Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-23
FOR
STANDARDIzINC
Acme Mills Company VIII
Distribute 50 Settings
Of Eggs.
WYANDOTTE ENTHUSIASM
About 1000 Eggs Have Been
Distributed in Christian
County.
wYANDOTTE ENTHUSIASM

The Christian County Poultry Inn
provement Association announces an
other plan which has been worked
out in the scheme to standardize the
poultry interests Of the county by a
free distribution of fifty settings Of
White Wyandotte eggs in various
parts of the county. This has been
made possible through the generosity
of the Acme Mills, of Hopkinsville,
Incorporating with the United States
Department of Agriculture through
the County Agricultural Agent Not
only viii these eggs be given away
but each one who receives a setting
o. eggs viii be given instructions and
aiv.ce by the County Agent, TO whom
reports Of the progress being made
VIII be sent each month.
The eggs are to be given to men or
women who are living on farms in
Christian county, so any woman or
man in the county is entitled to apply
for a setting.
If all the plans that are now work
ing in the county to standardize the
poultry interests with the White Wy
andotte are only partially successful
Christian county is destined to be-
come the greatest White Wyandotte
center in the country, and the collec-
ton of White WyandOttes TO be shown
at the Pennyroyal Fair will be the
largest number of any one breed of
fowls ever gotten together here.
Already there has been distributed
in Christian county by the Improve
ment Association ard through the
Boys and Girls Poultry Clubs about
two thousand eggs.
The plan for the distribution of the
so settings of eggs by the Acme Mills
cooperating with the Department of
Agriculture is simple one and can
be carried out easily.
! Make application, by letter, for
setting of White Wyandotte eggs to
the Poultry Department, Acme Mills,
Hopkinsville, KY, stating what breed
you now have and how many birds
you keep. Give date upon which you
can use the eggs.
All applications will be numbered
and filed in the order in which re-
ceived, and as the number of settings
| is necessarily limited and wide dis
tribution over the county is desired,
a committee representing the inter-
ests cooperating will select the sue
cessful applicants with reference to-
order in which received and the To-
cation of the applicant. Notices will
. be mailed to the successful ones and
they viii be required to call at the
Office of the Acme Mills in person, re-
ceive the eggs and instructions and
S IN an agreement to set the eggs,
raise the chicks, report to the County
Agricultural Agent on blanks fur
nished and deliver all birds raised to
the Poultry Department OF the Penny
royal Fair On August 2oth, 1916, to
be inspected by a committee of ex-
pert poultry breeders. The commit
tee will select from each lot a pen of
five birds to be entered by the own
er in the competition for numerous
prizes which will be offered, and one
female from each lot to be retained by
the Poultry Department of Acme
Mills and the Department of Agricul-
ture, cooperating, for further dis
tribution.
No entry fee will be required and
the birds will all be cared for and
fed by the Acme Mills.
The eggs to be distributed will be
bought from several high class STAN
dard bred fiocks and records kept by
the County Agricultural Agent of the
strain of each setting and an oppor-
tunity will be had at the Fair for ex-
changing male birds in order that
those who desire can exchange for a
male bird unrelated to the pullets. In
this exchange the assistance of an ex-
pert committee will be given.
That the selection of the White
Wyandotte as the standard fowl for
Christian county was a wise one is
shown by a report from the recent
Boston show where there were many
extensive exhibits of dressed poultry.
Dealers and buyers of that city
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