The total value of all the poultry raised on Loudoun farms in 1899 was $114,313, an average value per farm of $58.68.
The number of chickens three months old and over, including guinea fowls, on farms in Loudoun County June 1, 1900, was 132,627; turkeys, 7,218; ducks, 2,171, and geese, 1,036.
The total value of all poultry on hand, including the value of all young chicks unreported, as well as that of the older fowls, was $58,276, an average of $29.92 per farm reporting.
Shenandoah was the banner county of Virginia in egg production, reporting 1,159,000 dozens; Rockingham ranked second, with 1,150,500 dozens, and Loudoun third, with 771,780 dozens, the fourth highest competitor, Augusta county, lacking 60,580 dozens of this last number.
Of Virginia counties at the last census Loudoun ranked third in the number of chickens on farms, third in number of turkeys, third in value of poultry products in 1899, and second in value of poultry on hand June 1, 1900.
There were in the County June 1, 1900, 2,225 swarms of bees, valued at $6,428. They produced the same year 24,970 pounds of honey and 1,110 pounds of wax.
The total and average values of Loudoun's farm products of 1899, with percentages, are set forth in the following table:
| Value of products: | |
| Fed to live stock | $1,018,434 00 |
| Not fed to live stock | 1,817,414 00 |
| Total | $2,835,848 00 |
| Per cent not fed to value of farm property | 16.4 |
| Average value per farm: | |
| Fed to live stock | $523 00 |
| Not fed to live stock | 933 00 |
| Total | $1,456 00 |
| Average value per acre: | |
| Products fed | $3 24 |
| Products not fed | 5 79 |
| Average value per acre of improved land: | |
| Products fed | $4 04 |
| Products not fed | 7 22 |