According to an article in the Beckley Post-Herald from April 9, 1949, there were a number of turkey producers in the Greenbrier Valley. Frank Rodgers, Edith Wilson's brother, who lived in Organ Cave built a two story brooder building and was ready to put 500 turkeys in the house. The building was built for 1,500 turkeys on each floor. The building had steam heat.
Edgar Dickson, another of the three larger producers in the Greenbrier Vally area, who had a plant on Second Creek on Rt. 219 had 1,000 day-old turkeys. Both Rodgers and Dickson regularly produce two or three thousand turkeys each year.
Wilson Brothers planned to produce several thousand turkeys in 1949 which were marketed as broilers or during the holiday seasons. The Wilsons also had a number of breeders which they kept for production of hatching eggs.
At least a dozen farmers in the vicinity of Organ Cave had a few turkey hens and planned to set eggs, others purchased a few hundred poulets to be grown that year.
The turkey production was depressed in this area in 1948, but revived in 1949.