Identifier: farmpoultry1912unse (find matches)
Title: The Farm-poultry
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Poultry Northeastern States Periodicals Poultry Industry Northeastern States Periodicals
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : I.S. Johnson and Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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periment SlaliouCorTaUis, Oregon, , The demand for both poultry and eggs has been in-creasing faster than the supply, and there is no dangerof overproduction. The reverse is true. Not only doesthe city of Portland depend on eastern eggs to a largeextent during the winter, but it is a fact that many ofthe small towns in the rural communities of the stateare buying eastern eggs from Portland dealers. It is acondition that is undesirable that the poultry farm-ers of Front street, Portland, are selling eggs to thepoultry raising communities of the Willamette valley.This may probably be excused on the theory that thesecommunities prefer to use the cheaper eastern productthan the high priced eggs that their own hens lay inthe winter; but the shipments of ranch eggs to Portlandin winter are very light. Markets in Neighboring States. Not only is there a good market in Oregon for eggsand poultry, there are also good markets in neighboringstates. Eggs that are quoted in Portland at 40 cents are
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View on Poultry Farm of H. Ringhouse, Gresham, Oregon,quoted in Seattle at 48 cents, and in San Francisco at55 cents. Our markets, therefore, will be governedlargely by those to the north and south of us. Thosemarkets will take any possible surplus we may have.The importations of eegs and poultry into Seattle arevery much greater than into Portland. According to apublished statement of !Mr. .1. L. Anderson, superin-tendent of the poultry department of the Alaska-Yukonexposition, Seattle imported in 1906, 250 cars of eggsand 155 cars of poultry, valued at $810,0(30, figuringeggs at an average of 20i^ cents a dozen, and poultry at14 cents per jwund. I have not the figures showing the importations intoSan Francisco, but they reach a tremendous sum. Theshipments of live poultry from the east to San Fran-cisco are large. A special poultry car is used for theseshipment.s which holds from 3,000 to 5,000 cliickens,according to size, two such cars from Kansas beingunloaded the day I was tliere

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