The Frisco Employes' Magazine, May 1927
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'May' ............................................ 4 ernonstration Train Started Manmoth Chicken Industry at Clinton, Missouri 6-7 :rawberry Industry Began in 1887 .................................................................................. 8 By C. B. Miclrelsort fficers Discuss Railway Problems .............................. .. ........................................ 9 inning Engine Passes 1,500,000 Mile Mark............... .... ............................. 10 eterans Will Meet Jnne 6-7 at Springfield ........................... .. ................................... 11 the Frisco Greater Traffic Committees ..........................................................................12-13 ounting on the Frisco .................................................................................................... 17 By C. B. Rex wice Campaign Brings Good Results .............................................................. 18 itorious Service........................................................................................................... 19 ringf field Roundhouse Abandoned .................................................................................. 21 aughter Prominent Radio Vocalist ............. .................................................... 22 of Praise from Frisco Shippers .......................... ...... ..................................... 23 :ords ................................................................................................................................. 25 t of Frisco Employcs' Hospital Association ................................................................26-27 sion Roll .................................. ..............................................................................................28-29 :crs' Page ........................ ................................................................ 30 : the Season ............................... ... ........................................................................... 3 1 light Hour ............................................................................................................................. 32 Daughters of Frisco Family Folk ............................................................................ 33 )f Merriment ............................ .......................................................... 34 -ditorial ....................... ................. ........................................................................ 35 . Page of Cartoons ..................................................................................................................... 36 risco Mechanic ......................................................................................................................................37-43 THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE The Frlsco Employes' Magaxlns is a monthly publlcatlon devoted primarily to the interests of the more than 30.000 active and retired employes of the Frisco Lines. It contains stories, items of current news, personal notes about employes and their families, articles dealing with various phases of railroad work, poems, cartoons and notices regarding the service. Good clear photographs suitable for repro- ductlon are especially desired, and will be returned only when requested. All cartoons and drawings must be in black India draw~ngInk. Employes are invited to wrlte articles for the magazlne. Contrlbutfons should be typewritten, on one 8lde of the sheet only, and should be addressed to the Edltot. Frisco bull din^, St. Inuis, Mo. Distributed free among Frisco employes. To others, price 15 cents a copy: subscription rate $1.50 a year. Advertising rates will be made known upon application. Frisco Demonstration Train in 1 9 1 3 Started Mammoth Chick Industry at Clinton, Mo. Booth Hatcheries Ship 3,000,000 Chick in 1926 -6,000,000 Chicks Sen f Via Frisco From Clinton in One Year NE of the first agricultural demonstration trains fence, and cared for the chicks until the weather per- ever run on the old K. C. C. & S. Line (Frisco mitted him to make room for them outside. owned) from Kansas City to Springfield At the end of the year he found that he had sold steamed its way out of the Clinton, Missouri, station both eggs and chickens from his original setting, to on March 19, 1913, after having stopped there over- the amount of $700.00. The dream looked more real ;ht. Its mission was to renew interest in poultry all the time! sing and fruit And that was )wing. There the start of the 3 been many I famous B o o t h ks made by r Hatcheries, now perts, and a I a State accredit- Ee mass meet- ed hatchery. A ; held at the 1. Frisco de m on- ;h school, and . stration train - I program was a kind Frisco rated so all I section foreman ght benefit by who was willing i t. Strawberry to lend a hen- plants and set- , and a boy's big tings of eggs , idea. had been given I I When Royal away to the per- I Booth l&ked sons holding the ,I over his busi- lucky numbers. , ness ledger for Royal Booth, I the year of a Clinton youth 1%6, he found of eighteen I that he had years, and a 1 shipped in that student at the . one year, 3,000,- high school had 000 chicks to drawn a setting I every state in of eggs the I the union. n i p. h t before. Booth 111 u st ~iifather and The above airplane view is of the 30-acre Booth Hatchery farms at Cliiiton,. r e c e i v e full mother had al- Mo., on Frisco Li~tes. Imert in upper left-hand corner is of Royal Booth, who credit for starled the trow famous hatchery in 1913. Imert lower right-hand corner, Rex ways had a Booth, who operates fhe business today in the absence of his brother. hatchery b u s i. chickens around ness in Clinton the place, but they hadn't belonged to Royal. Since his success, there has been a total of seven hatch- He took an unusual interest in this one setting of eries, all originating from the idea of the Booth hatch. eggs. They were his, and the expert had told him ery. The Linstrum hatchery of thirty-eight acres that they were from pedigree White Rock stock. shlpped a million and a half chicks in 1926, while tht None of the hens around his home seemed willing