Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1904 — BIG MONEY IN CHICKENS. [ARTICLE]

BIG MONEY IN CHICKENS.

The poultry products in Indiana are more than double the value of the dairy products, and two and a half times the total value of sheep lambs and wool, and yet apparently little effort is made in that direction,” said State Statistician Johnson, while compiling the repeats for his new book"If a tithe of the care and attention bestowed upon raising sheep was given to poultry the result would be that the value of the poultry products would amount to many times that of sheep, if it did not equal both sheep and hogs. As it now stands it is more than> the combined value of the sheep I and dairy products.