The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-12
LEAVES THEM ALL
Kansas Poultry Show Grows to
Mammoth Size.
Distances Those Held in Chicago
and st. Louis.
VISITORS SURPRISED.
Say That They Have Never Seen
Anything Like 1t.
More COOps Are Yet to Be Added
to Displays.
VISITORS SURPRISED.

The Kansas poultry show is the Iarg-
est Topeka ever had, and the biggest
the west ever had. It is bigger than
the shows at Kansas City, or ST. Louis,
or Chicago. It is so big that they don't
know how they will get it all inside of
the Auditorium, without clearing the
balcony, and using some of the space
up there. Already the coops are up
in double and triple tiers around the
big room, and there are two full car
loads of coOpS which have not yet ar
rived. They are somewhere between
Kansas City and Topeka. when they
come says Secretary Hughes, wen
be ready for them. I think I can see
daylight now, but I couldn't for
while"
w. S. Russell of Ottumwa, Ia, man
who is in newspaper work for a regular
business, but who makes about $50 a
day on the side judging chicken shows,
is here working as judge of the Amer
lean classes OF poultry. He has Off
ciated at fourteen shows this season,
including Chicago and st. Louis He
says:
This is the biggest show I have at
tended as judge. 1t is a crackerjack.''
Charles G. Woodwork of Omega, Ok,
the biggest exhibitor at the show, who
has been taking in all the chicken cir
cult with about $50 birds, says:
THE show here is the biggest and
best have seen yet"
This man Woodwork, by the way, is
deserving of more than passing notice
He is the one whose two carloads of
birds are tied up somewhere between
expected at any time and will doubt
less be on exhibition Wednesday. His
exhibit of $50 birds comprises II varie-
ties. He not only will have entries in
almost every class provided by the To-
peka show, but in a lot of other classes
for which no prizes are offered. There
are 20 different kinds of bantams. Mr..
Woodwork has them all. and will ex-
hibit II of them here. He has just
finished cleaning up the big end of the
prizes at Kansas City. There he ex-
/ hibited seven varieties of water fowls,
and was awarded the Schmelzer Arms
company trophy cup for that class. The
seven varieties will be part of his To-
pelza exhibit.
"How did I get into the chicken bus
| iness?" said Mr.. Woodwork this morn
ing. well, took it up first as pas
time, and kept adding new lines until
I now have considerable money invest
ed in the business. I have IL miles CT
wire netting fence in my chicken pens,
| besides the fencing on the larger tracts
My largest chicken house is 40 feet
| long, but most of the houses are built
square, in the center @of four square
yards, SO that each breed of chickens
has a quarter of the house. Yes, find
that the exhibition business pays. II
about and exhibit my birds, but 1 get
enough in premiums to compensate me
besides the sales which 1 make. 1 also
| buy heavily at these sales. I usually
buy the entire stock of several exhibit
tors. raise all kinds of poultry, and
almost oil breeds of chickens find q
place in my yards
/ There are a lot Of women exhibitors
at the Topeka show. Mrs. Henry
Shrader. of Berlin. Neb., is the largest
exhibitor. She has about 80 entries
mostly ducks. geese and turkeys. Mrs
Shrader is expecting to move hel
poultry yards to Waunetta. Kas., after
February 1.
Next to Mr. Woodwork, ]. R. Young
is the biggest exhibitor. He has &C
Barred Plymouth Rocks. Barred Plym-
outh Rocks are his speciality There
are said to be $40 entries here in this
one class. It is the largest class in the
show, and is the old reliable kind of &
fowl that everybody is interested in.
/ The management of the poultry show
is looking for some tremendous crowds
this week. They have got the goods
and as soon as people know it, they viii
come in droves to see. The admission
is only 10 cents, and at this rate the
10000 admissions. Monday the crowC
was small, but so was the show. To
day, almost everything is in place, anC
the attendance today will probably
reach 1000. Beginning tomorrow, how
ever TIE big crowds are expected TIL,
best time to see the show is in tn
morning, when the crowd is not quit,
SO thick.
LIST OF 40 EXHIBITORS.
There is an unusually heavy list O
exhibitors. Exactly 40 different peopl
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