The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03
COMMUNITY CLUB
GAINING FAVOR
Each Member Can Work Out
Problems in Direct Co-opera-
ton With His Neighbors.
HAPHAzARD WAYS REPLACED
Fowls OF General Purpose Type Are
Most Popular-Advisabie for Farm
ers to Get Backing of Local
Business Men.

When one speaks of Petaluma, Cal,
his imagination Immediately pictures
tiocks of single-comb White Leghorn
hens. The mention of the Little
Compton district Of Rhode Island is
synonymous with Rhode Island Reds.
while Vineland, n. J., spells single |
comb White Eeghorns to poultryInen
Community Capitalization for the pro,
motion and improvement of one breed
of poultry in each Of these cases has.
resulted in the development of extern
sive and profitable poultry industries.
The United States department of ag-
riculture commends the idea to other
communities.
One Standard for Community Hens.
Boys and girls poultry clubs in,
various sections of the country have
been an education 20 both young and
cid and have acted as pioneers for
the subsequent formation of eommu-
nifty poultry breeding associations.
Each member is interested in the bet
terment of one breed and can work
/ out his local problems in direct co
/ operation with his neighbors, the com
mon interest of the locality being CEN
tered in the Improvement of this
breed. With the growth of the bust
| ness the district soon becomes known
as a source of large supplies of fowls
| and eggs for market, eggs for hatch
/ ing, breeding stock and day-old chicks.
| Increased interest in the farm hens
! and the practice of approved poultry
management always replace the pre-
vious haphaZard, shiftless methods OF
handling fowls after the cooperative
community club has been organized.
The Farmville (Va.) Barred Ply
mouth Rock association is an interest
ing example of what can be accom-
plished in community hen raising.
/ During the first five months of its his
tory this organization sold $500
worth of poultry products. The club
has now been Incorporated with CAPT.
tai stock of $500, and hires man.
ager to handle its business affairs
The last report from this association
shows that the members had on hand
6.008 Barred Plymouth Rock hens
while they had marketed 1000 capons
during the spring.
Seventeen counties in Kentuck,
have organized community poultr,
/ clubs recently and have distributed
4 $4,000 eggs among their members TO
$ the foundations of one-breed fiocks
Q Christian county, Kentucky, has al
ready established itself as a Whit
Leghorn district.
Hens for Community Clubs.
The fowls of the general-purpos
type, such as Plymouth Rocks, Wyan
popular for the use OF communit
< poultry clubs. Most of the member
d of the associations are farmers VIII
Z wish to raise dual-purpose fowl whic
= are adapted for both egg and mea
: production. However, some specia
j purpose egg clubs have been formed
" such as the Franklin county Virginia
ID White Leghorn association, compose
of 70 members, which markets its egg
in New York. There are six sinila
~ White Leghorn county clubs in Tel
nessee, which also ship their eggs
| New York.
How to Start Club.
In organizing q community poultr
club it is always advisable for ii
farmers to get the backing of the loc'
business men. Generally when Il
- tradesmen are shown that the ''ge
together hen club" will be an agricu
tnral asset to the community they Al
not remiss about aiding the ente
prise. Funds secured from the bus
ness men may be devoted to the pa
chase of purebred stock for distrib
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