The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-23
STATE POULTRY ASSOCIATION
HAVE A MEETING.
DISCUSS POULTRY MATTERS
AND SOME OF THE ARRANGEMENTS
FOR THE ANNUAL IN FEB
RUARY.
FOUR SILVER CUPS TO BE HUNG UP.
III. w. Brown Gives Some interest
Ing Statistics About the Great
American Hen.


meeting of the members of the Min
nesota State Poultry association was
held last night in the rooms Of the
Commercial club, the general purpose
being to talk over the affairs of the
organization in general and plans for
the coming annual exhibition in par
ticular. There were probably 100 mem
bers present and they were talked to
by several gentlemen who know lot
about poultry matters and were not
afraid to tell it.
H. j. Getty presided while F. X.
Marzolf, selected recently to succeed
Secretary Herbert W. Brown, kept
track of the proceedings President
Getty explained that the members
were expected to discuss and devise
means in the interest of the annual
poultry show, which will be held in ST.
Paul during the week of Feb. 6-13, and
which it is intended to make even more
of success that the biggest one in
the history Of the association-that Of
last winter. 1t was conceded that when
they knew more of the Importance of
the show, the business men would, If
allowed, take a greater interest in it
than before. 1t was urged that sue
cess Of the show would aid ST. Paul,
her business men and the exhibitors
from all over the state. w. A. Gates,
one of the Oldest members Of the as
ISOLATION, told something of it's early
history, beginning with it's inception
at Rochester, when the first show was
held in 1886. The following year, at
the show held in st. Paul, there were
but 200 specimens shown, but the as
ISOLATION has been growing until it
was last year able to give one of the
best allround displays of poultry in
the country. He gave the exhibitors
who were making modest starts, every
announcements, and bade them ap-
pear as often and as strongly in point
of numbers as they could at every
show possible.
Secretary E. W. Randall, of the
State Fair association, loaned the
members much encouragement also by
recital of the growth Of the poultry
exhibits at the state fair, and aided
that the departmel was easily one
of the most impor;1nl or the list. AS
bearing this out. ne commented on
the fact that the annual collection
of birds at Hamline had kept growing
until, from a small wooden building,
the big brick building used formerly
fall, been found too small to accommo-
date the feathered exhibit The busi-
ness men already realized the impor-
lance of this department, and in this
city stood ready to do all In their pow
er to help the poultry fanciers and
their annual exhibition.
Leslie Pariin, one of the old-tfne
members of the association, rose to re-
mark that for some years he had be-
leVed in holding the shows in Min
neapolis for the best interests of the
association, but that, since the exper-
fence of last year, he knew that there
was only one city to have them, and
that was st. Paul. He. had no unkind
words for the few disgruntled Mime
apOlis men who had pulled out, and
prophesied that the best of them would
be found again in the ranks OF the
faithful.
The president named Messrs. Ran
DALI McGinnis and Gates a committee
of three to confer with the commercial
bodies and railroads relative to secur-
ing reduced rates for the show week.
The cup committee, consisting IF
Messrs. Lynch, Hope and Meili. report
ed that four silver cups would be hung
up by the association, and a fifth will
be offered by a local poultry journal.
list will be arranged by the executive
committee, to be out not later than
Jan. Is. The business men VIII be
asked to furnish a number of spacial
premiums. D. r. McGinnis l,etieved
that a more general interest in the
affairs Of the poultry men would go
hand and hand with a more thorough
knowledge of what they were Icing
or going to do, and. as a sort of reply,
II. W. Brown, until recently the Sec
rotary, offered some astounding fig
ures on the American hen, which he
said was not given the honor to which
she was entitled in the commercial
world. The American hen, he said
earned, according to some statistics
prepared by a well-known poultry au-
thority. 100000 coo each year. Hens
to the number of 350,000,0OO laid 49,
750, 600, 900 eggs each year, the value of
which is S165, 000,000 The poultry meat
sold during the year, he explained,
amounted to a total of SIPS, 600, 900, and.
with the receipts from the eggs, made
a total greater than the figures for the
wheat or oat crop for the year, more
than the receipts for either sheep or
swine, and as great as the value of all
minerals and precious stones taken
from any American mine in a wear.
Mr.. Brown made the point that the
sum mentioned was also greater than
the United States pension roll, or the
total of interest on farm mortgages,
and added that the receipts of the sale
of hens eggs were sufficient to and
did pay the grocery and clothing bills
of the farmers of the Northwest This
fact he commended to the considera-
ton of the business men in cities
The association will meet again on
the evening Of Jan. 5. at the CONNER
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