Egg Farmer
Description:
"Leader: "P2 Egg Farmer 8/4/74 #9556"; Silent footage of a teenage boy carrying a bucket of chicken feed to a hen house in the woods. Feeds the chickens and counts them. Another boy with a cardboard box full of chicks. Car with "Hillside Poultry Farm Marblehead" written on it in the driveway. Interview with farmer Emerson Brown about how the rising cost of feed means a rising cost in eggs and meat. Silent footage of Brown feeding chickens in cages and pouring feed in a bucket. Mary McKay reporter standup about the drought in the midwest and rising cost of feed is raising the cost of eggs. Outtakes more b-roll footage of the farm, turkeys, chickens, and interview with Brown."
