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Show YOUTH SUCCESSFUL AS POULTRY RAISER Earl Crouse, Jr., got started in the poultry business while he was a vocational agriculture student in the Hudson, Mass, high school, says the Farm Journal. Now, at the age of 19, Earl has a flock of 1,000 Rhode Island Red layers. He retails 180 dozen eggs a week in Hudson and Boston, and sells 50 dressed chickens a week. This spring he raised 2,000 chickens, chick-ens, 1,000 pullets for laying flock replacements; 1,000 cockerels for meat stock. In addition, he raises vegetables on the 22-acre farm which his machinist-father owns. These accomplishments recently won Earl Crouse the title "Poultry Boy of the Year," conferred on him by the Northeastern Poultry Producers' Pro-ducers' Council. |