The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-01-05
POULTRY SHOW (.
SHOULD Be GOOD

Inc poultry snow winch Deg n IN
the old armory on Wednesday, January
10, promises to be better than any pre-
vious one held here. New strains have
been bred and some of the old ones
have been improved to an extent that
would attract attention anywhere. Mr..
Green, secretary of the association, has
a new line of black minorcas and Mr..
Ables has brought his white minorcas,-
Plymouth Rock and games to a state
of perfection that would warrant their
being placed on exhibition in Madison
Square Garden. DR.. High and Walter
Wall have also much to be proud of
in their birds. The yards of Mr.. Ables,
at the corner of Kewalo and Wilder
avenue are within view of the cars and
when his chickens are given the free
dom of the front lot they attract a
great deal of attention from the pas
sengers. Mr. Ables is vice president of
the association and crank on the sub
ject of white chickens. He has pen
of white Plymouth Rocks pretty enough
to be kept in room and his games
are very probably the best in the Ter
ritory.
Owing to other business commanding
the attention of E. C. Brown, president
of the association, most of the work
connected with the exhibition this year
has fallen upon J. J. Greene, the secre-
tary, and Mr.. Ables, and they hava as
surances of larger number of birds
for the show than last year. Judge
Andrews of Fresno will arrive from
the Coast on the Lurline and this year
he will score by the card rather than
by comparison, plan that does not
meet with the approval of all the fam
clers. In speaking of poultry shows,
in his yards the other day, Mr.. Ables
remarked that there seems to be an
impression here that they were gotten
up mainly for the purpose of enabling
growers to sell their eggs and chickens.
Gas a business there is little or moth
| ing in it for the man who breeds fancy
! birds, ~ he said. 81 have put great
deal more in my yard during the past
| year than / will get out of it in two
but / seem to have fad that won It
work off and / am constantly trying
to better the breeds of birds I have.
This is the case with other fanciers
and we hope to. encourage others to
discard their scrub hens and raise some
thing better. l cannot see the logic
of raising three pound chickens when
it does not cost any more to raise
them to weigh ten. 1t is all in the
breeding and the care given the birds
when they are young; they, can be fed
for weight and fed for eggs, and 1 would
rather have cockerel on the table at
eight pounds than one that required a
magnifying glass to find the meat on
him.
"We fanciers believe there is not
a Japanese in the country who would
not grow better breeds than he does
NOW if he was assured that the ex.
pense was not greater. The same with
the Chinese, and l mention the people
of these races because they sell lots
of chickens in Honolulu
Mr.. Ables weighed, witb-a good deal
ofPride, white Plymouth Rock rooster
that tipped the scales, at ten pounds
and three others each weighing nine
His game birds are also very heavy
and are considered among the best util
ity birds raised because they are meaty
and good layers. His pens are kept
in splendid condition and free from
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Pacific, as does Australia and New Zea
land, for more copra to feed them.