The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-03-04
POULTRY CLUB TO
BE ORGANIZED
Kiwanians Push Move for Bet
ter POultry-Boy Scouts
to Improve Playground.

Wednesday the Kiwanis Club met
at the Inez Hotel for luncheon with
c. B. Perkins, president, presiding.
j. H. McCarty, representing S.
Moskowitz and Company of Tupelo,
Miss, was introduced by Mr.. Perkins,
and made a talk on the raising and
marketing of poultry. Mr. McCarty
said that Plymouth Rock and gray
and light Brahmas were the most
desirable for marketing because they
will weigh 5 or pounds when grown
and there is better market for this
weight. He stated that the Chica-
go Board of Trade will discriminate
against Leghorns because of light
weight and will pay 4 or cents per
pound for them. Farmers can sell
spring chickens when they weigh
from l to l Il pounds Broilers bring
35 cents to Accents per pound. When
chickens pass the pound and a quar-
ter weight it is more profitable to
hold them until they weigh from 2
to 21s pounds. Roosters should be
sold May first to insure infertile
eggs through summer, as their keep
ing qualities are superior to those of
fertile eggs. Eggs should be care
fully selected and put in clean cot
tonwood boxes. Small and irregular
shaped eggs should be used for home
consumption.
Last week the Tupelo firm repre-
sented by Mr.. McCarty shipped
chickens to the value of $4,000 and
eggs worth $1,000. New York City
and Havana, Cuba were their best
markets.
The best way to educate people in
poultry raising is through the coun-
ty papers, the speaker stated.
Henry H. Legett, County Demon
stration Agent, stated that chicken
raising and dairying can be pursued
together to advantage. 1t was his
opinion that if the merchants and |
Kiwanis Club would take an inter-
est in this phase of farming and help
the farmers put it over" the move
ment to develop the industry would,
be successful. He suggested a meet
irg of representative farmers from
the different district with the XII
wants Club and the forming of poul-
try association. Mr.. Legett said
that he had literature on poultry
raising for free distribution.
Mr.. I. Abrams, who successfully
deals in poultry and eggs as side
line, embodied Mr.. Legett's sugges-
tions in a motion which was passed
by the club.
F. F. Becker of the Brookhaven
Creamery, said that his concern had
become interested in poultry as a
because the low price
paid for hogs made the feeding to
them of skinned milk less profitable
than formerly. Poultry gives the
best returns for SKINNED milk fed
them.
He expressed the opinion that the
poultry industry would be success
if the farmers employ improved
methods.
Mr.. Becker told of the praises of
Brookhaven he heard from business
men of Natchez while he was a guest
there for the purpose of describing
the dairy industry. He was proud
to tell Natchez citizens of the $4,000
given the Municipal Band and $1,000
for the Boy Scouts, both gifts being
promoted by the Kiwanians.
]. c. Burns, farmer of District 4,
told the Kiwanians he had found cot
ton and public work unsatisfactory,
had gone into poultry raising in con-
junction with other farm activities
and was now making from $500 to
5000 per year from a flock of 200
hens. He said his profit on eggs was
about 25 cents per month per hen.
He has sold broilers to the St.
Charles Hotel in New Orleans for as
much as SIS cents per pound. While
others were receiving only rs cents
per dozen for eggs, a New Orleans
firm paid him 40 cents per dozen for
eggs known to be of high quality and
fit for hospital patients.
r. B. Wall made a report on Boy
Scout activities stating that $917 Of
the subscribed $1,000 was in hand
Mr.. Wall, Scout Leader, is preparing
to put the scouts to work at improv-
ing the Municipal Fairgrounds, as an
outdoor sport. He is planning vol
ley ball, physical culture and swim
ming for colder boys" UP to the age
of 112. he told the Kiwanians.