Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-01
Poultry Show
By Frederic ! Hsskin

write poetry, appears at some time IN tic
life Of almost every human. NO doubt
one reason is that IL looks like AN easy
way 10 make money starting on snab
capital. And probably another reason
II that nearly everyone of ns has is~
poultry-raising ancestors hanging on hf
family tree somewhere, from whom he has
inherited at least slight tendency
toward chicken fancying.
II you want % remain immune W ths
ehicken-fancyinp fever, which you have
had and gotten over, do not 40 70 a bis
poultry show. II you do, the chances are
that before YOU have been there long you
will be silently computing the amount oi
space in your back yard and before you
have left you will have contracted Tor q
setting of Rhode Island Red, or Black
Minorea or Blue Andalusian c2gs ~ two
dollars apiece and guaranteed fertile.
You will have been convinced by govern
ment posters that IL is your duty ~ Ins
crease the nations food supply ny raislng
poultry IN your bark yard, and that
white Leghom coekerel ~ the most beau
tiful bird which does not Fly. You willbaye
been overburdened with poultry l0urD ais,
advice and samples ~ mysterious foods
guaranteed 20 stimulate the phlop TO-
| eeuitiye instinct of the most reluctant
| and puritanical hen.
For poultry show ls really Impressive
spectacle Here is half an acre or - pf
! eoops flIl of birds Of the most periec
/ form and feather They range IN size from
/ bantam no bigger than quail - buH
/ Orpington almost as heavy as turkey
/ They run an astonishing garnut of colors
/ black. white. red blue buf and gray
/ There are chickens barred, speckled,
/ spangled and striped There are chickens
+ with double combs and chicken' with
single combs, chickens with cresta hike
drum majors and chickens with 10 cr"Ef'
at all, chickens with feathered legs and
chickens with bare legs
ALI PRow oNE 4NcEsTo2
And YOU NJ ust reflect that al u This
hizerre aggregation ~ feathered wOr dcra
was evolved from q single type n bird
tho iltn gle cork a India Ihatis al nature
gave rnsn 70 start with
The rest ~ this variety n form SIZE
ard color j. his handiwork No other
creature ou earth has been 20 vario'islv
variegated except possibly the dog and
there we're very likely -eversl different
forms II dog - cross 10 the beginning
Here in a oorrpr n the poultry SHOW is ?
IgYd of almost Incredible color scheme
Sesrne Of bis feathers are red and Some y
them are white ard some a them sre =
grayi.h blue and these colors are scatfeTed
over him az though ne had MN RAPIDLY
through a shower ~ assorted pants Tie
arrests the eye You pause hefore mr. on
closure
What stranes-lookirg hird"' Won
lnvoluntarily exclsIrn
What Il v mean. Htrhr ge' demands
gray haired man who stards near ~
coop Won divine thst ~ the owner n
tho s4rarg ge bird
a9trar pelv beautiful you explain
hastily But how did he happen Nas ne At
accident
"Aocidsrt nothing This mere = IN
American patriot breed The nevegt thu
u domestic poultry, exhibited for ~
first time took me IN Years n pTodhc'
en-
Ard then vou realize that you are look
~ upoa rn mere freak ~ nature hu
unon + dream come true You realize ma
this man conceived the idea of bird z nc.
should epItonIze n his color schern'
100 per cent snericanIsul- the Fourth Q
Iuly. Old Glory and The Spirt Of Sevenf'
six What you are looking upon : m
! work of Al aYtIst IN elective breeding
i red white and blue rooster
: TEE PATRIOT BREED.
r. & +rIe that there are several reds o.
him and Ill II them are little rusty, ant
that the blue r decldedlv gravlshi ou
ztilj he has q recognizable resemblance Z
d piece Of bunting a poultry iorm. =
represents a design conceived IN the rlln'
~ man and carried out il the strange an
rcfractorv materials Of animal heredltv
seven different breeds and sixteen genera
treas of breeding went INTO hls rnakgnl
He i alrradv guaranteed 70 breed ?
rer cent true and that means that ~ ieas
10 rer cent of me feathers II any nir
hatched from an authentic patriot egs
vii show al three Of the coiOrs.
THIS ord and All the rest q these arlsJC
cratic fowls represent real ana difncn
triumph over the forces oI nature. 81
nature : against this tampeTlng with ~
forms. and she misses no opportunity
restore the original model. Turn al theS
PRISE winning birds loose IN a barnyar
together and let them breed PROMISE
0,lslv Tor few generations and they vi
revert 70 the primitive jungle +Epe 70
only In form but in color. The scrub chIci
ems that YOU see N some baruyarus whel
no good blood has been introduced z
ueratlous. are hardly dlstlnEulshab
from the ancestral Jungle bird. They eve
recover the power Of flight 70 conslderso'
degree, and the tendency 10 roOst n tree
Incidentally their value both As tab
birds and as egg producers suffers sadly
For this reason the Department.
Agriculture conducts at All % these Poult'
shows s steady propaganda FOR the rslsir
Of good chickens Il realizes that mar
7 country and suburban folks who Set
few chickens in the yard have Meth,
the time nor the inclination 20 20 n tc
a raising blooded stock But II points o'
thar a blooded rooster Introduced into q
y fock once s year viii do wonders for
He counteracts natures tendency
revert to the primitive form. He brings Y
the egg-laying and the weight. he mo
i than pays for himself
= Il IS perhaps 20 be regretted that Re
: except chicken fanciers 20 70 poult
: shows. Ii the general public could ne
= some way inveigled thereby bra
= band or a free dance, or anything else
= the result would probably be 70 increa
= the nations supply Of poultry BY mar
= hundred per cent. For every man 5 p
= tentially a husband rvmSn-a RAISER
- some kind Of live tock. Often this i
= pulse in him gets no more expression tn
= the somewhat futile one of keeping
= dog or 8 cat And If he lives in an apaI
= raent, OF in city where D > ultry-keepl