PR0DUCTI0I1 &
FACTS -& FIGURES: Of |J.S EGG
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1. "er capita yearly consumptiio^i:5. Trewar, 320 eggs; 1945, 392 eggs (the all-time
record high); 1946, 382;eiggd; and the 1947 predictions, 370 eggs, b etter than an
egg per day.
2. The poultry and egg .industry ranks third in gross income value among agricultural
products. It is a three 'billion forty-one million dollar industry.
3. Eggs are produced on 5,000,000 general and commercial farms. They are produced on
more farms than any other agricultural commodity.
4. 80$ of all eggs are from farm flocks; 20$ come from commercial flocks, 60 - 65$
of the total eggs produced in this country come from the midrest or corn belt area,
5. The annual egg production per hen increased from 120 eggs in 1936 to 153 eggs in
1946, due to better feeding, breeding and management. (Original jungle fowls laid
20-25 eggs a year.)
6. The champion hen of the 1946 Egg Laying contest V7as a Rhode Island Red that laid
351 eggs—then took two weeks* vacation. (Deserved toj)
If the egg is the'freshest thing around your kitchen, don't mind it. It's the tasti
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NATIVE ALASKA ART AND CRAFT INDUSTRIES
F. Seymour Fauto, recently appointed supervisor of arts and craftt for the Alaska
Native Service, made his first visit to Interior Alaska this week, accompanied by
George Frank, wood industrialist of Paris and New York who was employed jointly by
the Alaska Native Service and the Alaska Development Board to survey the Territory
preparatory to developing new industries in the Territory that will keep money in
Alaska and utilize the natural reso urces for the people of Alaska.
Nr. Fauro said that he was’"amazed that 75 percent of all the Alaskan novelties are
manufactured in the States,” "That is one thing we are goint to try to put a stop to.
tie think that every totem ftole and every moccasin should be handmade and be of native
origin.”
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