Poultry raising is beginning to get started in North Carolina. Farm people are beginning to see that poultry handled with the same care that is given crops pays as much as crops.
We want to see more poultry farms in Cabarrus county, and more pure-bred fowls on these farms. There is money in the business. One Clevland County man, who has passed the experimental stage, says he sold 300 broilers last year for 94 cents. It had cost him 34 cents to raise them. That’s not a bad profit.
In this connection it is of interest to know that Wayne County has hired a fulltime poultry expert to devote his entire time to the leadership of the movement in that county. The Goldsboro News has the following to say about the movement:
“What the poultry industry will eventually mean in Wayne County and in the state at large can be had from a comparison of the industry in North Carolina at present.
“Nebraska has only one-half the population that North Carolina has and a climate that makes poultry raising much more difficult than in this state, but in 1925 Nebraska produced $32, million worth of chickens and eggs, as compared with North Carolina’s $20 million.
“With the population of North Carolina twice as much as that of Nebraska—not to mention the all-important matter of climate—our state should have atleast produced $64 million last year. For we are days nearer the eastern markets than is Nebraska.
“V. W. Lewis of the state division of markets makes some interesting observations that are timely to readers of The News in that Wayne is now taking the lead in the industry of the State:
“If the average flock in North Carolina were doubled, which then would make but 54 hens to a farm—the 1920 census gives but 27 head to a farm—and if the average hen produced twice as many eggs, which is possible with proper attention, this state could increase its egg crop four times. Then, by using artificial incubation, the commercial poultry crop could easily be advanced far beyond what it now is. With the state marketing work going on for the last five years, and the disease control work now offered the poultrymen of the state, it looks as if the state could attain a poultry industry worth $100 million a year in the next 15 years. That is what the State should strive for.”
From the editorial page of the Brevard News, Sept. 18, 1926
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