The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-07-30
POULTRY DEPT.
Of FAIR WILL
Be SHOW PLACE
MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR
:. FINE EXHIBIT
H. L. Kelly, Leading Chicken Fan.
cier' Writes Interesting Article
on the Subject

are striving to outdo each other.
and every other county in the State,
and every other State in the Union
in the production of fruits, yege-
tables and the staple products: thew
must not forget that the cost of
high living has made 1t much more
a matter of economy and profit for
them to pay special attention to the
raising of poultry than it ever has
before.
The farmer can raise poultry of
any and all kinds cheaper than any,
one else. First, because he has the
open range for them to run on. Sec
ond, because he can raise at home
nearly everything necessary for their
maintenance.
The farmer should be just as par
ticular about the quality and variety
OF fowls he starts his flock with as
he is about the variety and quality
|of seeds he plants or trees or plants
he sets out. lie will get more sat
isfactory results for his efforts and
expenditures if he does than he pos
sibly can from the mongrel breeds.
Now, to the point. Some farmers
have one variety OF fowls, some have
another. am raising poultry for
the very best results possible and am
always open to conviction if your
poultry is better tnan mine. Meet
me at the Polk County Fair in Lake
land the last week of next February.
There will be some class to that ex-
hibition of chickens, turkeys, ducks,
geese, guineas, pigeons, pea-fowls
and pets; there will also be the larg-
est and most complete exhibit of ev-
Ierything grown on or near farm
that has ever been exhibited in South
Florida.
Be sure to have the best of every
thing you grow, produce or manu-
facture on your place there; or you
will be sure to regret 1t afterwards.
There will be at that fair a COM
petent and registered Judge to Judge
the poultry, according to the rules
land regulations of the American
Poultry Association.
If he decides your chicken Is bet
tier than mine, | want some of your
kind of chickens and am willing to
pay a fancy price for enough of them
to get a start with. So, you see
there is one benefit to be derived
from the county fair.
If your best birds are not quite
. so good as somebody's else, you have
the opportunity right there at the
;, fair to see what is necessary for you
to make your flock perfection and
! that is another benefit to be derived
from the county fair which YOU, as
poultry raiser cannot afford tc
q lose.
Inasmuch as there will be a small
entry fee charged for each and every
single bird or breeding pen entered
Ito help defray the eXpenses) WI
D have decided to 90 beyond the con
fines of our own county with thi'
n department and cordially invite en-
q tries in the poultry department from
@ any and every part of the State o
+ Florida.
# We are egotistic enough to believ
II that if there are any better birds be
q ing raised anywhere else than L
+ Polk county that we can convinc
r the raisers of them after they Sc
4 our fair county and its many advan
Ig ttages that they can raise poultry a
C. cheap or cheaper here than elst
es where and also that we have tn
most advantageous market to /
found anywhere.
Everybody knows that the prt
gressive citizens of Polk county al
r. not satisfied with any but the be-
of and also that they believe in pa
at ronizing home industries. So Nj
he outsider, If your birds are superb
e- to ours here in Polk county, pro-
ng 1t at the county fair next Februal
n and you will be sure to make son
ed sales.
lis The executive committee IS wor
he ing as fast as circumstances will pc
re nit on the details of the approac
ed ing fair and will get the premiu
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