The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-06


J. c. Baughman of Topeka is a poul-
try fancier Of note. His Bun Cochin
chickens have won ribbons at st. Louis
enough to win anywhere. Mr.. Baugh-
man has been repeatedly urged to
show in Madison Square Garden. A
number Of his chickens are worth al
much as one hundred dollars each. He
has forty breeding hens.
L. p. Hubbard. near the Country
club, sent a string of his Silver
Wyandottes to Fort Worth. Tex. and
won nearly everything for which he
entered. His birds were awarded rib
bons at the Iowa State show In Des
Moines last January. Mr.. Hubbard
makes the poultry business pay.
Charles Lungene, who runs the
of Seabrook, is in the poultry BUSH
ness as a side issue. He keeps Buzz.
Black and White Orpingtons-
May Enter World Contest.
J. K. Thompson and John O'Gara
in Auburndale are breeders Of Barred
Plymouth Rocks as a side issue. MI.
O'Gara has built up an egg bearing
prizes at the State fair, Topeka, last
September. He has been able to
combine the utility and fancy side OF
poultry breeding. 1t is possible that
he will enter a pen Of hens for the
national egg laying contest which has
been conducted for three years by the
state Of Missouri at Mountain Grove.
One hundred pens of ten birds each
are competing this year. An English
pen won last year and Is leading this
year. The next contest which MI.
O'Gara may enter will start in No
vember and run for year.
Dr. ]. B. .eArey has a fve-acro
tract on West Tenth avenue that is
well equipped for poultry, pigs and
fruit-intensive farming in other
words. White Plymouth Rocks are
handled on this tract. H. b. McClosh
is in charge.
r. r.. Shelter, ITO Harrison, a
barber by trade. is a breeder Of White
Plymouth Rocks. His birds won rib
bons at Leavenworth, Kansas City
and Independence shows last season.
a., A Leader in the West.
F. A. Rehkoph. on the Burlingame
road, west of the city. breeder of
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, IL
recognized as one Of the leading
8. s. Jackson, recently OF Baldwin,
Kan, has a twenty-acre poultry and
fruit farm two miles east OF Topeka
Partridge Wyandottes and Buff Or
pingtons are the breeds In which he
specializeS.
win. and who formerly lived in Fort
Scott keeps Sicilian Buttcrcup chickens.
This Is a foreign breed of egg producing
fowls discovered in the island of Sicily.
E. D. Hartzell of Rossville is a fancier.
breeder and utility man. He produces
Houdans, and special Black Lang
shans. and sells breeding stock and
Matching.
Chance to Make Money.
The opportunity of making money az
commercial poultryman in Shawnee
county is growing. The market is ex-
cellent and the field y broad. The
fancier does not make as much money
as in former years. and usually takes
interest in his birds as a side issue. +
Only a few of the many breeders of
pure bred fowls in Shawnee county
are mentioned in this article. There
arc hundred or more right here in
Topeka who would be deserving OF spe-
cia1 mention would space permit. The
scrub birds are being placed in the dis
card, and the farmers of Shawnee
county are beginning to realize that
pure bred poultry pays In the long run.
+. L. g.
EDITORS note: This IL the seventh of
series Of articles on agriculture in
Shawnee county.1