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...Probably the biggest privately owned egg and poultry business in the U.S. is run by tall, large-boned, greying Hobart Creighton, 46, of Warsaw, Ind. Unable to raise hogs successfully, Eggman Creighton started with chickens 18 years ago. He owned 38 acres of land and some equipment. His brother Russell, 40, had $1,500 cash. They bought 1,200 hens. Today they have 60,000 pullets and hens, occupy 1,400 acres, employ 55 people, are capitalized at $250,000, produce 30,000 eggs a day, ten million eggs a year, get premium prices. Last year they grossed...
...Eggman Creighton believes in scientific farming, free enterprise and White Leg horns. The latter, he says, are the most efficient egg-producing machines yet dis covered. He seeks to improve his best layers by keeping strict records - how many eggs laid, their weight, the physical characteristics of chicks hatched from them, etc. He is president of the U.S. Record of Performance Breeders Association, also chairman of the National Poul try Defense Committee. (Sideline: he is Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives.) For his pedigreed chicks Egg man Creighton gets 40? to $1.75 each; the common-or-garden variety brings...
...freezers are Standard Brands and Ovson Egg Co. of Chicago, a National Dairy subsidiary. Proudest is Ovson's of the "Ovson process." Russian-born President Morris Ovson, now 53, has been in the frozen egg business since 1902, when he went to work for Boston Eggman H. J. Keith. One of the first packers to experiment with egg freezing, Keith sent Ovson to China to open an egg-freezing plant in competition with time-honored Chinese methods of preservation.* The Ovson plant in Shanghai, now owned by Borden's, is the largest in the Orient. Ovson and Keith...
...associate in Oology, Eggman Harlow will brood over one of the finest collections of old eggs in the world, second only to that of the lamented Riverside Farm. Adding a touch of piquancy to the announcement is the statement that the appointment is for a three-year term...