Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-12-22
Tells What State Aid Would
Mean to Chicken Industry
In Arkansas.
MILLIONS IN CHICKENS
Egg Supply Should Be Considered
Jefferson County is Up Among
the LEADERS in the Field.


ard hogs in the state. But they have
not counted or even mentioned the
one quick product Of the packing
house as we'll as the farmer. Namely,
Poultry. Maybe because there are so
few chickens in Arkansas.
Swift & Company and Armour Il
Company arc large dealers in poultry
and eggs and they have urged their
shippers 10 raise thoroughbred poul-
try: because their eggs are more uni
form and the carcass of thorough
bred is better and larger. The same
as short horn is better than mixed
scrub COW. There is being shipped in
to Pine Bluff about $500 in poultry
and eggs every day, and we ought TO
raise this, and ship that much our
selves. The packing house can help,
the county can help and the state can
help To-Day December 10TH 1917,
storage and country eggs are selling
in Pine Buff for thirty-five cents per
dozen retail A few fanciers are SELL
ing strictly guaranteed fresh eggs for
forty to fifty cents while in New York
and other cities strictly uniform fresh
eggs ave selling from 81 to ~ cents
per dozen. Some difference, some
chance for profit. Our farmers should
raise high grade poultry and handle
and ship properly, and get some OF
This extra price. 1t can be had 'Gy
following practical rules given every
day by poultry papers, shows and
fanoiers. Namely, we'll bred STOCK,
we'll fed and housed, clean nests.
gather eggs twice every day, caponize
all Young cookerels and crate, feed all
hens two years old ship or deliver all
eggs in uniform packages at least
twice per week BY doing this all can
get a better price for they give better
quality, end from May l to December
Z kill or confine all males, and then
keep eggs out of the sun until deliver
ed to consumers.
Our government has just issued a
bulletin stating the ROSTERS cost our
people fifty million dollars annually
from bad eggs. All could be saved
by killing or combining all males from
May / to December l.
The writer has often seen OH farms
in summer season half as many males
as hens; while one male to twenty or
twenty-five hens is sufficient.
Tnoroughbreds pay by weighing one
to two pounds more than common or
mixed chickens, and they lay just
about twice as many eggs.
The fancier and poultry shows are
helping some but progress IS glow IN
\ rkansas, because the farmers are
suspicious of the fancier. He thinks
the fancier is only thinking OF selling
him a high priced chicken, and he
thinks the fanciec has little or no real
knowledge ard 10 authority. A few
years ago, POSSIBLY about five years,
our neighEor state Missouri was about
fifth in the production of poultry pro-
ducts which amounted to thirty-flVe
million dollars rer year. Two years
ago the fancier got the legis lature to
appropriate twenty thousand dollars to
help the poultry business. They had
lectures, state shows and egg laying
contests. and now Missouri is first in
poultry products valued at over fifty
million dollars I.er year. Good Tor the
fancier. Another state helps her
poultry shows ty helping to pay prem
i1ms for they see it pays. The writer
hopes to see a bill passed by our leg
islature in January, 1918 to make an
appropriation of say five to ten
thousand dollars to lecture and dem
onstrate to the farmer and poultrymen
the best and proper methods directly
and in person on the farm. A copy
of such bill was published in No
yemher issue of the Arkansas Poultry
man and should be in the hands OF ev-
cry member of our legislature before
they meet.
This representative of the state
would have authority from the state
and our farmers would believe him
and follow his instructions just as our
Boys Corn Clubs are doing.
We would also like for this same
law to cover reasonable amount to
help a state poultry show every year
to pay premiums: say fifty percent OF
premiums at said sta e show not to ex-
iced five !iundraf dollars (Thls state
show to be held at spch place as may
be agreed upon BY the majority OF the
fanciers an. shows IN TIE state). The