The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-24
KNOWS IT ALL.
Topeka Has One of Best Poultry
Judges.
He Is C. H. Rhodes and Is
Known Everywhere.
WILL OFFICIATE HERE.
Has Been Engaged for the Kan
sas State Show.
Indications Point to Very
Successful Exhibition.

Not many people are acquainted with
the fact that Topeka has one of the best
expert poultry judges in the United
States, but it is so. He is c. H. Rhodes
of North Topeka. who will oficiate at
the Cackle-fest in the Auditorium in
January. Mr.. Rhodes is regularly EN-
ployed in the Santa Fe shops but he
gets out every fall and for several
months is pretty steadily employed by
poultry shows as a judge. This wear
he is buster than ever and is said TO
have turned down offers from the state
associations of Nebraska. Iowa and IL
hnois.
Mr.. Rhodes is a very quiet and unas-
Stunning man. He is also very careless
about his own press agency work. The
officers of the Kansas Poultry associa-
ton have discovered him and are loud
in his praises Mr.. Rhodes has a repu-
tation for fairness and that has Droba-
bly, had more than anything else to do
with his popularity. During the time
he is at work he cleans up about $500
month at poultry judging and doesn't
work hard either. He says he makes
more out of small shows than he does
in lar~e ones.
Prof. Lewis Lindsey Dyche of Kansas
university will judge the points of the
rabbits and Belgian hares placed on ex-
hibition. Prof. Dyche made his repu
tation in other branches of industry but
he knows more about the relative per-
lection of physical development in the
small rodents than anyone else in the
state. When Dyche was boy he hunt
ed considerably and after killing a squir
rel he ordinarily skinned it and exam
ined it's muscles and everything else in
its construction. He did the same with
all the rest of the game he killed. It in
to this that Prot. Dyche attributes his
accurate knowledge of animal anatomy.
Secretary Hughes, of the State Poul
try association, is busy with his cores
here next month. 1t is one of Mr..
Hughes hobbies to make the Topeka
show the great middle west poultry ex
hibit and his ambition is on fair way
to be realized. The interest in the COM
ing show is widespread among poultry
raisers. Most of them were impressed
by the success of the show last winter
and inquiries are now coming from all
over Kansas and not few from other
states More than that several hundred
birds are already promised and it is yet
early in the game. Mr.. Hughes says
he is confident of 1000 birds and expects
$500.
Aside from the regular exhibits Of
chickens, pigeons and rabbits. it is pro-
posed to put in a small Inenagerie OF
coons, monkeys and strange birds. a
'possum will fbe5f incarcerated7 and any
other available bird or beast suitable for
snow or entertainment purposes VIII De
made a part of the si1eshow. If it is
possible this feature will be played up
pretty strongly because it is calculated
to catch the eye of the person less in
terested in good points in poultry. The
other viii be the main show and will be
the most instructive.
Not much attention is paid by the gen
eral public to chicken raising as a sci
ence. This ought to be surprising in
state in which the helpful hen" is SO
important an economic factor. Secretary
F. d Coburn of the department of ag
riculture has devoted one or two reports
to hen culture but the general public
has not followed fast in it's appreciation
of the industry. Since valuable poultry
produces the best eggs it is probably
worth while to raise chickens of <ood
strain. This is what the State Poultry
association is engaged in trying to make
the people see.