The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-04-28
ABOUT POULTRY RAISING
Hon. L. L. Bowman of GreenviIle,
Texas, In His Home Paper
FIGURES THAT WILL STARTLE UN|NFORMEO
Poultry and Eggs Shipped Out Worth
More Than All Kinds of Live
Stock SHIPPED Out For Food

Below is a letter written by MIR. L.
L. Bowman, of G"eenville. Texas, and
published in the Greenville (TeX.
Banner. Mr.. Bowman is Superinten-
dent of the poultry department of the
North Texas Fair. He was at one
time at the head of our city schools
and has many friends here. Now he
is prominent attorney of Greenville.
What he writes about poultry will
doubtless be read with much interest
by poultry breeders of this county:
did you ever see farmer when he
was feeding his hogs throwing chunks
at the hens, waving his arms and
'ShOoing' and cuSSing like sailor
every time one of them got grain of
corn? He has never studied hen queS-
tiOnS much or he would take as much
pleasure in feeding hens as hogs. The
hen is far ahead OF the hog in the
question of money brought to the
pocket of the producer, but very few
people believe it, or act as if they did.
For some time we have watched
with constantly increasing interest
the wholesale poultry business cOnduc-
ted by A. A. Patterson & Co., of this
city. At'my request Mr.. Patterson
has furnished me the information
given below relating to the Car load
shipments by his firm. These are not
the feveriSh workings of mind un-
'balanced,b by malignant case of hen
tfever, but facts taken from shipping
records, and refer solely to car load
shipments. Local shipments in less
than car load shipments are. not con-
>Sidered.
Poultry and eggs shipped from
'Greenville last year were worth more
on the markets where sold and to the
producer than all other kinds of live
stock shipped from Greenville or Hunt
county r!f0od stuff.
From March |. 1905, to March /,
1906, Patterson & Co. shipped a. car
loads of eggs, averaging 400 cases To
car, or Is, 900 cases. that run 80 dozen !
to the case, or. 564, 900 dozen. for
which he paid an average or 13 cents, |
or S73, 320. 1t would require 90. 900
of the average farm hens of the mon
grel type to lay this number of eggs |
You can t grasp in your nature that |
number, but you might get IA faint |
idea if you were to think of all of them |
in your back yard cacklng at once
During the same length Of time |
the firm shipped 46 car loads Of live
poultry, consisting almost entirely of |
chickens, averaging $4,000 pounds to
the car, or S23, 600 pounds, for which |
was paid an average price of 81 cents
per pound, or SO, $50: car loads of |
turkeys, averaging Is, 900 pounds per
car, for which was paid IL cents per
pound, or S. 200; 6 car loads dressed
turkeys, averaging 10000 pounds per
car, for which was paid IL cents per
pound, or Sl3, 200, and four car loads
of dressed poultry, averaging 10000
pounds per car, for which was paid
81 cents per pound, or sll. 400. These
shipments total for the year from
March /, 1905, to March, Il, 1906, 1O7
car loads, Sl75, 600, or the equivalent
OF 3,5IO bales Of 10 cent cotton, or of
1850 225-pound A. cent hogs
Two car loads of feathers from the
dressed poultry were also shipped dur
ing the time above mentioned
In the above figures, as before
stated, L have lot considered the local
shipments, which are at conservative
estimate 10 per cent G the car
toad lots. or ST., $50. From the mer-
chants of the town | have been able
to estimate fairly we'll the daily local
consumption of eggs. l could not get 6
data for an estimate on fowls cOnSum-
d. There are at least II cases of eggs
sod each day, Sundays excluded, or
lls,60O dozen, for which is paid to the |
producer SIS, 785. and safe estimate {
wou I'D be 10, 600 for all kinds of poul-
try bcally; totaling s43, 535, which, !
added to the sl75, 500 above, gives
$219, G35. I
Ills much is almost entirely the