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Poultry Sales at High Figure in County Cooperative Sales Alone in 10 Years Are Near $100,000 Shipping their first carload of poultry cooperatively 10 years ago last spring. Martin County farmers started what has proved a valuable side-line, records in the office of County Agent T. B. Brandon show. About 1925. Martin farmers joined in with their Beaufort neighbors and loaded a car in Washington. dust how many pounds of chickens farmers in this county sold there is not known definitely, but it is be lieved by those who made a sur vey then that Griffins Town ship farmers are said to have made extensive deliveries at that time. The response given the call for cooperative loadings in Washington was sufficient for Agent Brandon to arrange ship ments from this county the fol lowing year. Records show that Martin farmers sold 17.590 pounds cooperatively that year, receiving $4,417 50 Each year showed an increase, and by lf)29 farmers in this county were de livering and selling to the con tracting cars 74,903 pounds of live poultry. That year was a banner season, the farmers re ceiving $18,036.68, an all-tune de livery and price record. Last season Martin poultry raisers sold 62,921 pounds of live poultry for $11,124.26 coop eratively. Beginning in 1926, Agent Bran don has contracted and booked REAL MONEY ativdy in this county since the first enrs were operated in 1924 are as follows: 6,000 * 1,320.00* 1925 23,000 5,060.00* 1926 17,590 4,417.50 1927 28,173 6,19464 1928 34.959 6.898.28 1929 74,903 18.036.68 1930 53,802 11.292.39 1931 59,605 9.935 04 1932 63,909 9,219.68 1933 41,976 4.167.34 1934 6,430 661-22* 1838 45,790 6.75060 1936 62,921 11,12466 Totals 519.063 $95,086 11 * Estimated. all the cars, with the exception of 1934, when the Roanoke Ex change handled the shipments. That was a bad season and hard ly more than 6,431 pounds of poultry was shipped cooperative ly from the county. The old schedule was placed back in ef fect in 1933, and the farmers sold 45,799 pounds for $6,738.88. Total poundage, estimating the deliveries for the years 1924, 1925 and 1934, shipped cooperatively from this county since the cars were first operated, runs well over half million pounds, netting the farmers nearly $100,000 In addition to the ready market created by the 'cooperative sell ing the operation of the cars has helped to maintain local market prices and relieved congestion. The successful operation of the cars has not been without trou COOPERATIVE POULTRY LOADING Cooperative poultry shipments. nth as the one pirtured here, are rapidly becoming a sireable business in this county During the past lb years, Martin farmers have delivered to the ears over half aalllkia poundj of chickens, receiving Just about one hundred thnnisad dollars. blr,however, for the hucksters,' or small-scale operators, 'have done nearly everything m their^ power to turn farmers against the cooperative selling plan. These small-scale operators would up their prices 1-2 cents on the days the cars were load ing, when just a few days before they would be paying anywhere from 3 to 5 cents below the mar ket prices established by the cars. > Fortunately. however, compara tively few farmers patronized the hucksters, and the cars have been able to operate with suc cess. These cars have been operated jwithout profit to Uie county a gent's office, the contract price Industrial Market For Farm Products Forecast Ford Chemical experiments tin the laboratories of the Edison Insti tute at Dearnborn have shown that soybean oil can be used to advantage in manufacturing enamels, varnishes and house paints; linoleum and oilcloth; printers' ink. glycerin, fatty acids soap, foundry sand cores, vege table shortening and oleomar garine; that soybean meal be used to make excellent molded parts, glues and other adhesives. water paints, core bonds, and plywood j glues, and that the fiber of the soybean is useful in making press ed boards for box manufacture and furfural. The Ford Motor Company co operates extensively by making some of the parts for the Ford car and truck from soybean plas tic?among them the horn but tons, gear-shift knobs, distribu tor parts, light switch asesmbly and timing gears. Some of the cars to be made late this year will have window frames made from soybean meal going to the sellers in its entire ty. The contractors have made money and lost money, the prices praid in this county on several occasions being higher than the quotations on the northern mar kets The contracts were made, and the buyers were forced to abide by the terms Sympathetic Service A nywhere Anytime Funeral Directors and? Embalmers t Night Phone 147 Ambulance Service Day Phone 79 Biggs Funeral Parlor Williamston, N. C.
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