Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19

Big Strides in Poultry
Industry Of the State
~ oULTRY fanciers and poultry
~ raisers havo devoted u consid-
cradle portion OF the year to the

IN OGLAh 2IanSlcrs tlliu pouitIy
~ raisers llavp devoted IL consid-
cradle portion OF the year to the
study OF the theory Of breeding
and interbreeting with the end In View
of producing a quality suited to the
climate. With IL great many breeders
who look to tho commercial side OF
poultry raising, tho Salt Lake market
still has to draw for It's supply from
eastern growers This Is ono thing
that the Utah men are trying to
change. They want to see the Utah
markets supplied with Utah brtdi.
This is u difficult proposition from
more than one standpoint. In the first
place. the Utah climate, say poultry
raisers. Is not adapted to raising the
more common varieties of birds and for
one other reason interurban communi-
cation with towns near salt Lake City,
the natural market center has not
reached the stage where the birds may
be sent to market III anything like the
way they are hoping will obtain in
very short time. Express and freight
charges on small consignments are
prohibitive. they say, too, and to bring
them 80 miles or more in wagons is far
from profitable. So they are looking to
two principal changes In the situatlon:
First. they are looking for that artifl-
cial breed that is best adapted to this
climate ana then they are looking for
the opening up Of interurban COM
n int
close proximity to Salt Lake City. This,
they say, will solve tile question for all
time. If the two combine, the Utah
poultry raiscrs will be in the exact sit
uation they are looking forward to;
IL either one OF these conditions pre-
walls, then tho situation is cleared up,
but there Will still DO something to
hope for.
In tho development OF the poultry
situation, the breeders OF fine birds who
consider merely the commercial sido of
the proposition are close friends OF
the fancier. The fancicr who breeds
fine birds only from the lovo OF tho
birds and who is Interested in the re-
suits he obtains from the inter- breed
ing merely as results-a fad in shorter
phrasins--is watched with keen inter-
est by the poultry raiscrs. 1t Is often
the result obtained by the fanccr
which gives the breeder the find
he has been waiting for for many
months. 1t is upon the suggestion OF
the fancier that many successes of act
ual poultry raising for market have
been founded.
RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Now the result of development OF
chickens in Utah has been in the unan-
ilnous decision that the Rhode Island
Reds are the nearest approach to the
ideal that has so far appeared as the
result of careful interbreeding. This
prince in his class combines tho quail
ties most sought In % market chicken:
Tho hon has the laying quality. the
activity that Is needed to hunt for it's
food, the weight for market. The aim
of fanciers was to get a chicken with
the weight of the Asiatic and the
egg producing Qualities Of the Mediter-
tranean In its day, popularity has fol-
lowed down the line from the Plym-
outh Rocks to the Leghorns, thence to
the White Wyandottcs and now to the
Rhode Island Reds.
Thus step by stop progression has
been noted in the exhibits made at the
state fairs. A. few years ago all in
terest conferred in the Barred Plymouth
Rocks and the White variety in the
Same class. Then came the Leghorns.
brown and white. These were thrifty
in the laying OF eggs, but were light in
weight. Then came the Wyandottes
with bulk and also with q fair egg-lay-
Ing propensity. Now it is the RhoG"
Island Red and in it is combined tho
ideal desired: eggs and weight in the
sarne bird. The time has not far passed
when breeders would say that a fat
chicken would not lay eggs and that
an egg-laying chicken could not be