The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-31
REVISE PREMIUM
LIST FOR FAIR
MANY IMPORTANT CHANGES CON-
TEMPLATED BY ADVISORY
BOARD MEMBERS.
WILL STRENGTHEN EXHIBITS
Record-Breaking Swine and Sheep
Displays Are Predicted-More
Than Thirty-Five Counties
Are to Compete.

Than Thirty-Five Counties
Are to Compete.
Madison.-The premium list for the
1916 state fair is being prepared by the
Wisconsin department of agriculture.
The revision is more thorough and is
being made by a committee of five
members of the advisory board and Of
ficials of the state fair division of the
department.
A number of changes are being
made in classiflcations in order that
all classes may be brought up to
date and the possible competition pro-
vided in each department.
Special efforts are being made to
strengthen the boys and girls exhibit
and contest department. This depart
ment was created this year and is
the beginning of one of the strongest
divisions of the fair. The amount OF
money to be awarded in this depart
ment will be larger than in 1915, and
several competitions will be added.
1t has been decided to drop the
blacksmiths contest and the boys
aviation department. Money given
in these departments will be added to
the boys and girls department.
An effort will be made at all times
to strengthen all departments having
to do with agriculture.
A worlds record was established by
the dairy department in 1915, and the
prospects are that the 1915 record will
be exceeded in 1916.
New swine and sheep barns, and
the fact that the fair will be open
to worldwide competition, insures rec
breaking swine and sheep exhibit
in 1916. In the cattle and horse de-
partments prospects for record-break-
ing showings are excellent.
Poultry Industry Growing.
Here are some of the facts and fig
ures which could be used to prove
that despite all notions to the con
trary, poultry raising is another OF
Wisconslns many important farm i'll
dustries.
Fifteen million dollars is the esti
mated annual valuation of Wisconsin s
poultry and poultry products.
Fifty million dozens of eggs mar
keted by Wisconsin's poultrymen a
year.
One hundred fifty thousand Wiscon
sin farmers raise poultry.
Three hundred young men and
women are studying poultry hus
bandry at the college of agriculture
the University of Wisconsin.
Sixty poultry shows are held in
Wisconsin every year.
There is scarcely township in the
state which has not a pOultryman to
it's credit. More and more farmers
are beginning to specialize in their
industries. And many seeing the
ideal conditions which Wisconsin Of
fers for poultry raising, are investing
in poultry as a means of earning a
good livelihood. They are working
with their heads as we'll as with their
hands, and the result is a class OF
poultrymen who know their business
and clear their profits.
Besides these professional poultry
men, there are the farmers who keep
poultry as a side issue-for pocket
money, perhaps. By far the greater
number of f1ocks are owned by this
class. These farmers are waking UP
as we'll as the poultrymen. They are
learning how tc feed and how to house
their birds. Some of them are even
improving their stock by selection and
the purchase of purebred fowls.
Everywhere farmers are caring for,
and increasing their fiocks. They are
beginning to see that their once de.
spised flocks have been laying golden
eggs, and have come to the conclusion
that whatever is worth doing at all. is
worth doing well.
Then there are the city poultrymen
the men who keep little flock
penned up in the back yard. Starting
as a thrifty movement to reduce the
cost of living, the backyard poultry
industry is rapidly coming up over
the horizon as profit-sharing bust
ness. Improved methods of feeding
and housing have put the little city
flock on a par with it's country neigh.
bors, and more and more city men
are going in for poultry as a profitable
hobby.
And back of all, this back-to-the-
flock movement is the poultry depart
ment of the agricultural college of the
University of Wisconsin. Although
but recently established, the depart
ment is doing much to advance and
develop the industry which too often
has been considered of but minor i'm
pOrtance.
New interpretations.
The following interpretations filed
notice of increase in capital stock:
West Water-Sycamore company, Mil
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