His PRODUCE A TENTH OF FARM a INCOME IN U. S. A. E S -- ' '2 More Thar. One-Third of Whole World's Poultry Found in Thi* p. Country. Chickens Raised on More Than 86 Fcr Cent, of the Farms- ^ industry Developed from Modest ;s Beginning. j a Bv CALEB JOHNSON 1 a' As in almost everything else, the ( f, United States leads the world in pooltry and egg production. . ?e Poultry are raised everywhere \v; ^ the world. Everybody eats eggs. Butj one-third of all of the world's domes-; ? tic poultry are in this country. We j n have five hens to every human being . J which is a very much higher propov a tion than is to be found anywhere else. p This is one branch of agriculture that is not confined re farms. As c\- \ ervbody knows, residents of villages and of the suburbs of cities are as; v frexiuently as not found keeping ;l "back yard ' flocks of poultry. Somc-!^ thing more than half a million such j j backyard flocks are estimated by the Federal Department of Agriculture. -u which has computed the total num- n her of farm flocks at -r> 1-- million, or a total of about 6,000,000 flocks i r>1 B?alf- m , ..: ;>? Poultry is raised on more than oh; per cent, of the farm.- of the coun-; j., try. About 85 per cent of the 1 owlsj yv are raised on general farms in flocks! -u of 50 to -400 hens, principally in the | ^ ?rain-producing north centra! states. ; p, The number ef chickens on farmsi jr in 1920 was about 4 12,000.000. with ly a value of $103,000,000- The income t-r from chickens and egj.> amounted to | jr about 10 per cent, of all farm income ; 0] In 1928. being estimated at 87 5 7.- ; ^ *000.000 for eggs and S 158.000.09i v for chickens, or a total of $1,1*--, j sj (t00,OOP out of a total income b.C 1 ^ 81 1,827.000,000 from farm nrodi;c-i,r' tion. Poultry products were exceed-ij-, cd in value in the year 192S oniy *_t by four other farm producers?cornA* milk, swih? and cotton. Over 2,500. .. 000,000 dozen eggs and more than | ^ 500,000,0( are produced an-; ^ r.ually. ; 0 The omjitry ndushy of the United j ()( States represents oa the one hand a,,,, c idely distributed enterprise supple-: mental to general farming jthd on' the other hand a high, degree of spe-j,., eialization in commercial plants, in v, piodPcing centers near the larger eities on tne Atlantic seaboard and in .j the Pacific ("oast States of Oiiltfor al hi, .Oregon and Washington. there. J|; are aiyuis in whici'h commerccial pool- aj .try " roouciion predominates. In oth- "j; e.r localities the keeping of poultry for breeding scock and for the production of tiggs for iialciiing i.- ini-j (J.( portant. the bab\ chicks being s<>ld j a, ?to?_thu.?o . wiia.. konii- hoMi largo "i small flocks for commercialized egg v production. ; r. FEE AND F1 at Rock-Boti ?Our line of high grade is the most complete sin( business here. We hai: the Statesville and Pini immense output of these our carload buying enc P customers the lowest pr entire section. B We can supply your evei also feature high grade and regular grade No. prices are low, and the A complete line of Per | eral 1 ires and Tubes is for the convenience of ' I better tires are xnanufac the prices at which we c duplicated in this sectioi A small amount of high remains on our floor, \ We invite the people of call on us when in town. I are superior in quality ; in price. We solicit your CASH FLOUR &F1 ' GF.ORCE V. McCIM Depot Street * ==- - Throughout The farre-pfoductloi reais as well as Sjg the commercia ouitry districts are many high!; >ecialized egg-packing plants, poui y-feeding ?r.d slaughtering plant? pultry canning plants, and egg breal ig plants, while cold-storage wart base's arc devoted to an importau ctent to the storing of poultry pro acts. Although the industry is made u mnariiv of producers and handler f chickens and chicken eggs, th iirkey. duck and goose productio: also important. Few producers ar 5 wideiv distributed and consume 5 poultry and eggs. The poultry industry has dcvelope rom a small beginning when the firs ?tfcleis brought fowls to North Am rica, and the production of peultr L>r meat and eggs has been an ini ortant source of food supply for th ities for over 100 years. The con: lercial development of plants dc oted to poultry raising alone bega bout 1870. and thereafter increase t ten tier, was given t?