Nags Head Poultryman Needs New Market Now That Families Raising Own Hens, 1944

“Plenty of Eggs on Roanoke Island,” by F.H. Jeter, Extension Editor at N.C. State College, Raleigh, in the April 1944 issue of The Southern Planter

Tradition-rich Roanoke Island, famed as the birthplace of Virginia Dare, and noted for the excellence of its near-by fishing grounds, now boasts of a more commonplace achievement. The families on the island have their own farm flocks of poultry to such an extent that commercial poultrymen find it hard to make sales of eggs there as in the past. C.E. Parker, an alert poultryman over on the banks at Nags Head, has been providing retail merchants in Manteo with nearly all the eggs they need. Poultryman Parker grades his eggs carefully and packs them in neat crates. The eggs are uniform in size, clean and fresh. Despite this, he cannot sell them on Roanoke Island.

The industrious islanders are producing their own eggs, in the first place; and in the second place, they are trading their surplus to the local storekeepers. Mr. Parker is hunting another market.