The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-31
M0KSTERTURKEY
At WORLDS FAIR
Jumbo Would Make a Royal
Thanksgiving Feast
TOO BIC TO Be TENDER
JOHN AND JANE WITNESS
pssELlGHT OF BALDWIN'S Ala-
SHIP, THE "CALlFORNIA
ARROW FROM THE
GROUNDS.
Special to The Bulletin.

Special to The Bulletin.
st. Louis, Oct. EFF such fancy
poultry breeders as Millionaire Geo
w. Vanderbilt are not soon restrain
ed we will soon have turkeys as large
as ostriches, and farmers will hitch
them to carts and plows don't
see how any good can come from
breeding turkeys that may be li&ed
for beasts OF burden, unless we arc
going to eat some other kind of bird
On Thanksgiving.
A $500 Turkey.
This was Johns comment on gaz-
ing at Jumbo" the mammoth tur-
key entered by Mr.. Vanderbilt at the
Worlds fair poultry, pigeon and pei
stock show, which Is now in progress
here. And Jumbo" would inl1ed
make royal Thanksgiving Day feast
for several families that is, II he is
tender, and he certainly looks too big
to be tender John wondered how
they would so about it to kill the bird
ii they wanted TO eat him and finally
concluded that nothing but good
rife would finish him. The thing
that disturbed Jane was the number
Of loaves of bread that it would take
to make the "stuffing' for him. jun
DO weighs lifty-one pounds and is val
ued at $500 re was bred at Bilt-
more, n. c.. and his coop is covered
with trophies which he has won at
other poultry shows
Another famous prizo-winner from
Biltmore farm is Lady Edith" a
white Plymouth Rock hen winner al
the big poultry show al Charleston, s.
c., and first In fifteen state shows,
and for which Mr.. Vanderbilt refused
$500
The Live Stock Barns.
If you want to get away from the
babel'iof me5aphones and the crowds
~ the,exhibt palaces for a few hours
go over the hill past the floral clock,
through the agricultural and horticul,
tural buildings to the live stock barns
beyond. Instead of the megaphone
chorus the noise of growing. screcca-
ing, quacking, gobbling and barking
will greet your ears Entering one
Of the numerous barns and passing
between long rows OF coops, YOU soon
forget You are at the Worlds fair
and find yourself deeply. absorbed in
Inc fascinating industry Of breeding
fancy poultry and all that pertains to
The business.
/" Value of Exhibits is S25o,ooo.
II is the largest poultry show ever
held in any country, the fowls mum
lering 10000 and filling twenty Of the
Dig barns of the live stock grounds.
The barns are each over one hundred |
Get long and there arc six rows of
white cotes in each. Placed end to |
ND the coops Of this great collection
Il "blue-blooded" poultry would
each over three miles. The total
'alue of the exhibits, am told. is
'ver $250000 and the exhibitors rep |
csent an industry that nets over |
800, 100000 annually in the United |
states alone. The leading breeds |
represented are the white Wyan.
ottes. Buff Plymouth Rock, White
.oghorn and the Barred Plymouth
,cck. There are coops here from
rance, England Germany and Bel
ium. One of the interesting fea.
ures is the daily Matching OF 500
dickens by incubators. During the
how 10000 chicks will be turned out
rom hundred incubators.
AS we emerged from one of the
arms on our way to the dog show
ur attention was directed TO a Curl
us looking cigarshaped BALLOON with
whirling propeller at one end and
ulder at the other. II was Bald
,in's aiTship, we we're told, and the
rst one to make the fight from the
xposition grounds. II circled around
ic exposition buildings, apparently /
by the man who could be
lainly seen in the framework under
&c balloon. II gradually arose to
he height Of a mile, sailed away over
he city of st. Louis and was finally
yet to sight.
LITTLE EGYPT"