C T O Minton owner of Champion Poultry Farm, the South’s largest, looks over this purebred white leghorn cockerel with an appraising eye. Tom Bm-
ron-; sti-ain of English white leghorns are the only breed on Champion Poultry Farm wWch now has a daily output u^lo^ted K
1 r I Af two sceiies which show only a part of the many larjre buildings on the large farm, which is located la
lite leghorns are the only breed on Champion rouiiry rarm, wnicn now nas a aauy ouipui ui ^ \ le
breakfast for a whole army division. At right are two scenes which show only a part of the many Wge buildings on the large
miles west of this city in the hills of Wilkes. Champion Poultry Farm is one of the Souths outstanding agricultural enterprises. *>y Ben N. Patrick,
official nhotogranher of the Advertising Bureau of North Carolina State Department of Conservation and Development, Raleigh W.
60.000
— / r j £ II 1 Q ». wisely In takins a poultry short | One brooder house can accorao-
pion hpn» spell bad news fo^eggs—ro^ for » course r.t North Carolina State!date 30,000 chicks at one time.
College. iwhen It ms constructed in 1936,
it was the’>.largest In the country
By DWIGHT NIOHOUS „„„
Cackle! Cackle! Cackle! Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohj^'fighting forces and those of
'•The blending strains from and their gangs. our allie*^^^ „ . r7
* 30,00ft Cham-1 Becuuse-lhe -^*^*"®^ F-r«,
OjNl.\’ OMi: .BKJi:BD—
Then he purchased the I.tD
white leghorn chicks, of the Tom
Minton purchased 150 chicks Barron English strain.
OVER 500 ACREfi— -ft ■ j dition, there are other farm lands
The farm which was 46 acres,which produce seiue of the^
Is 1983 ’;sas and now tremendnus amount of grmla,
contains over BOjf^dSSres. In ad-i (Coqgnned an page eight)
—-Chaniiott Poultry
which began 'when
Farm,
T. O.
in 1923, gives Wilkes county
and North Carolina an. im
portant first—it is the larg
est poultry farm in the south
and possibly the largest any
where.
Thi.s biggest of chicken and
places IS produciiiE daily
enough eggs for breakfast for an
entire army division.
egg
^•.\ST ENTERBRISK—
Champion Poultry Farm is u
va.st enterprise. It is.so big that
a person who reads these facts
yet can hardly believe them with
out seeing. '
-\nd you cannot see all the farm
et one time, because it is spread
over several Wildes hills at
Champion, fifteen miles west of
North Wllkesboro and 1 1-2 miles
south of highway 4 21.
BlTliT WITH PROFITS—
Another striking^ fact about the
large poultry farm' is that it was
built without outside capital.
A few years after he returned
from serving In World War 1. Mr.
Minton purchased .150 chickens
with borrowed money.
That was the initial capital.
Profits from the farm have re
paid the original capital loan and
hare made It into one of Wilkes
county’s leading agricultural en
terprises, one which has attracted
nation-wide attention. .
Champion Poultry farm is a
striking example of what one
Wilkes family can do.
ohioken popiriiA’noN—
The chicken population of
Champion Poultry Farm Is at a
new high because war demands
more food. In addition to the
30,000 layers, there are pullets
galore, and with enough cocks
and cockerels to keep them from
getting lonesome.
EGG PRODUCTION—
, Just In case you want to know,
tbe dally output of eggs at Cham-
■plon Poultry Farm is over 16,000.
If that figure is too big to con-
tem^ate. Just reduce it to forty
cases, which Is about the same,
and which is about as many as
could be piled on e one ton truck.
And if you want gome bigger
figures, Mr, Minton has marketed
23,000,000 aggs during his career
as a-poultryman. It you want to.
reduce that figure to something
you can digest. Just say it would
be 120 oaxloads.
But back to the beginning. Mr.
Minton decided to try poultry to
see If it would help his farm, then
That is the only breed on .Mr.
Minton’s farm today, every one of
the many thousands Is a purebred
Champion wh've leghorn.
And Champion is not only the
South’s leading egg producing
farm, it is one of the world’s out
standing breeding farms.
It is not only to produce eggs
that the large farm Is operated. It
is to improve the breeding of oiie
of the world’s most famous breeds
of layers.
Mr. Minton holds the national
record for the aumber of hens
qualifying for Record-Of-Perfor-
raance.
R. O. P. means trapnesting
And trapnesting means that the
hens are numbered.
And that the nest is a trap.
When the hen goes in to lay,
the nest door falls. Each hour
an attendant makes the rounds of
the R. O. P. hens. He lets out of
the tnapnests the hens which have
done their daily duty.
He records beside the number
of the hen on a chart the hour in
which she put out her product
The R. O. ’P. checkers come by
for an inspection and the records
are certified.
Last year there was a hen in
the R O. P. floch which laid 334
eggs_'-that is not missing many
days out of the 365.
CHAMPION, HATCHEBT—
As a part of the farm a large
hatchery with a capacity of 176,-
000 eggs is operated.
It is e modem and up-to-date
hatchery.
Chickens from the hatchery are
sold each year to people in many
BUtes, but Mr. Minton has net^f
been able to fill all the orders.
This spring the demand has
been exceedingly great, and num
erous orders have had to be re
turned.
good LIVABIUTV—
It is nothing unusual for a buy-,
er of Champion chicks to ral^
96'per cent of them. In fact, I
more than five per cent die with
In three weeks, they are replac^
without charge. There have bee
very few reptecements
More than two million chicks
have gone out of Champion Poul
try farm to lay profits for othw.
poultrymen in more than halt cl
the Untted SUtes. ^
many PUIiLETS 901®—
In addition to selling day-oldi
chicks, Champion Poultry Parm
raises puUete, which are eold «p
hut year mrar h^l|
see if It would help Me farm, won to laying age. T’T’,;”
only 48 acres, to provide ji l^rll^ .-of 69.066 5*^^
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