The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-03
LOT
Of FEATHERS
Ever Shown in Yakima Will Be at
Poultry Display Here Next
Week, According to Signs

Beyond question the seventh an
ISOLATION, to be held January s to
13, will be a hummer. The birds
will be cooped in the store room in
the Oddfellows' hall. which is being
rebuilt for the Barnes-Wood COM
pany. This will give the association
the best show room it has ever had
in its history. Members are now at
work constructing an entire equip
ment of new coops and present indi-
cations are that in number and quail
ity the birds will exceed any previous
effort ever made here. The chicken
has taken hold in Yakima county
and the fanciers here have produced
some of the best birds to be found
in this state. Not only that, but the
judges have remarked, year after
year, that the best birds of this state
class with the best to be found in
any state of the union.
Yakima Proves Herself
1t has been the habit for years
past for King or Pierce county to
come to Yakima to the poultry de-
partment of the state fair and walk
away with the county prize. This
year they fell down miserably. So
great had been the increase In the
local interest in poultry that Yakima
won In a walkaway. Its birds out
pointed the best brought here to go
against them. And the poultry bus
mess is no fad. 1t is a money maker
for those who take hold right. The
tte,itn
for the fancier and the award Of
the judge means money in the pock-
ct of the winner. The contest is the
real thing and the excitement Is
som ething that the initiated cannot
appreciate.
New fanciers win show this year
in large numbers. Leading citizens
and citizenesses have taken up the
matter OF poultry culture, have gone
abroad or among the home breeders
Tor the best obtainable stock and
have raised a number of individuals
which it is believed will be hard to
beat The list of exhibitors will be
surprise to many who do mot
know what their neighbors are en-
deavoring. There will be a thousand
birds on exhibition and they will en-
brace all kinds of feathered stock
Including pigeons, waterfowl and
turkeys as well as chickens. The
birds shown will have an aggregate
vale of fifteen or twenty thousand
dollars. Some are not for sale at
any price.
Entries Close Thursday
Entries for the show will close on
Thursday next. Entries may be
made with the secretary. c. e. Zir-
kle, or may be left at the store of
Messrs. Morgan & McKaig. The pre-
MUM list may be obtained there or
from any hardware store in the city.
The entries close Thursday at mid
night, which means that they must
be in the hands of the secretary at
that time. The superintendent
of the show will be A. r. Linse and
the Judge will be Elmer Dixon. These
names to the fancier carry their own
guarantee of care and proper decis-
ions IN those departments. H. w.
Sprague Is president of the associa-
ton, l.. D. Green and C. III. Hum
phrey are the vice presidents, d. A.
Gillette is treasurer, and Messrs Zir-
kle and L1nse, as named, are secre-
tary and superintendent respectively.
In addition to these, Mrs. e. S. Hill
and Dr. F. NJ Rossiter are members
of the executive committee.
Prizes VIII Be Cash
Cash prizes are offered, $3.50 for
first, $100 for second, and fifty cents
for third. In addition, there will be
eight special cash prizes of IS EACH
Also there will be awarded sixteen
silver cups A special prize In which
every exhibitor at the show will have
a chance is a buckeye incubator CIV
en- by the Morgan-McKaig Go.
The sale of eggs from classy stock
last year brought several thousand
dollars into the Yakima valley and
that alone is but one side of the in
dustry.