The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-02-01

banquets and 50 far as an empire 10
Washington in the poultry business
IS concerned, our hats have to be taken
of to the Puget Saunders. Just how
long that state Of affairs will exist, de-
ponds upon the amount of interest and
united effort is taken by the breeders
and fancierS of Yakima valley.
When | say Yakima valley, | mean
from Easton to Kennewick)
At the meeting and banquet Of the
Sound breeders all partizan interests
are laid aside. Locality seems to cut
no figure. Mistakes and successes are
freely discussed. New policies are
outlined for the future. If Kittitas,
Yakima and Benton counties ever hold
Il tri-county session of poultry breeders
and Il banquet, | want to be present
and hear what each county has to say
can tell you now that not member
will ever be sorry of the organization
of the Washington State Poultry asso-
citation and all will be insisting that all
exhibit at the state show and help to
make it success, and there is where
kittitas will try her best to lead Yaki-
ma and Benton counties in fancy poul-
try | am persistent for Yakima to
have and to hold the state show every
year. 1t is the center of the district,
five thousand people can be put through
the show and that will enable the asso-
citation to employ two judges and do it
we'll. What we want is central show
where can be collected the birds tf
Central Washington to be judged:
where the larger breeders can get to,
gether and formulate plans to build up
the commercial poultry of the state as
well as improve exhibition stock.
There is no logical reason in one say
ing that the Kitttas show is going to
satisfy the owners of the stock that has
been purchased to improve the flock
for the coming season, for it is not.
Neither can the state fair poultry show
satisfy for it is definitely proven that
we can't get our young stock matured
in season nor can we get our birds to
moult like the Sound and lower Iaki-
ma, they are four to six weeks earlier
than kittitas, and for that reason we
want an inland show in mid-winter
where the larger breeders of the three
central counties named can get togeth-
err and win Il few first prizes by enter
ing half dozen birds, for hut few
of us in Kitttas can send to any show
ten or fifteen ninety-fve point birds,
and it takes ninety-siX point birds to
win at Seattle, Tacoma and Portland,
and it takes local show 10 Ellensburg
to select those birds.
Who can expect to win in the White
Rock class whore Sears and Lakewood
exhibit forty birds each with not one
going under ninety-three and half
points? Who can expect to win in the
Leghorn class where Miller Brothers
show in full sixty birds? Kittitas sends
ninety-Gve and a half point Leghorn
to Tacoma and then gets only second.
Let me tell you the Washington
State Poultry show offers to Kittitas
breeders a big opportunity and we
must arrange to be there next year
with our best birds and it is the defeat
of our associate breeders at the state
show that creates the rivalry in the
three counties, that stimulates to sue
cess the fancy and commercial poultry
interests of Central Washington.
We show our birds, not for money
but to let the buyer know that we have
stock that will improve his flock.
Who wants to go to show with
birds where no rivalry competition is
found, and who wants to 90 to show
like Tacoma 5, where all lirsts are won
by home breeders? | want to come
home with some advertisement, and 1t
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