Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-13
POULTRY SHOW
THE BEST EVER
Nearly One Thousand Birds Are
Gathered at Utah's An
nual Show.
RHODE ISLAND REDS IN LEAD.
Contest for Second Place This Year Is
Between Wyandottcs and the
White Rocks.

Nearly 1000 birds, representing the
best that Utah fanciers could produce.
are To-Day Mapping their well sroomed
wings and raising their loduest voices
In praise OF Utah's poultry progress
The birds sit In individual and FAM
lily cages so that all the big Wyan-
dotte cockerel can do Is to shake ms
neck feathers at the Rhode Island
Red across the way and cackle mes
sage to him about the color OF the I'D
bon pinned over his enclosure.
There are all kinds of birds In the
show, which is opened at 1922 south
Main street birds TO eat, birds to look
pretty, birds that have famous laying
records, birds with every color of the
rainbow on their plumage. and
big top knot to shake at you when you
tell them they're real pretty, and even
pigeons that walk on home grown Suits
twice as long as their bodies.
one thing is peculiarly feature.
1t Is the fact that the Rhode Island
Reds this year completely distance
all others In the number of entries.
Chicken fashions change. Not many
years ago the Plymuoth Rocks neld
this honor against all Corners. Then
the Wyandottes sent the Rocks to re-
tlrement, and now the Reds are send
ing the Wyandottes back with their
predecessors In favor. Last year 1t
was neck and neck finish between
these two breeds, the year before 1t
was easy victory for the Wyandottes,
FOR SECOND PLACE.
The contest for second place this
year is between the Wyandottes and
the White Rocks an accidental breed
which has been built up from two white
chicks that happened In a family of
Barred Plymouth Rocks about 20 years
ago. This, like the two others, Is an
American breed of fowl.
But foreign countries have repre-
sentatives. DIR. Plummer. president or
the association. sticks by the English
Buff Orpingtons, and year after year
he has swept the board of ribbons In
this variety The English Orpingtons
represent work in that country to get
the same effects as the American peo-
pie have tried for with their breeds
that is hen to lay a worlds record
string of eggs. and at that same time
look respectable, and be worth eating.
The handicaps OF developing the ideal
bird of this kind have been the fact
that Minorcas and Leghorns, both from
the Mediterranean countries, carried
themselves lightweight. and were hard
ly worth the eating while their egg
yield twice passed the Asiatics, which
in turn were the most excellent broll-
ers.
RHODE ISLAND REDS.
In the Rhode Island Reds, who strut
about in such predominating numbers,
Salt Lakers will see at the show, the
final word to date on this particular
topic.
To one who wishes to study poultry
the show has interest from whatever
l.. .,t,a IL 1afa
fanciers there are a score OF pens OF
freak birds, which are grown just as
freakish as fanclers could grow them,
Just to prove to what extremes they
could go. Then there are the fowls to
eat--the larger Brahmas, langshans,
and Cochins, that make good broilers
and poor layers. and Leghorns that lay
well and are great rangers, and the
Plymuoth rocks that still have their
admirers in spite OF the fact that they
are fewer each year.
In pigeons n display that SURPRISES
all previous shows is on exhibit. the
pigeon breeders having combined to
make the best possible showing.
More exhibits than ever this year
come from large farms, outside OF Salt
Lake. Heretofore the northern part
of the state has been only scantily rep
resented. and this show mars the end
CHICKEN STATISTICS.
"The big poultry ranch declares DIR.
C. G. Plummer, rs the next thing In
order In Utah poultry development.
The state spends 100000 annually for
imported chickens and chicken prod
ucts. We might as well keep this money
at home, and the way to do il will be TO
start large poultry ranches. So far we
have done splendidly to develop breeds,
and these annual shows give the pros
pective poultry raisers many pointers
on standards and varieties. To apply
the suggestions to be received here, to
the practical problem of raising chick
ems on "a large scale Is the next thing
In order. The day of the chicken as
barnyard product Is passing.
Judge Hcmich is pinning ribbons on
the birds this afternoon. and 1t Ia ex-
pected that by tomorrow they viii be
tagged In their various coups, and their
owners viii be recognizable by broad
smile of winner or the shrunken
countenance Of one who tried and lost.
Birds are scored on standard of 100
for perfection but birds rarely receive
over "a. while any mark over 80 Is well