Miss Martha Flax Andrews and Mr. O.O. Dukes, county home and farm agents, are arranging through the state division of markets in Raleigh for a most interesting and profitable poultry project for the people of Robeson County, beginning January 15th and ending April 1st, just the months in which the farmers can devote their time to attending to poultry. Miss Andrews and Mr. Dukes give out the following in regard to this project:
“We are to receive on January 15th 10,000 baby chicks, all one age and all one breed, for an accredited hatchery, chicks free from disease, and strong and healthy. We are to keep these until April 1st, at which time we expect to make them weigh around 2 pounds, and then we have them engaged to a fancy trade in New York for a solid cr load, all same size and color. The car must be ready to go by April 1st and only the chicks which were brought in and grown according to instructions will be on this car. We figure an excellent experience and a good profit and desire to group these in lots of 500 to 20 farmers of the country who will prepare to care for them.
“We do not say every farmer must take 500 nor do we say he cannot have more than that, but we only suggest this as an ideal arrangement and a good way to get started in the poultry business during the leisure months on the farm.
Those interested should write or see Miss Andrews or Mr. Dukes at once as these chicks must be engaged within the next two months.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Oct. 12, 1925. The carload of chicks refers to a railroad carload. This project, put together by the county Cooperative Extension agents, put much-needed cash in the hands of farmers.
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