Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-29
READY TO EAT.
Dressed Poultry and Egg Exhibit
at Poultry Show.


the National Fanciers' Association
of Chicago at the Sherman house
Sept. 6, 1890:
New Troy, Mich, Sept 4, 1890.
MY Dear Mr. Hogle: ! regret
CHAT time will not allow of my ex-
fpression on this subject as fully as
/it at present deserves. However, |
do not feel that it calls for many
words now to convince the members
sof the National Fanciers Associa-
ton that the time is ripe for the es-
tablishing of dressed poultry and
egg exhibit in connection with their
progressive exhibition of fancy,
STANDARDIZED fowls, in the great
city of Chicago.
i believe that their minds are al
ready about made up to make this
department fixture. Mr.. F. B.
Whites article to your last assem-
bly, clearly shows that there are
those who are fully awake to the
benefits that will be enjoyed by all
poultry growers in the district and
rin surrounding states; when Chi
acago markets are influenced by
esuch exhibits of fancy dressed poul-
TRY and and fancy eggs as your ex-
Inhibition can bring together. The
struth is that the Chicago people as
Saywhole have for many years been
eating a very ordinary class of
gpoaltry-the best killed and put-up
fowls, broilers, roasters and capons
going to markets paying more APP
Preciative prices, to New York
largely and to Boston in particular,
until shippers have come to regard
sour city as a dumping ground for
all the mediocrity in their product
in poultry and eggs.
All poultry men in the west are,
Nor will be, interested in this move
srnent to show to the people of Chi
cago what is produced and can be
procured of the best IN the poultry
line.
Shippers from as far west as nli-
nols have been sending special ex-
Ahioits OF chickens and turkeys to
atne Boston exhibits of dressed poul-
try.
~ hese producers and a great
manB others who are making liv-
ing blythe poultry industry will see
that the demand and prices in the
best Chicago markets can be greatly
influenced, the prices raised in our
vicinity and their own interests
served by sustaining a hrst-class,
up-to, date and progressive table
poultry show at Chicago.
GAs far as we can see, the table
poultry show, handled in a pro-
gressive manner, is the shortest cut
to-glining for Chicago a better rep
4,utation as d central poultry market
and to educating the western mar
kets to demand the best class of
poultry and eggs.
Let me say here to those who are
econ emplating showing in the table
poultry department., but who fear
that their favorite breed is not of
Fthe most popular sort on the mar
ket table, that we have seen pOul.
1fy of the least popular color, when
perfectly fattened and dressed, win
ming in classes against the sup
posedly fashionable sort. If your
birds possess real quality and they
are shown as attractively as it is
possible to display them, they will
not pass the experts notice, whose
duty 1t is to look for genuine merit,
regardless of fashion, without rea-
son. The wholesome influence of
the table poultry show is being felt
in the sections of the country where
they are held by the breeders OF
Standard bred varieties, and we
notice them closely studying and
breeding for the development of the
sections that fit their favorites for
the market requirements of those
who demand breeding stock for
market production alone.
The fanciers of STANDARD bred
poultry" and the market poultry