Wednesday, January 15, 2025

6th Grader Martha Reaves Makes $230 Profit on Her Turkey-Raising Project, Jan. 15, 1925

Poultry Project Pays. . . Pupil in Negro School Has Big Success with Turkeys

Martha Reaves, a pupil in the sixth grade of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill’s negro institution, has made an unusual success with her turkey-raising project, a task which she undertook in connection with her school work.

She started two years ago with three turkeys. When the second year ended, she had 54. They were sold in Chapel Hill and Durham at prices ranging from $3.74 for the smallest to $10 for the largest. Altogether, the flock brought $270. After deducting $17.50 for the cost of food and $22.50 for labor (estimated 75 hours at 30 cents an hour), the net profit came to $230.

The girl’s father, Joseph Reaves, has a 54-acre farm, and on this she had a small plot of ground on which to grow foodstuffs for her turkeys.

B.L. Bozeman, principal of the school, says that projects such as this, carried on by pupils at their homes, are affording proof of the value of the training the boys and girls receive in the agriculture classes.

From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 15, 1925

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