Monday, May 13, 2013

Raising Broilers and Turkeys to Add to Family Income, 1935




“The Woman’s Touch,” by Jane S. McKimmon, Carolina Co-operator, May 1935

One of the most popular means of increasing farm income when it must be done by the farm woman is through the production of broilers and turkeys for market.

Anson County has built up an excellent trade in poultry and has a dependable list of customers in Raleigh, Greensboro, and Washington, D.C., to whom women producers make cooperative shipments.

The Home Agent Mrs. Rosalind Redfearn, says “As orders are received they are pro-rated among producers and the basement of the courthouse is used for assembling, weighing, and packing for shipment.

“Anson County as a standard for the poultry which it markets and producers as a whole maintain this standard by using good feeding and fattening methods and care in dressing. Birds are fed a balanced mash, given buttermilk if possible, and the premises are kept clean at all times.

“Cars of live poultry are run in broiler seasons and so are cars for fat hens, geese, and ducks.

“People are finding that marketing poultry cooperatively guarantees good sales at better prices than when they are peddled or handled individually.”

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