Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-11-27
HIGH PRICED POULTRY.
The Exhibition at ArmOry Hall a
Success.
The Sweepstakes Cup and Who Holds
It--.The Number OF sEntries...Th
Judges---Some thing of Interest to
Eanciers.

The entries for the third annual exhi
bition of the Northwestern Illinois Poul
try association at Armory hall are abou
all in. 496 being enrolled The larges
contributors are F. NJ. Munger. o
DeKalb, ILL.,. eighty birds, D. G. White
Rock Island, ffty>two, w. E
Hilton, Rock Island. thirty three; II. F
Drury. Galesburg, tweuty-seven. Mr.
Munger holds the silver swecpstsk
cup. awarded year ago to the ex
hibitor showing the five highest scor
Ing birds of any variety. and which
must be won three times in success
sion before it becomeslthe property o
the winner. The cup is on hand. Th,
judges. F. II. Shellabarger, of Lets
Iowa. and Theo. Hewes, of Trenton
Mo-, are busily engaged scoring.
The following is the last of entire,
made since Yesterdays report:
r. F. Rowe, Geneseo. nine light Brah,
mas.
j. NJ. Bryon, Geneseo, eighteen Ply
mouth Rocks.
John A. Noftsker, Rock Island, two
white Leghorns.
w. G. Deem, Geneseo. six Partridge
| Cochins, five white Cochins. three games,
Leonard Rice, Davenport, nine Golden
Wyandottes.
Rev. John Hughes. Table Grove, III
five white Plymouth Rocks, nine bun
Cochins, two barred Plymouth Rocks.
John Cole. Elmore. Ill.,. four white
Wysndottes, eight Langshans.
F. NJ. Munger. DeKalb. H.. twenty
four barred Plymouth Rocks, ten white
Plymouth Rocks, two silver Wyandottes,
ten white Leghorns, eighteen brown Leg
horns, eight bronze turkeys.
}. H. Brown, Princeton, Ill, ten Ply
mouth Rocks.
Z. F. Johnson, Galesburg, fourteen
white Leghorns. four barred Plymouth
Rocks, four white Plymouth Rocks.
Ed. Norman, Davenport, pair duck
winged games
Arthur Burial. Rock Island, six Leg
horns.
Henry Hendren. Rock Island, eight
game Bantsms
Herman c, Goettsch, Davenport, eight
light Brshmas.
Gus. Hanann, Davenport, pair white
faced black Spanish.
Henry Thode, Rock Island. seven
pair pigeons.
RAISING FANCY POULTRY.
The man who goes into fancy poultry
raising must do so with one or two DUR
poses. and mist abide by the result, {"
SAID Morgan Bates, editor of the Amerf-
can Poultry Journal If he make it an
avocstion he must be willing to look
upon IL as labor of love, without re-
garting 1t financial investment, taking
proht or loss with equanimity, or he
must go into it as business, devoting
his entire time to ii, and raise fowls for
the market. There is promising field.
There is money in it when properly
handled. Ii is safe to say that man
can make. on an investment of 81 900 In
fowls, 81 piece per year For the amount
OF capital put into il that is a good re-
turn. There is no danger of overstock-
ing the market. either in 'broiers'-
meaning young tender chickens-or
eggs. While this phase of the business
Is somewhat discredited by the fanciers
proper. 1t is probably the surest side in q
financial way. You see. there
is considerable difference between
what is called fancy fowls and
the pure breeds While the fancy
fowls are raised mainly for the purpose of
exhibition and for the sake of fine ap
pearance, bringing out the ideal form OF
particular breed more and more closely,
and while for such fancy birds high
prices are paid and prizes are awarded al
exhibitions, il is different with the
breeding of pure stock. Whoever raises
fowls should by all means raise pure
breeds. What We see around this CITY In
farms and barnyards are the scrub birds
as rule-the 'dunghilr variety. as they
are called. They are a mixture OF every
thing, and that is bad all around. The
quality which are good, let US say. in a
Houdan. are killed off by a cross with q
Cochin or Plymouth Rock. for instance,
and there is never any telling what
chickens of real mixed breed will do,
whether they will turn out good egg
producers or bad ones, whether their
meat will be tough or tender These
mongrel birds. therefore, ought not
TO be bred. They constantly help 10
deteriorate our national stock of fowls
still further. While it is therefore, not
very profitable-as Il rule-to raise fancy
poultry, strictly speaking, TOO much at
tention being devoted to their appear.
ance and too little TO their qualities, it is
eminently practical and wise 10 raise pure
breed poultry, no matter of which of the
leading kinds, for they are all good and
each has its fine points. Many of these
pure-breed fowls are made SO that they
would be barred out at poultry shows,
but for utiiitarian purposes they are the
best to raise. To sum it up: 1t is the
man who studies the subject intelligently
who goes into poultry raising with view
of learning and profting by experience,
that makes money by fowls. All men
unwilling To do this are advised to stay
out of it. No man out west has yet made
fortune out of fancy poultry raising,
| and no one has gone into it as an exclu,
sive business. But there is no reason
why many men shouldn't do So"
The Chicago Herald recently contained
an excellent article on thoroughbred
poultry, in which it said:
America holds high place among the
various civilized countries in the matter
of raising high>bred fowls. not only il
the Improvement of the existing stock
but also in the matter of originating new
| breeds. Among these latter the Ply.
mouth ROck--a purely American variety,
which was evolved from crosses between
the American Dominique and the BLACK
Java-Wyandotte. Dominique and Jer.
sey Blue may he cited. Other vsrietie.
have been considerably modified since
their transplauting on American soil. II
fact, every variety Of bird becomes Amer.
icanized after some time. American
breeders have their own ideas how bird
should be bred to perfection. Man,
birds that would be considered first. clss
in England and admitted TO exhibition
would be disqualified here. Each va
riety is bred in accordance with pre-
scribed rules, as laid down in the stand,
ard which has found favor Throughout
the land. The English are extreme fan,