The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1922-03-23
THE COUNTY AGENTS
COLUMN
Poultry

Poultry
II may be interesting TO know that
Fulton county made the highest record
in the egg laying contest Of any county
in the state. Our highest record was Il
little better than p leggs per hen per
month. Good feeding was largely re-
sponsible for these results ! wish ev-
cry farmers wife in Fulton county
would keep II daily egg record. IL pays
10 see and to know just what your
lchickens are doing. They should aver
age $50 or more eggs per hen per year
| IL pays 10 keep purebred poultry. \
number of the purebred breeders (about
I4O) have joined the poultry association
land they have sold about 1000 setting
! eggs at the rate of 90c per setting. That
lis better than five times he market
price for eggs. In addition. Il number
lOf cOckerels and pullets have been sold
for breeding purposes. We now have
Ia poultry association at Fulton and one
lat Hickman ana both are making il
lpay. This is only a beginning. as we
Twill do more in the future Ii also
lpayS 10 organize.
Every purebrcd breeder in the coun-
ty should secure this spring either
high class male bird or some high class
much better than You have, and contin
ne TO build mp your flock. l want to
lwarn you To IL cautious in buying valu-
liable birds or valuable eggs When you
buy be sure that you are buying from
thigh producing strains. You are not
LATTER show birds half so much as you
ARE after high producing birds When
lyou buy please insist on official trap
nest records and don't be hoodwinked
by the fact that bird won blue rib
, bon at a show. You ale after eggs first
land pretty feathers second. Secure
some good high class birds this spring
by all means.
: Commodity Organization
. Commodity organization is the APP
: IplicatiOn Of business principles to the
marketing of farm products Commod-
= ity organization means that farmers
producing "a common product unite
themselves into an association for the
: purpose of comparatively marketing Il
/. standardized product. For instance
e the strawberry association will include
= all farmers growing Strawberries. and
they will be sold according to a stand
D lard grade Instead of each farmer
tselling his berries wherever ne can and
at whatever price he can get, there will
be one man who viii sell all the berries
and ne viii have "A number of buyers t.
I sell them to- The individual farmer
Twill have nothing To do wit hthe selling
I That will be in the hands of highly
g trained expert. The farmers market
d ing problem has always been one of dis
r tributiOn and standardization. Com
e modify organization is the only system
o lOf cooperative marketing that has uni
: fOrmly proven successful. If one doubt,
this let him buy an apple. an orange. q
- lemon. etc. and see if he does not pay
I Ia good price for il. Ii is always so
ltOo. year in and year out. Organiza
= Ition ON commodity basis origina ed
: in the fruit section of California. II
2 was tried in Our own state last year
q with hurley tobacco and proved "A com
Iplete success. II has been "a success
with strawberries for the past ten years
\ lin our own state. Many other instances
IcOuld be mentioned. We now have in
Fulton county our strawberry. sweet
I lpOtato and poultry associations and
before fall we will have dark tobacco
: association. The time is not far dis
liant when we will sell every product
! that is produced to any extent through
Fla commodity organization. We will
sell our cotton through cotton ex-
change. and. in short. apply common
sense business methods to our market
ing. distribution and Standardization of
Iproducts. When this is realized and il
z will be in the near future. farmers can
z produce their products with the assur-
: ance that reasonable profit may be
: realized. If one stops long enough to
think what progress has been made to-
9 ward these ends during the last three
s years he can only look forward toward
the future with optimism.
I'll o. l.. Cunningham.
Sl County Agent.