FARMERS PRODUCE CO.
[JESSE STEWART BROWN]
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Hamilton county has a record of selling $250,000 worth,
or thereabout, of poultry and eggs per year; a record of which it is
justly proud. For this reason the Fort Worth Poultry and Egg Company felt
justified in opening their branch house, The Farmers Produce Company under
the management of Jess Brown, a former Lampasas farmer boy and son of W.
J. And Addie (Cloud) Brown, both Texans, and living in Lampasas.
Mr. Brown was made manager of the Farmers Produce
Company at its opening in Hamilton and has built up a very extensive
trade. Their principal sales are in poultry, eggs, cream, hides, and some
wool and feed.
Mr. Brown states that the firm’s shipments of eggs
amount to approximately ten thousand cases per year, two hundred thousand
pounds of poultry, and during turkey season about three hundred thousand
pounds of dressed turkeys; also about forty pounds of cream per year.
The leading shipping points of this enterprising firm in
the state re Galveston, Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth, the central point
of their business. Short shipments are made by truck and rail. Their
shipping points out of state for poultry are New Orleans, New York, and
other eastern cities; New York for turkeys, and Boston for Wool. Through
their seaboard shipping markets they have outlets to the foreign markets
giving our commodities a world-wide outlet. It is an instructive and
interesting thought for Hamilton poultry, egg, and feed producers to
revolve in their minds, that the products of their own farms are finding a
world-wide outlet from a business firm in their home town.
Mr. Brown married Miss Pebble Archie of Lampasas. Mr.
and Mrs. Brown are given a cordial welcome by the business and social
circles of the town and county.
The Hamilton County News, Vol. IV, Number
11--Section Two
Historical and Trading Expansion Issue
W. F. Billingslea, Editor-Publisher
Subscription Price ONE YEAR ..$1.00
June 29, 1934
