The first carload of poultry to ever be shipped from Martin County will be loaded nest Tuesday, March 23rd.
County Agent T.B. Brandon formerly shipped with Mr. Welch, county agent of Beaufort, but the shipments have become so great that Martin County poultry will be shipped in the future from Williamston.
The prices to be paid are better than at any time before. They follow:
All hens, 24 ½ cents per pound.
Cocks, 12 cents per pound.
Broilers, 45 cents per pound
Ducks, 20 cents per pound
Geese, 15 cents per pound
Guineas, 35 cents each.
These prices are conclusive evidence that money can be made on poultry. A clean house, built closely enough that the chickens will not suffer, is the only requisite for poultry raising in the winter in this section. Those who had chickens hatched during December and January will receive quite handsome profits on their product.
Every one-horse farm should have 200 chickens. If every one did, there would not be such a hard struggle to make ends meet and so many dependent upon time prices.
With the State department ready to help market them ago good prices, every farmer should cull his flock, sell the old ones in this car load, get good eggs for the spring hatching and get a new start.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., Tuesday, March 16, 1926
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