The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-06-28
MAURy COUNTY'S
POULTRY INTERESTS
UNDER cAMPAR|SON
MANY FANCY BREEDERS IN THE
COUNTY AND THE MONGREL
ON THE RUN.
IMPROVEMENT IN ALL Lines
Increase In the Output Of the Poultry
and Eggs Together With the oual.
ity OF the Product Discussed Com.
mercially.

Maury county has gained world
wide fame for her production of pac
ing horses, and is also considered and
recognized as one of the greatest
mule markets in the country.
Ranking next in importance is the
poultry industry, and the output Of
poultry and eggs. Taking up first the
breeding of fancy poultry in the coun.
ty, it will be easily seen that the thor.
oughbred fowl is gaining at rapid
rate, and the mongrel fast disappear.
irg. Flocks of nearly II of the lead.
ing varieties will be found. The Ply.
mouth Rocks, the Wyandottes, Or.
pingtons, Leghorns, Rhode Island
Reds and Minorcas, all rank high in
the county. Each year at our county
fair can be seen on exhibition the
very purest and best types OF these
breeds, and they always win a fair
percentage of the prizes when cxhib'
tied at other points in the state and
in the South Maury county birds
have been exhibited from Charleston
to Memphis; from Louisville to Mont.
gomery, and have been consistent
winners wherever shown.
Maury county is can ideal place for
the fancier, and it is not an exception.
al thing for fowls to be sold by the
local breeders at very fancy prices,
Commercially investigation has
brought out the fact that since the
thoroughbred fowl has made its ap'
pearance in the county the output OF
eggs has increased almost double,
and The quality of the product has al.
SO improved and commands better
price on the markets.
. Columbia has three produce houses
Nit. Pleasant one, Culleoka one, and
> perhaps there are others in the coun'
. t., which ship out annually thousands
, of dollars worth of eggs to the East
EN- market, and the prices paid here
: are always in excess of the figures 10
!, other Middle Tennessee towns, due to
= the superior brooding of the laying
= fowls, and the output is increasing
with each year.
- Besides the many produce houses
il. operation in the county there is
regular net work of produce wagons
gathering eggs and chickens for the
various stores at the different points,
!. Dressed poultry has, too, become
\ very important feature of the Mau'
~ county produce trade, the Iapld
growth of this feature of the indus
r. try has been almost marvellous, and
the dea .ers are ready to attribute lnls
to the very superior quality OF the
fowls that have come onto the mar
at Eet DUNG the very recent past
tn brought about by the breeding OF fan
in cg fowls in the county. The dressed
nl- fowls stand grading, whereas the
nd live one does not, and realizing tna'
the. grade here is of superior char
re acter, the shippers here dress ths
re fowls and take the superior grading
thus getting a better price THAI @
M shipping the live bird.
on 'The superior grade of turkeys
.se also notable feature. CommlssUu
ou nen from the East invade the counV
Ter early each season and engage all 'n'
Ike turkeys they can, contracting at VnS'
I'M, would in other places be fancy prlceA
rs, Maury county easily takes plac'
Ia, among the leading counties in u'
81. state in the commercial value OF "
Der poultry products, and within its OUT
ne. d.rs will be found some of the nue.
no ardent admirers and successful Oree'
you rs in the state.