El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-30

| ton, and puts on no airs. He has been
engaged in the poultry business all his
life and developed from an exhibitor
to judge, the general satisfaction
which his awards usually give having
made him a most desirable arbiter at
such contests.
When seen by Republic reporter
Mr.. Butterfield had just finished award
| ing the prizes for the St. Louis show
and was in talkative humor.
what do I think of the st. Louis
Poultry Show" he repeated. "Why,
1t is the best yet held here and 1 have
attended several of them. 1t is not
crowd which attended seemed to be
getting into the same class, as also
were the exhibitors.
| II look forward to the day when the
ST. Louis Poultry and Pigeon Show will
be as much OF a social event and
attract as large crowds as it does in
London, New York, Boston and
| Baltimore.
l. 81 attended the one held In London
last year at the the Crystal Palace,
and it was the most complete and at
tractive I we seen in q life's experience.
The English beat the Americans in
some species, while on the other hand
we surpass them in many others. Take
the silver wyandottes, for instance.
There is bird which was originally
an American species, but our cousins
perfecting the bird. especially in re-
gard to the silver lacing which is such
great element in determining tho
points of merit.
"When you come to the leghorn and
the plymouth rock, however the Am
erican can't be beat. He lays it all
over the English on those classes. In
| fh4 ola L,
nobility are spectators and, in great
number exhibitors. The queen
herself displays her chickens,
but the judges show her no more
favor than anyone slse. Any
favoritism in any show would kill it.
Last year the queens stock won many
prizes. There have been shows where
she was a large exhibitor and yet won
not q single prize. Titles do not go
hibits of mobiles who had not complied
with the rules thown out of the con-
| test.
I'm New York the wealth:est peo-
pie are the mainstay of the poultry and
pigeon shows. Rockefeller aud Van
derbilt are fanciers of chickens aud
pigeons, who spend thousands of dol
lars annually on their poultry farms
and pigeon roosts. They exhibit their
birds and compete for the prizes with
as much interest as anyone.
II hope to see the day when St.
Louis will have q chow which will
equal that of New York, and I believe
that 1t could be made such if the
wealthy people here would take an In :
terest in it'as they do in the east and
10 Englsnd.-St. Louis Republic.
In dairying for butter it don't pay to
keep 10O-pouud COWS. One such In a
herd plays havoc with the net results
and Is q dead expense.-Farm and
Ranch.
The director of the Ohio Agricul-
tural Experiment Station says that
the ashes of corn cobs are rs valuable as
muriate of potash as q fertilizer, pound
for pound.-Fsrm and Ranch.
Shipping hickory nuts from Texas is
a new business. A Tyler firm shipped
carload few days ago and arrange
ments have made to ship two more. and
to secure market next season for all
the hickory nuts produced in Texas
Exchange.
Frank Cooley planted peanuts this
year and from about one acre he re-
ports having made more money than
from several acres of cotton and with
much less work. He found ready sale
for the nuts. Mr.. Cooley lives near
COarne.
The success attained at Barstow in
growing to perfection and marketing
at good price high grade of table
grape, equal in every respect to Cali
ment in favor of grape growing, which
will doubtless be quite leading in
dustry.-Pecos County Pickings.