Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1917 — Poultry Raisers of United States Can Aid in Feeding the World [ARTICLE]

Poultry Raisers of United States Can Aid in Feeding the World

By E. E. RICHARDS

President American Poultry Association

It is up to the United States, the world's greatest, richest and most resourceful nation, not only to look after the welfare of her own citizens, but to give aid and assistance in supplying food to countless thousands of suffering humanity in the torn and stricken war zone. Ihe great agricultural resources of America must prepare to assume this burden. Lvep one of us must do his bit. Every acre, every nook and corner must bear its share. . ~ . ■ - . ■ * « . It is lucky that in poultry we can produce the cheapest and mos quick Iv producing meat .of all the various sources of our meat supply. It is a well-known fact that-the-J-vailable supply of meat productsns today the lowest in our country, per capita, in the history of the I mtei States To meet the extremely dangerous condition we have within ourselves a wonderful opportunity of aiding what may prove to be a worldwide cry for food. Let us all join enthusiastically in putting forth now every effort to meet the demand thht is sure to come for untold quantities' of foodstuffs. Never in the history of the world will there be a greater demand than in the next 24 months. The margin of profit on the production of eggs and poultry for meat is far in excess of the percentage of profit in normal times. But aside “ ro » the »t profit. A«.a„s tunst look atjhe —■ from a philanthropic ams humat.i'iSan sfaWon.Vanfi each and every one "do his hit." Let us trv to be a factor in the production of an cxtia hundred million pounds of poultry meat, which is less than one poum additional for each man, woman and child in the I nited Sta is. agrmulture Ims just an estimate that upwards of seven hundred ffltttfons of dollars is the annual X.- ® W 8 intoffecd to produce poultry and eggs? . Every lipnte can have a self-supporting ami profitable flock in the back card l.v verting the oftalfront the table ami knehen .nlo the ven 5 jamlirv teed. Why such an astounding waste niter « mvaganee that costs us nearly for every ..tan, woman and Sold if the I iiiteT States? Let every W» haven nraPTtoultry home ainLa few wejl-kgpt-prpfitable fowls. —_ „