Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-24
FIRST POULTRY
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entirely and In 1872 the American
Poultry association was organized to
compile or make standard of per-
lection, sane rule by which to Judge
birds. From this first small beginning
the next year there were shows spring
ing up all over the country and Cedar
Rapids was among one of the first of
these early shows in the United
States. The business then grew by
leaps and bounds and as far back as
1876 breeders paid as high as $3.50
to $500 for a bird and 50 an egg or
$50 a setting. In 1878 B. U. Pierce,
we'll known judge, scored a black
Hamburg at 80 points, at the Chica-
60 show. The first poultry paper was
the old Poultry World and appeared
in 1873 for the first issue. A system
of pedigreen was used then for poul-
try after very much the same fashion
as is in vogue now with cattle, horses
and sheep, registering them under a
name and tracing their family his
tory.
Makes Great Growth.
In telling of the rapid strides which
the business is making the speaker
said that there was a certain spirit
of craftsmanship which must enter
into the work; that the man who could
not see the good points in his competl-
tors birds, who was not good loser,
was not Of the proper nature to be
a breeder or fancier. He told OF
eighty-two shows being held in Hi
nois last year, of incubators being
used which Matched 100000 chickens,
so many that a double boxed wagon
was necessary to haul away the egg
shells. He said that in Chicago and
other congested centers of population
the supply was far short of the de-
mand and that one breeder sold 40
900 baby chicks in three weeks from
little shop on business street IN
Chicago, on the morning that he open
ed his store people being lined up for
block in an effort to make their pur-
chases. Another supplies eggs to
large lake shore hotel at forty cents
dozen for the entire year and an
other, who is given premium OF ten
cents a dozen above the regular Tues
day morning market price and re-
ceives on an average Of thirty-nlne
cents a dozen for his eggs the whole
year around. In New York the Certi-
fed Farmers Products Co. has been
organized in which the city men buy
butter, eggs and poultry and then re-
sell them to their fellow townspeople.
Mr. Hall said that with the man.
moth incubators, the training to be
had by reading matter, the extension
work Of the universities and expert
mental stations, the institute work at
the poultry shows. the present day
breeders are given better chance to
know how to produce and market
their goods than others did ten or less
years ago. In speaking of the colo
storage egg proposition the speaker
stated that he was of the opinion that
the buying public was gradually be-
coming better educated to the fact
that it was not such bad thing after
ALL The fact that better eggs could
be produced in larger quantities IN
the natural breeding season If the
hen was not forced during the winter
months was emphasized and he advo-
Gated the 'roster swatting" idea as 1t
is a we'll known fact that an infertlle
egg will never spoil in cold storage.
He said that he did not believe that
in the next few years the fanclers
would get the exorbitant prices which
they have been getting in the past ten
years; that the business would settle
to a safer and saner basis and that
there would be a great demand for
the goods of medium priced dealers.
Exhibit Specials.
Largest bird being shown-White
Plymouth Rock; weight, IL lbs;
sWhite King" shown by ]. B. With
row, Floris.
Smallest bird being exhibited-Buff
Cochin bantam pullet; Rcinhard
poultry farm; Queen Alice weight,
3 ounces.
Large increase Of white birds this
year over previous shows; more red
birds in 1913.
Large exhibit of pigeons, including
white fan tails, red saddles, red ian
tails, jackabines; shown by H. N.
Hoaglin Of Hillsboro.
French Crevecoeurs; shown by Rein
hard poultry farm, Ottumwa.
Pair of Hamburgs; exhibited oy
Mrs. Louis Montague, Ottumwa.
Group of Blue OTpingtons; shown
by DR.. w. E. Creath of Ottumwa.
Some that won second place IN Chi
cago show recently.
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