As one enters the Granville County Hatchery, in the Brown Building south side of the court house, he is reminded of spring and sunshine, The chirping of thousand chicks, just from the shell, bids it welcome. Three weeks to the day after the egg has been placed in a till in the big incubator the chicks burst from its shell and lets is presence be known by a chirp. A few hours later the chick is removed to a brooder, where it begins to scratch for a living. There are thousands of them and all of them are chirping like so many birds in a forest on a bright sunny morning in May.
Mr. J.K. Blackwell, brother of Mr. J.H. Blackwell, our county agent, is manager of the hatchery, and not Mr. Crews as formerly stated. Mrs. Crews is devoting his time and attention to the Farmer’s Produce exchange. Mr. Blackwell, the manager, is a very pleasant gentleman and is thoroughly versed in poultry.
Consulting his watch the other day he pointed to the big incubator and remarked: “Here is a till that should be coming off right now,” and as he peeped through the little glass door we saw the little chicks bust their shells like pop corn in a hot skillet A few eggs refused to burst on schedule time, and manager Blackwell remarked that the fresher the egg, the sooner it is hatched.
Mr. Blackwell pointed out that a chick hatched by the event temperature of an incubator is much stronger than those hatched by the mother hen in uncertain temperature. There are no weaklings among the incubator chicks.
From the front page of the Oxford Public Ledger, March 4, 1924
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