The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-23
State Superintendent Urges All Districts
to Join in Conserving The Meat
Supply OfNatiOn
POULTRY RAISING TO
HELP SOLVE PROBLEM
Egg Displays in All Schools Except Lities
Of First Class; Advise Raise
Chickens in Town

County Superintendent Moman
Shepard has just received letter
from State superintendent Wilson
relative to increasing the production
of food aud especially poultry in this
state The letter follows:
at is our duty at the present time
to do everything we can to increase
the production of foods. have al
ways been strongly in favor of the
school children taking active part i'll
everything that will increase the
food supply 1t is now time to take
up the poultry question as provided
by the last legislature
"The United States department of
agriculture has recently said:
zone hundred hens on every farm,
and one hundred eggs from every
hen, means more poultry and eggs
for consumption on the farms. more
to sell more to substitute for red
meat, and more power to our arms
and the allies"
And has also said:
''The keeping Of a small flock Of
laying hens on a town or village
lot or in a city backyard is an i'm
portant branch of poultry keeping"
tI have previously called to your
attention the statement of Mr. Hoo
yer, United States Food Comptroller,
i'll which he says:
:" We are short of red meat. Our
soldiers and our allies require more
than ever before. We are advOcat-
ing in every household, every hotel
and restaurant, the substitution of
poultry for red meat Increased pro-
duction of poultry can be effected
much faster than beef pork and NUT
ton. While we want increase in all
the latter, we must have quick
response in poultry products.
These statements make it espe-
cially important that the egg shows
be held as provided by the Jackson
poultry bill, H. B. No GAP, of the last
legislature. This bill provides for
the holding of a school house egg
show during the week commencing
with the last Monday of January
at each school house in the state
outside OF cities of the first class and
provides a minimum of SIS and a
maximum of $40 for premiums to be
paid to the school children exhibit
ing at each and every one of these
shows. The law also makes it the
special duty of every county super
intendent of public instruction and
every school teacher to aid in the
holding of these shows.
"The judge at each of these shows
should properly come from the ranks
of the members of the Boys and
Girls poultry clubs in each respec-
tive county and l want to urge
upon you that you do all you can,
consistent with your other duties,
to aid in the holding of these egg
shows and that you especially see
to it that some of the more intelli-
gent members of the Boys and Girls
poultry clubs within each respective
county be assigned to the duty of
judging the eggs exhibited at each Of
these differentlSh owsl boWhen there
are no poultry club members in any
county, the teachers in each county
can AMI doubtless will do this judg-
ing.
"In judging eggs at these school
house shows it will be sufficient to
consider six points, giving each
point equal weight, to-wit: First
weight per dozen eggs; second
freshness; third-cleanliness fourth
uniformity of color; fifth-uniform-
ity of shape; sixth-uniformity of
size. All eggs should be shown in