The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-01-26
WILL PERPETUATE
POULTRY SHOW
PLANS UNDER WAY TO MAKE 1T
AN ANNUAL EVENT IN CONNEC-
TION WITH FARMERS WEEK
Farmers Urged to Take Up Poultry
Practical Information to be
Given Tomorrow
By r. B. BAILEY
Editor and published of Western POul-
try, Lewiston

In point of numbers the show is not
SO large as l had expected, but ow-
ing to the unprecedented cold wealth
er it is a wonder that breeders were
willing to send any of their best birds
to the Idaho show now in progress
here, and take chance on
freezing and contracting diseases.
Over in Montana, where the state
show usually attracts from 1000 to
1900 fowls, the cold weather cut down
the entries to less than 500. Figuring
along this line, and comparing the
entries at the state show with the
one held in Idaho last season, the
showing is remarkably good.
The local association did well to
elect Prem Moore as its manager. He
has donated his work well and by the
able MANNER in which he has cooped
and staged the show he has reflected
credit on not only the university and
Moscow, but on the whole state as
well. The secretary, VIM. Staples, has
also been a factor in the upbuilding
of the local association. No matter
how we'll preparations are made to
handle a show, if a real live secretary
is not at the helm to inspire confidence
in prospective exhibitors, the whole
proposition falls through. P. B. Car
ter as superintendent of the show is
also rendering valuable assistance.
The big armory building in which
the show is housed is an ideal building
for a poultry show There is plenty
of room and the lighting is such as to
make the work Of placing the awards
a very simple matter for the judge.
Judge Oscar Nelson of Occur d'Alene,
a man with a national reputation, is
: placing the awards and Idaho is to
be complimented on developing such
an exceptionally strong poultry judge,
The Rhode Island Red class is per-
haps the largest and most classy IN
the show. A single comb cockerel OF
this variety exhibited by the Wash
ington State college is to my mind the
best male bird in the show. w. X
Whitraker, who is connected with the
poultry department at Pullman, is
responsible for this bird, and 1T shows
painstaking care and effort to produce
such a magnificent fowl.
There is pen of fowls which were
raised insOhio and shipped to WASH
ington man which cost $780, This pen
Sc on exhibition and while the BIRDS
are very good, yet l see frequently
chickens in every way their equal.
The bic International show at San
Francisco this past fall showed clear
ly that western breeders are coming
into their own.
There is a White Leghorn pullet OF
exhibition which Judge Nelson says
is one of the finest specimens he has
handled this year. The White Wyan-
dottes are large class and they are
of great merit Towns from a very
wide radius are represented at the
show and in the coops are to be seen
several fowls which took firsts at the
big Panama Pacific exposition snow.
The individual exhibits are above the
average and should be seen to be ap-
preciated.
In talking with members of the ag- ]
ricultura1 faculty l am led to believe
efforts will be made to perpetuate
the show as an annual event in con-
nection with the short course. They
appear to recognize it's Importance and
believe that it will do much good to /
stimulate interest in the poultry bus /
mess, which is more and more coming j
to be reconized as one of the most {
important economic problems in the {
state.
The different lectures tomorrow on =
features of the poultry business in
Idaho should and probably will at
tract a large number of interested
people While great deal of poultry l
is raised in the city back lots it is
the IdTUQoT WHO lS buC OaShDOAO " SAAS
industry and if he can be interested
we have gone long way towards
solving tht problem of raising in Ida
no at least the major portion of the
eggs and fowls necessary for home
At the present time
the amount raised is almost negligi- |
bic. It will certainly pay every one t