Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

We have an incubator or a breeder
on every one of the twelve classes of
poultry. The first is $40 incubator
and brood .r on the highest ten birds
of the American class. We have y
s2S brooder on the best bird of the
Asiatic class; $25 brooder on the
best birds of the Mediterranean class.
etc. and also give a $13 suspel sion
brooder for the largest number of
birds coming the longest distanc.
In the pen premiums, the barred
Plymouth Rocks, get $40 in gold for
the first Len. the sealnd pen S.
barrel of -four. On white Plymo outh
Rock s. silver pickle castor on the
the best pen; the second pen a silk
umbrella. On Silver Laced WAN
dottes the first pen silver tes pot;
second pen S. barrel of -four.
Golden Wyandottes. S. parlor ccnter
table on the first pen second pen,
silver bon bon dish. White Wyan-
dottes, the best pen, a pair of IS
trousers; Buff Wyandottes, the best
pen, S. silver bread plate.
'Tn the Asiatic class, the first pen
of Light Brahmas, S. in gold. Buff
Cochins, best pen, s5 in gold. Part
ridge Ccchins, best pen, S5 shaving
outfit complete. Black Langshans,
first pen, SO lady's jacket; Sc ond
pen, S. bariell of -four, On Single
comb Brown Leg horns, first pen, s5
in gold. Single comb White Leg
horns, first pen, IS pair of trousers.
First pen of silver spangled Ham,
burgs. an iron bedstead. First pen
Indian Cornish games, one S. horse
blanket. First trio Bronze turkeys,
s. in silverware, and the largest dis.
play of tuI xeys, SIS Poland China
pig. First trio white Pekin ducks,
silver cup
81 have only mentioned a few of
the premiums on the larger varieties
in the different classes above given.
The total premiums given by our
show will amount to 1870. Entriet
have been made from the rem ties
parts of the state, and almost every
county il the state will have rom
five to fifty birds. Shawnee county
alone will put in about 500; in ia It it
looks to me as if the whole state will
send its best birds here, as a score
card under the judge, Mr.. G. ii.
Rhodes, will add ten-fold price to
the bird. We will also have wild
ducks. wild turkeys, Toulouse geese,
white swans, peacocks, etc.
Few people are aware of tn, ex-
eht of the poultry interest in this
state and how 1t is increasing. The
Il ont Of the Secretary of the State
Board Of Agriculture for 1898 shows
~ enormous Increase, which is for
poultry and ggs alone, to say nosh-
'ng of The fine stock an the fine
'ggs that have been sold. Tne in
'rease OF poultry and eggs sold is as
foll W.: In 1885, $l559 .239; 1898,
S3 ,145, 723.
'lhe latter is taken from Seer ,tary
Corbun,s repor', and as said bove
It does not include any fancy poultry
whatever. To go little further,
here were shipped out of the state
the past yfsr $50 cars of eggs'
sveraging $50 cases per car and
stiriy doz N to the case, which we're
sold at a very low average It 10
cents per dozen, and this figures up
/ sale of $4,000 dozen. At 10
'ents per dozen, which as I say is q
low estimate, this makes $l57. 900
which goes into the hands of the
farmers and the farmers viva, in
this ate.
"This i not all There were
shipped ont in poultry, 100 car
loads per month, averaging ,nts
DER pound. This makes monthly
cash return to the farmers of ST.. 44O,.
OO per annum, THIS 10 4kss an
'normous amouat of money that
comes back into Kansas for ,hese
rticles of food. This is more han
butter, cheese and milk comb ned.
mere than all the oats raised in the
,tate more than all the Irish and
,weet potatoes; .l1 yet the po lltry
interest in this state has not been
oorn yet.
Tho United States IMPORTS
annually over S5.OoU,Uuv worth of
eggs and the amount Is increasing
,very year. A few CURES will give
'ome idea.
, France, with its 10000 square
miles OF tillabl, land and 55 O0J,O0O
population, furishes England annually
with 900, 100000 eggs and uses 8, 200.
900 900 for home consumption.
This reaches total OF $500 1000
, OF eggs alone in Franc. New York
aud Brooklyn consumes $4,000, 900
dozen per annum in addition T., the
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