The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-25

satisfied with that, show was arrang
ed for in Ellensburg Dec. It'll as cheap
as possible. II. II. Collier was secured
as Judge, and $40 birds were exhibited
by Kittitas county alone, while Tacoma
sold eighteen birds or six trios, and
kittitas has been buying birds by a
steady income since, as a result of the
three days show of the feathered flock.
No one would have believed X ittitas
produced such fine birds until he
seen them on exhibition in the show
room.
Two hundred and fifty copies of the
Northwest Poultry Journal were dis
tributed here while special agent of
the Inland Poultry Journal and of the
Pacific Poultryman sold nearly one
hundred copies of each, to say nothing
of the three hundred copies given to
show visitors.
Businessmen, farmers, laborers and
railroad men have bought fancy poul-
try and by Jan. 30, 1906, Kittit as county
will have more blooded eggs setting
than chickens raised in 1905.
There are more poultry journals cir
culating in Kittitas this year than ever
before, fifty standards of Perfection :"
have been bought by local breeders
and even the local press has INDUCED
in 'Standards' and for what, no one
knows, as there is nothing in them
about editors or papers, What it means
to have a Standard, is that every
breeder in Kittitas this fall will be an
amatuer Judge, will be enabled to Sc
lect from his flock birds corresponding
with the Standard, while last year, it
was all chance mating, but few of
the many knew what a disqualification
meant to the variety he handled. Not
so this year, and if Kittitas gives a
show next fall, it should be far ahead
in quality, of the show of 1905.
Kittitas is now crying to grow fancy
poultry. kittitas is a success in fancy
poultry, but Il blank failure in CONNER
cia poultry. If a chicken car should
be sidetracked here for 5000 birds
| am sure it would take the Union Fish
market three months to fill it, and as
for eggs, we do not produce enough to
supply the restaurants, to say nothing
of the Alaska trade, but while all this
is coming, there wi II be more culs to
sell next fall and still more next if the
kitttas Poultry association does Just
one-tenth in 1906 that it did in 1907
The question was asked why no in
cubators were on display in our show
by local agents who sold "the best ma
chimes on earth" The answer was:
I'VE don't want to be annoyed answer
ing questions and explaining the work
mos of an incubator to inquistive peo-
ple." Well, Kittitas will buy more
incubators this year than ia all former
years put together. Mark my words
In 1901 | spent ninety days in a
northwest county of Arkansas Ar
mour's Packing company bought three
baggage cars of eggs a week, two chick
en- cars, holding 5000 chickens each
per week. were shipped from that
county all the time was there, and we
buy some of those egg here in Ellens-
burg each fall for Christmas.
Seattle spent $2,0O0,000 for eggs and
dressed chickens in 1905 from outside
states. guess there is room for Kit
titas both as a fancy and commercial
poultry producing country. So just let
Kittitas Poultry association grow and
all buy fancy birds that want to do so.
Let Yakima organize a Washington
State Poultry association and give a
local show. There were five poultry
associations in the satte last year:there
are nine now. | am with you,
A CITY LOT FANCIER.