> breeding fee ig and management. In about 187 landards were developed and i 871 the first standard of perfectioi as printed- Beginning about th ear IS00, hatching in incubators o: large scale developed and in 101 ic International Baby Chick Asso iatioii was organized. In the early history of the poultr; ldustry the egg market offered th< lain stimulus to better methods. Ii lis land of abundant meat, supplies :^gs were more of a luxury thai mitiy. Until the development of col< :orage. marketing was limited by thi tck of means of preservation. Egg ere often preserved by immersioi i uiiiewaier anu were sometime: reserved in icehouses. As facilitie pcame available. cblri storage cami lib more general use as a means o reserving the surplus production o it- Spring months for cons'imptioi i summer and fall. The introduction f the ^0-dozen egg case to displao \e barrel! as a package for eggs hi eh occurred about 1SS0, was ; deiable economy. The producllot f dressed poultry for market *?va really stimulated by the use of re "iteration for transpoi ration an< oragc. Poultry raising occupies an impor rat place in the organization oj ovlh American farms. Not only i uu'tiy raised en about 1K> per cen f the farms, but on many farm iuitry products are line of the bes living products. The value of eggs represents abou 7 per cent and the value <*!' pouHr: eat abVJu'. Id per cent of the lota due of ail poultry products. Chick us contribute about ?5 per cent, o le value of all poultry products am t*e the only class of poultry raise > ctepsiyely fov the production of egg l! other classes being raised primal' y for ii ?- production of meat. rilf vou' won't Iiare anyihhiy ?ui< si'lo for a rainy day'' T? A1 y ._<}if.slCfu.is-_lt>a: jod. U1 ith work that I've put aside- lo^Sa linv day." ;ds LOUR torn Prices feedstuffs and flour :e the openinn of our 4-U J . r lug piuaucts or nacle Mills, and the : plants coupled with ibles us to give our ices to be had in this ry want in feeds, and . : short patent Flour 1 plain. Our flour quality outstanding, msylvania and Fedcarried at all times our customers. No tured than these and >ffer them cannot be i. grade fertilizer still vhich is attractively Watauga County to Our feeds and flour md decidedly lower patronage. SED COMPANY SEY, Manager Boone, N. C. TKF. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVI | ''Mercy" Slayer d _ Andrew L. Beers, ! Walton. X. Y.. d 78. who killed his imbecile daughter] 3 branccs. 2/, put of pity for her helpn 1( s* ?- ?nriitioQ. ti c !;' Coal Operator Would Stop Radio Programs To Change Weather 1 ; Washington.'?Radio waves have about as much effect on the weather j I?or possibly less?than light waves L, | have on glass, in the opinion of scisI entists and engineers here recently ,|in discussing the proposal of a West s Virginia coal operator to close down s all broadcasting stations for sixty p days in an effort to break the severe f drought. f Y. Ford Greaves, a Federal Radio 1 i ponirnissidn engineer and a leading authority on radio science, explained: ,' "There is no disturbance in the air i as the result of the passage of radio G w aves from the transmitting stations to the receiver, i "Of course the radio waves pass everywhere, air, clouds, buildings } and ether, but it may he said that if the energy generated by all of the radio stations in the world were conL centra ted it would not, equal the 'force Ij. of a rainstorm." , Greaves pointed ou? that from time ^ to time throughout history there have . been blighting droughts, many of! which exceeded in destruction that i t which now has assume d the proper-! tipns of a national calamity. In the! \ earlier drought.- there were no radio j stations to transmit impulses through f the ether, j Greaves said: "Scientists and engineers would s not -say that anything was impossible perhaps, yet it is hardly probable that the drought can he attributed to radio waves." t There appears to he some analogy j between radio and Sound waves. A sound wave passing from point to j u point does not disturb the atmos-j until it strikes some receptive obje< t such as the ea?L drum, " Similarly the radio wave does not become a source of energy until it comes in contact with receiving apparatus by which it is transformed into sound or light, as in the case of visual radio. OBITUARY , The Sllhiect nf thi*; u-nc Eliza Greene, whose maiden name was Brown, and who was the daugh-' ter of Richard and Polly Brown. She was horn August 16th, 1856, and died May 2nd, lt'SO, aged 72 years 8 months and 16 days. She professed faith in Christ early in life and joined Meat Camp Baptist Church, October 27th, 1871. She later moved her membership to Zionville Baptist Church where she lived a faithful member until death. She was married to Manly Greene, July 8th, 1876, and to this union | were horn two children, I> I.. Greene of Meat Camp, and M?s. \Y. E. Setzer of Boone. Mr. and Mrs. Greene settled on Meat Camp mam years ago where they built a nice humble home, and started on life's pathway. This writer well remembers Ids first visit and the kind hospitality shown in this home by Mrs. Greene, and tin- open-hearted welcome extended. We remember the family Bible and its place in the home, when once in this home you had a desire to visit it again, for she made you feel at home. Mrs. Greene was a faithful, true and devoted wife, a good mother and | a mother that loved her. children andi did what, she could to teach and train j them with car Other WE HA\ \ \ "A Tria : ' . , ... I . 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