Poultry make me happy, I love chooks and ducks...well all birdies really. If you're not at all interested in vintage chook loving, best look away now. So today's Vintage Thursday Thingy is a copy of the Poultry Tribune magazine from 1934, that's been kicking around my office at work. It's not a very stimulating read, all dry stuff about raising the best chickens for your dollar, and given this was depression era America, I suppose that's logical. Win money- $1500 in Cash! growing "those fluffy balls of down"... that would have been a pretty good prize at the time.
For example, the article on page six is titled "Chickens Pay!" and starts:
"I wanted to go to college and I wished to study music," Lillian Becker, 21 year old Cass county, North Dakota, poultry and egg producer, said as she laid down her chicken house cleaning tools. That is the reason why I launched into the poultry and egg business...And here I am still in the business which has proven profitable the past two years in spite of 'slow times'."
Here's Lillian (a girl after my own heart) cuddling one of her chickens:
I like the advertisements, they're all rather charming...bring those eggs out! Make them pay! Actually it sounds rather painful really. Run little hen!
And of course to keep the lady of the house happy, there's the requisite pattern service, a stern toned article on "Homemaking!" (this magazine! likes! exclamation! marks!) and even the odd bit o' humour:
"Was your garden a success this year, Mr Wiggins?"
"I'll say so! My neighbor's chickens won three prizes at the State Fair." Boom boom!
More Vintage Thingy Thursdays of a less paltry nature here.
