Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-16
DO YOU, SIR, RAISE
CHICKENS? If YOU
DO, STOP AND DLTSTEN
Question Addressed to Every
Visitor of Poultry Show,
Whether He Don a Prince
Albert or Not
1000 BIRDS ON EXHIBITION

Wear the most stylish clothes made by
the most fashionable Walnut street tailor
and the chances are that you will ho
taken for a farmer just the same at the
poultry show in tho Metropolitan Build
ing
DO YOU raise chickens, my friend ?"
YOU will hear addressed to YOU many
times. no matter how metropolitan your
Earb may be, The phrase is almost as
persistent sound az the cackle Of the
mems and the crow Of tho ROSTERS
No longer can they distinguish tho
farmer from tho man described iu tho
comics as "CitiCuss' by his clothes This
Is the day of new farmer, when tn"
man who tills the soil. raises chickens
and breeds cattle no longer wears a wisp
OF straw IN his hair. a. chin beard on n
inustacheless face, and wide Tapping
hat that formed the frame for the pic
turc the cartoonist or yesterday used to
draw.
Every time there is u poultry show or
an exhibit Of farm products or lecture
on agricultural products. II becomes more
aud more noticeable that the old farmer
with the baggy trousers. carpet bag and
cotton umbrella. is rapidly passing away
The new farmer is the college graduate
the scientist, the capitalist For the most
part he Is sleek and we'll groomed lie is
man Of culture, applying knowledge
Is directing the operation of large in
vestment Of money, just as the banker or
business man does. For farming these
days requires capital to pay for modern
machinery aud the automobiles. which
are fast supplautiuG horses aud mules on
the np-to -date agricultural enterprise
II YOU are the bcst-drcsscd man. there
fore. in metropolitan society, YOU may
hear the question: "Do YOU raise chick
fripnd slIYpggcl gtr frrIt aG
YOU.
Scores of men arc asking this question.
II seems as If some slogan were being
passed among the visitors to the show.
You can't escape it.
The words are the prelude TO speech.
if YOU answer in the affirmative you will
be uttering an open sesame" to an en-
thusastlC description OF something that is
for sale and which. IL you buy it. will
enable you to double the product Of your
poultry farm or perhaps treble It.. or even
well, no. they really go no higher than
that.
Chickens are by no means the only at
traction at the show. There are any num-
her Of exhibits displaying any number of
things. Every ten steps YOU bump into
a representative of some farm journal or
poultry paper who offers YOU COPY free
and asks YOU to become a subscriber to
his valuable paper. The latest and most
approved mechanical apparatus for the
raising of Chic'.ens are on view sent G.
O. D., subject to approval \ dozen
varieties OF chicken houses are displayed,
quite attractively built and seeming good
enough for humans and positively palatiaI
for chicken
American fowldom Is represented at
the show by perhaps 1000 specimens, all
polished and powdered to look their yery
best The judges started work yesterday
to make their awards but did not
achieve as much progress as had been
hoped for because some OF the birls en-
tered did not arrive on time, having been
held up by the storm.
Lady Byzantine, champion eGg-laying
hen Of the world with record of 3i4
eggs in year. is, of course. the star
attraction at the show. But there Is an
other champion egg layer which has more
eggs to her credit than Lady Byzantine
She is Victoria" u white Indian runner
duck. She has q record OF S5s eggs in
one year, a record completed October
of last year.
THE AWARDS,
s o oB2ynS By6uh "fTaf os were c%oys
F1rN brd wosd Crest Nsas e. RGHy
White Pivmouth Rock .Hen-First. Pine Grove
Rra cast SPm S2Hfe Hin wSW nroo po2I MG23
White Plymouth Rock COCkerel-FiTSt. BlCk.
more Poultry Farm second, Pine Grove Pou.
try Farm third. George n. L. Petite.
White Plymouth Rock Pullet-First and Attn
George II. l.. Petite: second, BictmOre; third
Abbeylex Poultry FARM fourth, MInch
Brothers. ~
Barred Plymouth Pon-First. Meadow Brook
Poultry Farm: second. c. Guy Myers, third.
Rldgewood Poultry Farm.
Pen Mated 10 Produce Exhibition Males
First George L. Muth second, Warren Lack
man: third. George u Mmth.
Penn Mated to Produce Exhibition Females
First and second. Robert j. Walden, third.
G. ~. Myers.
White Plymouth Rock Pen-Eirst. George
II. l.. Petite; second. Meadow Brook Poultry
Farm: third Willow Brook Poultry Farm.
White Wyandotte Pcn-First, Allen 9. Rob
erts: second Harry FTeas. third, ;. Y Warner.
Columbian Wyandottc Pen-First d. ".
sinsle-comb Rhode Island Red Pen-First,