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...demand for the more prolific egg layer has required more and more automation. Near Atlanta, Ga., Layer Breeder Roy Durr produced 500,000 chickens last year trying to keep up with orders for layers. He puts the eggs in special incubators that vastly improve on the maternal solicitude of real hens. A hen often forgets to turn her eggs (causing the membrane lining to adhere to the shell and killing the fetus), or in hot dry weather leaves the nest and lets them dry out. Durr's mechanical mother turns each egg every hour, and when a thermometer warns...
...take advantage of such computer-like efficiency requires a high degree of automation and integration by the broiler men who buy the breeding stock. In Gainesville, Ga., Jesse Jewell, Inc. operates what it believes is the largest integrated chicken business in the world (TIME, Jan. 14, 1952). Buying Vantress roosters and hens from a New Hampshire breeder, Jewell hatches the eggs, sends the chicks out to 270 contract farmers in a 55-mile radius. The chicken houses are so thoroughly automated that one farmer can look after two houses, each containing 18,000 chickens. The feeding is entirely automatic...
...race to produce the best eating bird two leaders emerged: Charles Vantress, 46, with headquarters at Duluth, Ga., who raises about 3,000,000 roosters a year; and Henry Saglio, 47, who raises 15 million hens at Arbor Acres, his farm near Glastonbury, Conn. They sell the chickens to the hatchery men, who use them to breed the chicks, which in turn are sold to the broiler men to raise for the market. Of the nearly 2 billion chickens that are turned out for eating every year, Vantress' roosters sire 75%; Saglio's hens mother about...
...raised the minimum wage at Cannon Mills (effective Feb. 13) to $1.25 an hour, up from the company's present starting pay of $1.12. Those of his 24,000 employees now earning above the old minimum get 10? an hour more. Scores of mills ranging from West Point (Ga.) Manufacturing Co. to Avondale Mills in Alabama announced that they too were raising wages. By week's end pay raises had been promised to 100,000 textile workers, and textilemen predicted increases would sweep the entire industry by summer...
...quite elderly; I was afraid he'd die on me ... When I made my move I found out the two younger men were the ones that had to be impressed. I told the girls there's to be no mention of money ... to just get ga-ga over the whole thing . . . The young men's egos were at the bursting point. The deal netted me about...