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Also bones of all sizes were ground up for poultry feed and fertilizer; see
page 153 in the 1897 Sears Roebuck for "bone cutters."
My Montana and Missouri and Wisconsin and Texas and California farming
families all fed bones to their pet dogs, cats, and (if they had them) in
the slops to the pigs.
S. Walter
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From: "Robert C. Leavitt" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:00 PM
Subject: A chicken in every pot
> In 1928 the Republican National Committee put out a
> pro-Hoover ad, saying that he would continue the
> prosperity begun by Harding and Coolidge who "...put a chicken in
> every pot. And a car in every backyard
> to boot." http://hoover.archives.gov/info/faq.html At that time
> Americans were eating an average of a half
> pound per year. By the end of WWII that had increased to 5 pounds a
> year and is currently 90 pounds per year.
> Until 1910, most were apparently raised for show. Note that the
> attribution is to the campaign for Hoover, NOT to
> Hoover himself. Nor was it a promise to provide so many chickens and
cars.
>
> Only by about 1910 did raising chickens for eggs supersede
> raising them for exhibition.
> http://www.birdflubook.com/a.php?id=66 Yeah, it's an odd source,
> but is thoroughly referenced. Might be
> interesting to trace some of the references to their sources.
>
> http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/509528.html provides
> some background on how that growth
> started...but doesn't tie directly to the RNC ad. I didn't happen to
> find a site that considered the (especially rural)
> home raising of chickens for eggs and meat.
>
> I'd suspect that a lot of the chickens for dinner were
> from flocks home-raised for eggs and were
> hens that had ceased laying, hens that didn't start laying, and eggs
> allowed to hatch, to, among other things, replenish
> the flock, especially the young roosters - after all one only needs a
> single rooster for a considerable flock and about
> half of all eggs will hatch out males.
>
> Amazing what one can find by goggling a phrase! Didn't
> ask my grandparents - last one died, at age 96, in 1954.
>
> RCL
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