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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jewell expanded, broadening his markets by eviscerating his birds and shipping them fully dressed, packed in ice. As volume grew, Jewell enlisted the aid of banks and feed companies to set up a system which enabled North Georgia's farmers, who were too poor to finance a business of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Cackle King | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Jewell ships out chicks to nearly 1,000 farmers in eleven counties, provides them with feed, on credit. After the birds are fattened, Jewell takes them back, paying the farmers on the basis of weight gained. His rule of thumb: an average flock of 1,000 chicks should attain a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Cackle King | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Jewell extended this lend-lease system to breeder-flocks, now has 54 farm families tending chickens that lay 165,000 New Hampshire Red eggs a week for Jewell's Gainesville hatchery. By carefully controlled feeding and breeding, he has eliminated the seasonal swings in laying, keeps his processing plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Cackle King | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

30 Below Zero. Jewell's trucks keep up a constant exchange of baby chicks for fattened broilers. After a final 36 hours of heavy feeding, the broilers are hung on a moving belt in Jewell's processing plant and killed, plucked, cleaned and rolled into a tunnel, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Cackle King | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

With meat prices sky-high and chicken down 23% in the past three years, Jesse Jewell and other big chicken raisers are sitting pretty. Since the nation has increased its appetite for chicken from 100 million to 750 million birds a year, chicken men see no reason why the cackle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Cackle King | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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