Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-11
HOLLIS FORT HEADS
POULT TRYMEN
TO ESTABLISH MARKET
Temporary Organization Formed
With Another Meeting Called
For Next Friday Morning
OTHER SECTIONS EXPANL
Poultry in Marshall County, Ala,
Rapidly Becoming Import
ant Money Crop

ant Money Crop
AZ a meeting of AmerlcUs and
Sumter county poultry men Friday
in the offices of the Chamber of
Commerce, temporary organiza-
ton was effected with Hollis Fort
as president and John Wise, of Sum
ter precinct, vice president. George
0. Marshall, county farm demon
stration agent, acted as secretary
at the meeting and will keep the rec
ords Of the association. Present az
the meeting were poultry men from
Leslie, Plains, Shiloh, Sumter and
the vicinity Of Americus, and the
meeting next Friday morning will
be held at 1890 in the Chamber Of
Commerce offices.
President Fort, speaking of the
organization today told a Times-Re-
corder man that one point he want.
ed to impress upon poultrymen
throughout the county is that the
organization effected is temporary
only, and that at the meeting next
Friday steps will be taken to get as
many interested as possible.
1t is planned, he said, to have as
many as will serve in various places
of responsibility in connection with
the organization, the effort being to
develop a commercial poultry indus
try here, and to establish Americus
as market for poultry and poultry
products, with arrangements made
to enable poultry raisers to sell their
products here for cash at all times.
Another important point Mr.. Fort
asked the Times-Recorder to i'm
press upon poultry raisers is that
there are no dues or fees of any
kind to be paid before affiliation
with the association, and that no
added expense will be incurred
through membership therein.
81 have Just returned from a trip
through the chicken country In
Tennessee and Alabama" said Mr.
Fort, "and | wish that every farmer
and suburban resident of Sumter
coonty could have been with me and
seen what the poultry industry has
done, and is doing, for the farmers
in these two states. Poultry can be
raised at a profit here-and at a
good profit, too-if farmers and su-
burban residents would only inter
est themselves in the effort.
'In Mitchell county Alabama, the
poultry industry, l was told while
there recently, has raised the mort
gage off half the farms there, and
more farmers in that section have a
bank account now than ever before
in the history of the section, due
almost entirely to profits made by
raising poultry and selling poultry
products Over there they are sell
ing poultry in carlots and the indus
try has assumed such proportions
until the railroads are operating
special poultry cars, in which an un-
usually large quantity of poultry
may be transported.
The demand for poultry and
poultry products, l was told, is very
active, and q few weeks ago prices
were at a peak not attained even
during the period of high prices III
cident to the recent war. AS a re-
suit the industry there is expanding
with farmers-some of
them-preparing to raise poultry as
their chief money crop, and cotton
to be produced as a side line.
"There are some essentials to the
poultry industry however that farm
ers must learn before they can raise
and sell these products to the best
If we are going to go
into the poultry business, we should
move intelligently along proven
lines, profiting by the experience
of others who have made a success
in similar ventures, and if this be
done | am fully persuaded Sumter
county farmers and Americus rural
residents can easily double their
present farm incomes through rails
ing few thousand birds and mar
keting poultry products here.
"The establishment Of a creamery
here this fall should form an import
ant link in the creation of a sub
stantial poultry industry at Ameri-
Gus, as buttermilk is considered the
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