Mrs. Fay Varner of Whittier community bought 250 White Leghorn baby chicks in March of last year, 1924. From these 250 chicks, 200 pullets were raised and started laying some of the last of September at 6 months old. These chicks were raised in a brooder house with a brooder and less than 20 of the 250 died. Of course, the 200 left were half cockerels, leaving 200 pullets. These pullets were placed in a good standard laying house at five months old and fed on laying mash and scratch feed regularly with some butter milk and feed. It has been about 12 months now since these pullets started laying. Besides an abundance of legs for home use, Mrs. Varner has already sold over $300 worth of eggs. County Agent Tilson says the purebred hens and the proper housing and feed are the main factors in Mrs. Varnors’ success.
Right now she is planning on starting half a dozen dairy cows in order to sell cream and market the skim milk thru her hens. An abundance of skim milk will cut down the feed tremendously and increase the egg production of any flock.
From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Wednesday, September 23, 1925. The newspaper article spelled the last name Varner and Varnor. I’ve typed it up using both spellings.
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