The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
BIG PRIZE WINNERS COMING
Officials of New Association Are AS.
sured That Show in Kenosha viii Be
Made One of Most Notable to Be
Held in Wisconsin This Winter.


Kenosha chickens-the web footed
kind-are going to be on dress parade
at the Coliseum during the week of
January goth as announcement was made
today that the Kenosha Poultry Show
had filed articles of incorporation at
Madison and the first annual show of
the new Association is to be held at
the Coliseum beginning on the date
named. The nWe association is headed
ky August Barth and already fourteen
of the leading chicken fanciers of the
city have been listed as stockholders in
the organization. No canvass has been
made for the sale of the stock of the
association and probably none will be
made until after the first annual show
is held. The show according to the
members of the new association is go
ing to be the most notable show Of the
year in Wisconsin. 1t is to be the
last of the Wisconsin shows and it is
expected that it will attract to Kenosha
prize birds from all Of the other shows.
1t is planned to use the entire Coliseum
for the show of the chickens and pet
stock and the show will be staged in
a more attractive manner than any
show of poultry ever held in Kenosha.
Winners of national honors are to be
featured at the show and already the
directors of the association have been
given assurance that many chickens
which have won national and interna-
tional honors will be on display at the
Kenosha show.
The prize list is going to be longer
than any prize list offered at any of the
Wisconsin shows this season. There
will be six splendid silver cups which
are to be offered for pen displays and
the cups are going to be given to win
ners who may display pens of five birds.
Most shows have demanded pens of at
least ten birds before competition for
the big cups was made possible In
addition to the silver cups there is 60
ing to be prizes to the value of more
than $3.50 which have been contributed
by the merchants and other business
men of Kenosha
The formal announcement of the
plans for the show will be made within
the next week or ten days and the Ke-
nosha boosters are going to attend many
shows in Wisconsin and Northern Till
nois and secure entries. There will be
no boundaries to limit the displays at
the show. George Hackett Of North
FREEDOM, probably the best judge of
poultry in the Middle West if not in the
country, has been engaged to judge
the chickens and they will be judged
with the score card method, every fowl
being given a rank. Handsome prizes
will be- awarded not only to the winning
coops but also to the pens taking second
and third place. 36
Tt is expected that no less than thou
sand chickens and ducks and many dis
plays of pet stock will be entered for
the Coliseum show.
For the past two years the poultry
show has been held in connection with
the annual Farmers Institute but the
men interested in the poultry have
chafed on account Of the fact that they
have been forced to use the basement
for show room. They declare that
the exhibit of poultry has been the big
gest drawing card of these annual ex-
hibits
Efforts are being made to have an
unusually large entry list this year in
order to secure aid from the state for
the show to be held in the winter of
1917-191s. It is expected that local
raisers of chickens, geese and turkeys
will be loyal to the home town and see
to it that the entry list is great enough
this year to insure the financial success
of future shows.