This is a business card created for a poultry business that Lloyd started two to three years before he left home for telegraphy school (1913-1914). B.W. (his father) sold the incubators and Lloyd sold baby chicks, cared for the grown poultry and also sold eggs (this from his mother’s journals).
This interest led to a six month course in Poultry Management at Cornell Univ. taken when Arnon was a baby (1920-21). Ethel mentioned that the hills of Ithaca made it hard to push Arnon's buggy.
This poultry course in turn was instrumental in his building a two floor poultry house in S. Byron (1929) where he cared for 400 chickens. He did very well, until the bottom dropped out of the market with the depression. He lost the farm in 1930.
Thank you to Diana for sending this along!!
4 comments:
I had no idea that business cards go that far back.
What was the farm in S. Byron? Was that Grandpa's farm or his parents'? Was he the one primarily responsible for it? Why not his other brothers?
Where is S. Byron?
Sue
Glad that someone knew some of the history behind this card. FYI Sue it is bigger than a traditional size business card about 2 x 4 inches.
Found it in a box of old stuff that my dad had
Diana
Another personal picture! We are skiing up at Jay Peak in Vermont, and while this is not Nick, I'm sure this is what he looks like when he is whizzing down the moutain!
More posts when we get back this weekend.
Have a great President's Week, everyone.
Just visiting the site and I see that the picture at the top is of the Golden Gate Bridge. I drive across that several times a week. Alex's high school is almost visible in the picture, just a short distance to the left after crossing the bridge into San Francisco.
It's definitely tedious to drive that commute so often. But I still feel a thrill when the bridge comes into view.
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