The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-07
POULTRY SHOW AWARDS.
The Giving of Prizes Was Completed
This Morning.

The attendance at the poultry show
last night and today was very encour-
aging to the mana cement. The exhi-
bition will be continued the remainder
of the week. The association will hold
its annual business meeting tonight and
elect officers for the ensuing year
c. H. Rhodes. judge of the poultry
exhibits, is proceeding as rapidly as
possible with the awards, which will
not be completed until tomorrow Those
which have been made are as follows:
Barred Plymouth Rocks-A. Sheetz,
cockerel first and pullet first and sec
ond, and hen first; H. E. Hanna, hen
first and second; 2. w. Bruce, cock sec
ond; William Vesper, cock first, hen
third; John Dudley, cockerel third.
White WyandOttes-H. J. WhittleSey,
first on cock, hen and pullet, second on
cockere1 and pen; John Cowl, first on
cOckerel and pen, second on hen and
pullet.
Golden Wyandottes-W. A. Doolittle
first on cock, cockerel, hen and pullet
and pen; second on pullet and pen.
Buff WyandOttes-John Dudley, first
on cock, cockerel, pullet- and pen, sec
ond on pullet; w. A. DooIittle, second
on cocSerel and pen.
Silver Laced Wyandottes-MrS. w. J.
Walters, first on cOckerel and pen; W.
r. Comstock, second on pen; d. M. May,
first on pullet, second on pullet and
pen: Mrs J. w Cause first on cock
Mr.. D. NJ. May and Mrs. J. w. Cause,
both Emporia exhibitors, tied, each
scoring S41M points on eight females
and one male. buff Wyandottes. the
prize being a special one consisting of
a silver cake stand and butter stand.
Partridge CochinS-James Clark, the
only exhibitor, won all the prizes Of
fered for this variety.
Not the least attra ctive part of the
show is the special exhibits on Plymouth
Rocks, for which The Poultry Farm Of
fers a silver teapot.
John Ramsberger received first prizes
on the following pigeons: Red magpie
cock, silver English owls, black wing
turbits, blue Chinese owls, also on 1895
owls, red and black jack hens, black
magpies. cock and hen, jacobin cock,
same white, red and yellow jacobins, all
prizes on black barbs red pied pouters,
white flying tumbler hen, black splash
flying tumblers, A. o. c. trumpeter, red
wing A. o. c. trumpeter, red wing 1896
turbit. Second prize on yellow and red
jacobin cocks, red wing turbit, red
jack 1896, black maybe.
William Schutt received first prizes
as follows: 1896 blue jacobin hen and
yellow 1896 cock, red jacobin hen, pair
red dragons, yellow dragon, all prizes
on old and young homers, red pied a.
o. G. 1896 and white 1896 pOuterS, pair
dun carriers, black booted cock, black
tumbler pair, black splash hen, black
splash flying and booted tumblers, pig
my cock, yellow 1896 flying tumbler, red
1896 magpie hen, 1886 silver English
owls, blue African owls, white English
owls, white trumpeters, red wing turbit
cock, also yellow wing, 1896, and shell
crest turbits, black jacks 1896 and 1896
black magpies; third on yellow jacobins,
third and fourth on red jacOblnS, third
on white pied pouter.
Isaac Sheetz won first prizes as fol-
lows: yellow jacobin hen, pair white
and 1895 dragons, pair red. barbs, 1896
dun carriers; first and second prizes on
h oh rod %, Tia iTSf
on A. o. c. pouters, black and yellow
pied pouters; first and third on red jack
cocks and second and third on hens; all
prizes on blue Dragons and white dra-
goons-
Clifford Moffett scored as follows:
First on smooth black tunlbIer cock
second on black booted hen, first on red
agate and black notified pairs.
Henry VeSper, Jr., got second on
black inside tumbler hen and cock; VIII
liam Schutt, second on yellow 1896 tum-
bier hen, the remaining first, second
and third prizes going to M. F. Hankla
on the following varieties: Red, black
and yellow inside tum blerS, A. o. c.
and 1896 cock and hens. dun, black an6
red pairs, and yellow lnottled and 1885,
inside tumblers, total of about 81
prizes.
The above awards were made las
night. The following, which complete
The list of awards, were completed this
forenoon by John HaInan, who judged
the show:
Isaac Sheetz, first On blue wing tur
bits, same 1896, and pair red barbs; vii
liam Schutt, first on white and 1896 anC
blue crested fantail; all prizes OF
smooth head fantails to Isaac Sheetz
all prizes on black smooth head anC
crested fantails, first on dun and yellow
cock, second on yellow hen, to w
CAeckfield; third ON hen to William
Schutt; all prizes on silver and arch
angels to Schutt; fiji st on blue swallow
to Sheetz, second to Schutt, who take
all prizes on red quaQuers, noreheads
nuns and ancients, and first on booteN
and crested splash tdmblers, first OF