The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-07
Array at State Poultry Show
Is Bewildering.
Over Five Thousand athered
Aristocrats There.
NOT APOOR ONEIN LOT
Fancfers Say Exhibition Is Best
on Record.
All Freaks Have Been Elimi-
mated This Year.

The cacklefest given by the Kansas
Poultry association is in full blast at
the auditorium and it is bigger, nois-
| Ter gathering of nobility from the fowl
kingdom than the management of the
! affairs even anticipated. Monday morn
ing the cages resembled long rows of
one story buildings but the superin-
tendent since that time has been COM
pelled to add one or more stories to the
cages and they have now assumed the
proportions OF a business block
The fact OF the matter is that nearly
every inch of the $4,000 square feet of
floor space in the auditorium is now in
use and almost every train brings in
more crates Of fowls. 1t was the inten-
| ton to have the cages of fowls two deep
and two stories in height but the archi-
tect has already been compelled to
change his plans by adding another
story. -Ss
Counting the pigeons as part of the
exhibit there are between five and six
thousand fowls in the building at this
| time. The judging commenced this
| morning and will continue throughout
| the evening and a part of tomorrow
| though the judges hope to have their
| task completed by noon Wednesday.
! The judging of the chickens, ducks,
| turkeys and geese is in the hands of C.
| H. Rhodes of Topeka, J. J. Atherton of
Emporla ana u "A. Emery OF CARNAGE,
Missouri. w. H. Muir of Chicago will
affix the ribbons in the pigeon depart
mentS.
Many of the entries made consist of
from ten to sixty birds and one entry
from Topeka placed in position this
morning contained 81 birds while anoth-
er from out of town passed the half
hundred mark. Some of the birds were
little late in arriving though the
show will be complete by opening time
this evening.
The admission charge has been
placed at ten cents. the same as it
has been since the organization of the
asso citation and this money is ap-
piled to the premium list as the affair
is not a money making venture.
Chicken shows in the past have al
ways been well patronized in Topeka
of fanciers will be larger than ever this
year.
The first thing that impresses a
visitor after he has viewed the i'm
mensity of the exhibit is the quality
of the fowls on exhibition. There is
not a poor bird in the lot" said one of
the men who has been an attendant at
every show for years. land in my ex-
perience I have never seen as fine a
lot of fowls under one roof
The freaks of the fowl kingdom
have been eliminated from this show
and there will be no EXHIBITS of pet
stock as was the case in the last
show given by the association in the
auditorium. There are geese and
ducks of all kinds and turkeys tall
enough to stand f1at-footed and look
into the eyes of half grown boy
without turning their heads.
There are a number of fowls that
the exhibitors have refused to sell
at fancy prices and several of the
birds are valued at from one to three
hundred dollars by their owners and
are not for sale at these prices. The
greater part of today was taken up as
far as the weighmasters are concerned
in ascertaining the weight of the
larger birds as their weight will gov
crn the judges in their decisions. The
weighing however does not apply to
the Mediterranean classes to which
the smaller fowls belong.