Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-26
CLASSY POULTRY
ON DRESS PARADE
Judging OF Fancy Chicks the Or
der OF the Day at An
nual Show.
OPENS TO PUBLIC TOMORROW
Nine Hundred Gay Birds of Pedigree
Aud style win Show Their Rib
bon. Remainder of Week

Tomorrow morning the people OF
salt Lake who arc interested in classy
poultry win have am opportunity To
Sec the prize birds of Utah go through
their paces To-day the interest for
owners is at its hlshest pitch and this
viii have comparatively subsidized be-
fore the interest Of the public come
menccs.
What Is making the rooms ~ the
eighteenth annual poultry show tense
with Interest s. the judg.ug Owners
have groomed their birds Ions On am
uciaption Of blue ribbons. and never
before have so many birds been on
hand Tor the same ribbons. ln the
last show the pouitcf poultry pens
from ogden gathered lu first place in
the most popular class, O IA. Hewlett
with q specially imported prize winner
from Missouri following by close
margin. Hewlctts bird arrived late
and had To- 90 direct from the car to
the show pen. This year De Us ON hand
boo the gaycst regalia that year of
Titan care could develop but no Poul-
ter competition haas appeared from
ogden. Whether the Missouri bird viii
SIN lead over the youngsters that have
been bred in Utah is % question not
decided as Judge Hemuch had not
vet began Co score the Rhode Island
Reds st noon
NINE HUNDRED ENTRIES.
The show rooms OF The poultry as
ISOLATION are ON east Second South
street There are 500 birds entered.
which is about the same number that
were entered last year The feature
of the year is the passing OF the White
Rock variety I'm popularity over the
Barred Rock variety. A few years ago
poultry show would have been COM
posed OF Barred Plymouth Rocks. land
others" Then the White WyandOtte
forged 90 the front as a new Am
eriCon breed. iu which eating qualities
combined with laying qualities and ap-
peaiance made 10 a faNorite. Two
wears ago az tine annual show the
Rhode Island Reds made "a first bow
for recognition. They were there ia
promising numbers but not in numbers
sufficient 10 theaten the lead ~
Whites Last year however, they held
tho center OF interest. as there were
more Of them than the Wyand0ttes By
"a small margin This year there are
more by large margin I'm the mean
while the Barred Rocks have passed
one point further towards re rear.
while the now White Rock breed is
working It's way towards the 'front.'
Little tragedies of the judging oc-
cur la each show. and this year the
particular one that is causing the
owners TO laugh at the unlucky victim
ls the sad fate Of Secretary Saunders
Saunders keeps pens Of White VIVIAN
dots a. Belts does the same thing
and both are keen competitors for
prizes. As his flock OF young birds
showed their prizc-wnning form.
saunders sized up those he most
wanted for the show. Then he sold
the others. and his rival, Belts, bought
one Today Saunders saw blue
ribbon pinned ON the cage ia which
his sold bird was kept. while his
own favorue was passed by without
even the yellow symbol OF fourth place.
TWO HUNDRED REDS.
|. The Reds this year total 200 entries,
while there are 1870 OF the white Wyau-
dottes. second in order OF popularity.
Or &. O.. Plummer. who has always
won first prizes Tor his pens OF Bun
OrpIngtons this year has encountered
unexpected opposition Judge j. j.
Whitaker has come forward with a pen
of OrpinRtons. and the various owners
are watching the outcome with inter-
est To- see what impression this new
breeder win make on Pilummer's string
NA NlIiAAliNaHs
Judge ID. r Heinrich. who D. today
at work making awards. has twice bee
fore Judged Utah shows He comes
from Jacksonville. 49,. and is the lead
ing poultry judge OF the west This
show" De said this morning is
good sample It's birds are the same
classes that predominant in most OF
the shows. But lis Reds arc excep-
uoual ] have never encountered $50
many good examples of excellent breed
/ Ing this class as ] have found here boo
! Salt Lake. The poultry business is as
l vet merely Boo its infancy. n is making
/ great strides iu the states cast of Utah.
/ and n Missouri last year it came with
1 in S20O00J OF being worth 500 600 900 in
4 the appraised valuation of its stock
] Ina the country at large the business
I is worth S60o00000O. American breeds
aro replacing the OLDER breeds. especial
I ly for meat producing varieties For
eggs the Leghoru and MInorca classes
sull maintain thoir usefulness. aud are
| used extensively 90 stock egg producing
| ranches
/ The poultry show win remain open
/ after tomorrow morning until saturday
evening