The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-14
HONOLULU EGG LAYERS
DO THEMSELVES PROUD
Hen Aristocracy and Pick of Pigeondom on
Exhibition in National Guard
Rifle Gallery.

Three hundred birds, representing the
hen aristocracy of Honolulu and the
upper ten in pigeondom, are growing,
clucking or cooling at the poultry show,
now in full feather in the new National
Guard rifle gallery, on Miller street.
The exhibition is good one, probably
the best so far held in the Islands, both
in the number of fine birds in the ccops
and the quality shown in the different
classes. In addition to the fine display
of poultry, there are some excellent gov
eminent exhibitions, one from the Fed
eral Experiment Station, another from
the Board of Agriculture and Forestry,
while some good commercial exhibits
help ont in making the exhibition one
decidedly worth visiting.
Probably the variety of hen best rep
resented in the show is the white Ply
mouth Rock, although the Orpingtons,
Leghorns, Wyandottes and Rhode Is
lands include number of fine birds.
The Rhode Island whites, exhibited by
j. johnson and Jason Andrade, attract
ed a good share of attention, being
birds new in Honolulu. c.. M. Cooke
Jr. took lion 8 share of the barred
rock ribbons, while l.. c. Ables, DIR. C..
b. High, John Cullen, Frank Santos, R.
G. Brown, Mrs. S. l. Shaw and J. j.
Greene figure prominently in the list
of winning exhibitors.
In addition to the domestic brands
- of cluckers,~ the exhibition contains a
number of birds of the unusual types.
A couple of the coops hold Frizzles,
fowls that have had their feathers
stuck in backwards; next to these is
a Silky, a proud looking little white
cock with long hair-or what looks like
hair. There are several magnificent
black Minorca cocks, running to white
gills and red combs and stepping high
in their limited quarters, while with
them are the demure hens of the
harems, their combs pulled veil-like and
modestly over their faces. The white
crested black Polish egg-layers sport
Paderewski top-knots, looking like
sports in contrast to the domesticated
Orpingtons in the adjoining sections.
The pigeon display attracts a great
deal of attention and is generally first
class in respect to the quality of the
entries, there being a score of breeds
from the sleek carriers to the beruffed
Jacobins and the swollen pouters.
Agricultural Exhibits.
In the exhibit prepared by the Fed
eral Experiment Station are a large
number of interesting things. The cen
trail display is made up of cotton, tobac
co and rubber. the first giving an ex
eellent idea of the quality of the prod
net that can be grown here. Three
kinds are shown-sea island, Chinese
upland and caravonica-the first being
decidedly the superior of the other two
A sample of this cotton was recently
forwarded to the cotton experts al
Washington, who pronounce it the finest
ever sent to them for examination
With the cotton is shown a miniature
gin.
Bales of rice hay and rice straw ar,
shown and it is the hope of DR.. Wilcox
to be able to call the attention of the
cavalry forage buyers to these. The
hay is stated to be equal to the bes
wheat hay, while the straw is of gooC
quality. If market can be found fo
this latter it will be big help to thu
rice planters, who now burn it up t.
get rid of it around their fields.
The honey industry is well repre-
sented, hive of busy bees being par
of the exhibit, beside the hive bein!