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8 comments:
Thanks Joe. That steps back in my childhood and I have listened to Mr. Long many days awaiting a specific flock to be sold. This is a wonderful post for those of us who have lived here all of our lives.
Am I getting old, or what? I remember listening to Carroll Long on the radio during the auction and also watching his market report on WBOC at night.
any idea what year this was? Early 50's maybe?
I would say mid to late 50's. I remember the show and Carroll Long both. He sold the poultry sometime around noon on Wednesday I think so that the farmers could be in the house to listen to their flock being sold. Fond memories.
This is one of my all-time favorites on your blog. I remember Carroll Long very well. Thank you for posting it.
Carroll Long used to own The Bank of Fruitland. Very nice man.
For all of those out there - the chicken auction yielded higher prices for the independent poultry grower as opposed to the current practice of contract growers.
Everyone who owned a chicken house could sell their birds at the chicken auction. Today - the poultry company controls the incubation, feed conversion, heat, you name it.
I knew a lot of farmers who wished the chicken auction were still in existence.
I do remember Carroll Long and remember when he was on What's My Line. Can you believe that was as popular as DWTS and Idol! We had a small black and white TV. I graduated from H.S. in 56 and I think this was prior to that. Maybe 1954.
Who remembers Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Guest Star Actor David Niven?
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