chemical and exporta tion demands, Which will swell the amount to not less than five hundred millions oi dollars as the annual prod uet of the United States; an interest worthy of our considerate investigation. When we commence to make figures, we become surprised at their magnitude; and that you may not underrate the hotel consumption, you have only to consult the encyclopedias to learn that the hotels consumed sixty-two millions four 111111 dred and eighty-three thousand dollars' worth of eggs and poultry for the year 1879. There must, of course, have been a great increase since that time.

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