The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-10-17
NEXT MEETING OF
POULTRY MEN MAY
Be IN COLUMBIA
SOUTHERN SHIPPERS AsSocIA-
TlON WILL MAKE SELECTION
WITHIN FEW DAYS.
ACCOMMODATIONS ARE AMPLE
Maury the Banner County Of the Ban
ner Section of Southern Poultry
Raisina-A. M. Cochran, Formerly
of Columbia, Secretary.

1t appears that the efforts of the
Board of Trade to secure the 1914
meeting of the Southern Poultry and
Egg Shippers meeting may bear fruit,
and certainly SO if the real claims of
this section can be brought properly
to the knowledge of the association
directors, who make the selection
This board of directors is composed
of shrewd business men and they are
to act in this matter the coming
week. Columbia parties Interested,
and all should be, have already taken
the preliminary steps necessary to as
sure the association of the ability to
properly entertain the meeting by Sc
curing the opera house, and making
sure of all ample hotel accommoda-
tions and banquet arrangements,
should Columbia be favored in the
vote.
A. NJ Cochran, formerly of this
place, a member of the Columbia
Produce Company, is the secretary of
the association and has expressed
himself as being anxious to have the
meeting in Columbia, and should
Memphis not be decided upon Co
lumbia is almost certain to be select
ed.
The association takes In the states
of Tennessee and Kentucky, and Maui
ry county is the largest poultry ship
ping county within the association
outside of the large cities. 1t is an
assembling point for shipment from
this section of Tennessee and Ala.
bama to the Tennessee river.
The BENEFITS to this section, which
is fast becoming vastly poultry and
producing section, would be almost
beyond comprehension, and there
would naturally follow contribute
ry benefit to the general trade.
The meetings are always attended
by large direct membership who
are looking principally after the bus
mess direct of egg and poultry ship
ping. There are as many associate
members representing eastern and
western houses, and the railroad com
panies.
In addition to these are always in
attendance men who deliver address
es that look to the promotion of the
poultry and egg industry. Among
these the United States government
always has a man who is ready and
anxious to answer all questions, as
well as deliver addresses on the pro-
grams. These meetings are always
open and the farmers and housewives
of the country who raise the chick
ems and gather the eggs can hear
these addresses and discussions. The
knowledge to them would be of vast |
benefit to this section in assisting in
the promotion Of the poultry industry
Columbia is easily accessible by
rail from every direction, is poultry
raising section the equal of which is
not to be found in the South, with the
rapidly increasing. AS an ev-
idence of this increasing interest ar
have already been made
by the dealers in Columbia to employ
a female poultry expert next spring
to make house to house canvass of
the county and section regarding the
removal of the male birds from the
flocks that produce the eggs for mar
kets. This matter has only been agi-
tated short time, and Columbia
dealers are absolutely the first that
are known to have taken steps to this