The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-08-07
TELLS WHY STATE
FAIR Is BETTER
Harry Collier Says Everybody is
Prosperous and Wants to go
Somewhere
By Harry H. Collier

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ina, September Is to 20 promises
to be the best exhibition ever held in
the Northwest That statement is
often seen in connection with write
UPS of fairs, but things are different
this year. There is not a section of
Washington but what is prosperous.
There is not an industry but what is
making money. There is not pro-
duct but what is in big demand. Added
to the above there is not man, wo-
man or child but what has money,
provided that person has taken adj
vantage of conditions and worked.
This condition has tendency to make
people restless. More people are trav-
cling today than ever travelled before.
There are more automobiles owned in
Washington than any other state of
the same population. Washington
has better roads than any state in
the Union. 1t is easier to make trip
from the Puget Sount country today
in automobiles than it is by railroads.
People can jump into their machines,
pile in their baggage and are off in
few minutes. Distance has no ter
rors for the people and more people
are seeing the state than ever saw it
before. With this condition, large
crowds are assured for the big state
fair to start with.
Prosperity has brought another
thing. There are more people produc-
ing good stock than ever before. The
high cost of feed caused most of the
scrub cattle to be killed off and only
good calves were carried over. The
big demand for milk and butter has
been equal to the raise in the price of
feed. The average worker now eats
twice as much butter and consumes
twice as much milk as they did be-
fore the war, despite of the high price
for those products.
The poultry industry is booming as
it never did before. Poultrymen are
paying an average of $75 per ton for
their feed, but on the other hand they
average so cents per dozen for their
eggs. The man with the 12O-egg hen
considered s1.00 per hen profit from
his hens very good before the war,
but the man who has a yard full Of
ten dozen-egg hens today has made
ss...OC on every hen he has kept.
The big commercial poultryman is
making better than 10 dozen eggs per
hen. D. Tancred, who had hen 10.
make 311 eggs in twelve months at
the big Pullman egg-laying contest
that closed in October 1918, averaged
over twelve dozen eggs from flock
Of seven thousand hens in 1918. The
commercial man has found that he
can, by good care and extra good feed,
make his hens lay IL dozen eggs very
easily if he will get good laying stock
to begin with. This is going to make
big poultry exhibits at the shows. The
poultryman who has kept good fowls
in his backyard for pleasure as well
as eggs and meat for his family, had
more business this spring than he ever
had before. My wife has built a $500
addition on our house with the profit
off of IL turkey hens and 30 Buff Rock
chickens. She sent back more money
that was sent her for eggs than she
kept for eggs she shipped out. This
same report has come from every poul-
tryman-they will all be at the big
fair.
The United States government must
enlist $4,000 soldiers for the new
American army. They are finding it
hard to get the men. Today the army,
navy and agricultural departments
have joined together and they will
have on exhibition at the state fairs
the largest and best exhibit ever GO
en- Together. This exhibit is put out to
interest young men in the army and
navy life. The army will have on ex-
hibition all Of the new things in army
machinery. The navy will exhibit all
kinds Of war machines that can be
transported to an inland city. The
agricultural exhibit will show what
Uncle Sam is doing for the farmer and
the farm housewife. All of the latest
:abor-caving machines will be shown
that will help to make the life OF the
farmers wife easier.
This big exhibit will draw people
from everywhere. The army will also
exhibit many trophies taken by our
soldiers in France. This will bring
out lot Of people.