POULTRY AND EGG PRODUCT IN THE According to the Census of 1880 and 1890. At 12 cents a dozen, a very moderate estimate, the annual value of the egg product on the farm rose from $55,000,000 in 1879 to $98,000,000 in 1889, an increase of 79 per cent. There was an increase of 153 per cent in the number of barnyard fowl during the decade considered, and of other fowl (geese, ducks, turkeys, etc.) an increase of 15 per cent. IMPORTANCE OF APIARIAN INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES. (U. S. Department of Agriculture.) Apiarian societies in the United States... Apiarian journals...... Steam factories for the manufacture of beehives and apiarian implements... Persons engaged in the culture of bees (esti mated)..... 300,000 PRODUCTION OF HONEY AND BEESWAX IN THE UNITED STATES ACCORDING TO CENSUS RETURNS OF 1869, 1879, AND 1889. |