The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-04
POULTRYMEN
READY To SHOW
Judging by Points viii Be the
Method Used Here This
Year.

The Hawaiian Poultry Association
will hold its annual exhibition in this
city on January s, 9 and 10, and new
features which have never before been
seen in this city. will be introduced.
The principal one of these will be an
exhibit of pigeons. which should prove
of great interest here, where there
are many birds of this kind.
The Board of Agriculture and For
estry. the Hawaii Experiment station
and the Farmers Institute Of Ha-
wall, will all cooperate this year, as
they did in the shows of 1907, and this
will ensure success. The method of
judging, which has been by COMPARE
son for the past two years, win be
changed and the score card method
will be used in its place. This means
that every specimen, when not dis
qualified, will be scored by points, thus
showing the owner his birds weak
and strong points in each section.
Besides the elegant ribbon prizes,
which were specially designed for the
purpose in the East, there will be cash
prizes offered in every variety and
class. There will also be special cash
prizes and cups.
The object of the Poultry Associa-
ton is to stimulate friendly rivalry in
poultry culture which will have the
effect of producing fine specimens in
the many breeds and varieties, without
sacrificing utility features. The pre-
MUM list and rules which will govern
the exhibition will soon be ready and
those intending to exhibit should lose
no time in selection of their birds for
competition, that they may be in the
best of form.
Walter c. Weldon, of this city, is
one of the largest breeders here and
has imported birds from the most
noted f1ocks in the world. Among his
recent importations, flock of "Crys-
tal' White Orpingtons, a strain de-
veloped by Ernest and Robert Keller
strass of Kansas City, are in the very
lead of the Orpingtons today.
This flock is headed by the noted
Crystal King a fourteen pound bird
which was a first prize winner at the
Crystal Palace show, London, in 1906,
also first prize winner at Madison
Square Garden, New York, in 1907. He
is valued at $4,000 and is undoubtedly
at the head of the list of high priced
birds in the world today; he is in
excellent company, for in the same
yards are ten other birds, three males
and seven females, valued at $4,000, the
entire eleven birds being valued at
$1,000 Princess Louise, of this flock,
laid 236 eggs in 365 days, at the same
time secured the blue ribbon in the
show room, and is valued at $500.
Birds from these pens have recently
secured fourteen out of the possible
twenty premiums, in their class, at the
jamestown Exposition, competing
against birds from England, Canada
and the entire United States.
The Crystal Orpingtons mature
early and are great layers; a record
of 257 eggs from a single hen in year,
having been established.
At the laying contest in Australia,
open to the world and to all breeds,
the White Orpingtons took the lead,
winning the first three prizes. and the
winning pen averaged $50 eggs per bird
per year.
The White Orpingtons grow large,
produce fine grained, juicy meat, are
gentle and do well in close confine-
ment: are stately and have a fine form
and beautiful feathering: hence they
excel at all points. The White Or
pingtons have come to the front TO
stay, and the breeder who has pen
| of them may well be proud of his pos
session.
This present importation is undoubt-
eddy the most valuable one ever i'm
ported here, and our poultry men are
to be congratulated that Mr.. Weldon
has secured two tries from the leading
strain of these remarkable birds. This
is great acquisition to our poultry
interests, as the stock from these birds
will be procurable, and our island
breeders will have an opportunity TO
improve the laying qualities of their
poultry f1ocks.
Mr.. weldon has some others on the