The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-28
FARM COMMENT

by r. H. JETEK
II any person in North Carolina
has cause to feel downcast over
government ineptitude and bureau
cratic methods it's Roy Bears
tyne, head Of the poultry depart
ment for the Experiment Station
at State College. Mr.. Dearstyne
has spent over 20 years at hard,
efficient work trying to steer the
farmers Of North Carolina towards
an interest in poultry. He has not
gone out and. in extravagant
terms, praised the poultry growing
industry and promised every man
an Independent income from =
year or so of growing and selling
chickens and eggs. He has worked
with the feed mixing people to
see that they sell the kind Of feed
that makes the best broiler or
causes a hen to produce the most
eggs. He has worked with the
hatcheries to get them to use only
the best blooded chicks and to see
that the eggs for Matching these
chicks came only from purebred
hocks Of chickens, grown under
sanitary conditions, free Of disease
and with high potentialities for
production. He has worked with
the fanciers and breeders to see
that they develop only those high
producing birds that will pay a
profit to the farmers who feed
and care for them.
In his offices at the State College
he has q disease laboratory in
which poultry troubles are dag
nosed and remedies recommend
ed. Out at his poultry plant on the
college farm, he keeps more rec
ords than a Washington office. But
Roy knows what his birds are do
ing and when he scatters breeding
stock and Matching eggs out over
the state, as he does constantly he
knows exactly what is back Of that
stock.
He has developed hens that
laid over 1000 eggs in their life
time and many others that 60 be-
You'd the 300 mark year. The
families of those birds which have
this high annual production and
long life are the kind to have on
the farms of the state. Through the
extension specialists, county az
ents, and vocational teachers, good
farmers are rapidly learning these
facts about scientific handling Of
poultry.
"It has seemed that all Of our
years Of combined labor in trying
to find and teach the facts Of
successful poultry growing in
North Carolina reached its full at
tainment last year" Roy says. II
went out to help hold numerous
poultry short courses over the
state and was amazed and pleased
at the kind of questions the PEG.
pie asked. It showed that they
knew their poultry. Again this year
/ have gone out and the people
show still more progress. They
know how to grow and handle
poultry. We are ready, as 4 state,
to 60 ahead as one of the great
poultry producing sections Of this
nation.
"For instance, last year, we
ranked tenth among the states OF
the union in broiler production
producing II, 600, 900 birds and ex.
ceeded only by Delaware, Mary.
land, Virginia, Georgia, and Tex
as in the order named: Last year,
we raised "a, 900 birds on ou1
farms which is an increase Of 124
per cent over 1912 and IA pc,
cent over the average Of the past
ten years. California is thought o.
as a great, intensive poultry-grow
ing state and is often held up to
us as an example. However, las1
year California produced 26,080,
600 birds - nearly 900, 600 less thar
we did. Apparently we can be
thought Of as great poultry-grow
ing state, Also"
But, this wonderful record o.
chicken raising after SO many
years Of steady work in trying t
bring it all about is not the cause
Of Roy's grief. His grief il tina
ceiling prices have been placed OF
poultry meat and that the smar
boys in Washington do not even at
tempt to consider, it appears, tn,
ratio between the prices the grow
er must pay for feed and the pric.
he is allowed for chickens. RICH
now, broiler growers are cancelinl