Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-01-29
Public Opinion
Better Chickens Needed.


Vega. Texas. Jan. 90. 1921.
Editor Amarillo Daily News.
Amarillo. Texas.
Dear Sir
In your Jan 9jth issue II the News
the following editorial appeared. Let's
not forget that Amarillo should nave
the greaest Poultry Show ever offer.
ID In the Texas Plains country towards
the ,lusr Ut the present year. etc" Why
not gn this one better and say. ANA.
riilu viii hold one OF the hest Poultry
Shows ever offered IN the SOUTH She
has done this very thing In the past
hut am sorry to say that for the last
four years she has been very dead In
this connection. What has been the
| results of Amarillo losing her interest
In the welfare Of better poultry? II
has not only caused goodly number
~ n-r own people to give up the fin"
flocks OF thoroughbred poultry which
they once had hut u has served as a
stumbling block 10 prevent others from
going into the Poultry business
KIND editor. suppose that some nice
day you drive out into the country
around your home town and look ovcr
the farm flocks Of poultry. | feel safe
In saying that YOU would not find one
flock In twenty Ca be anything but
bunch Of scrubs or mOngrcis. now after
81 n nave made this trip drive over to
some Of your neighboring towns such
as rlinyicw Lubbock. Dalhart or Vega
aua ,s,r ,rtu fivl half ~ fh. torn,
flocks Ia be- strictly high class standard
bred birds ana In most II the rcmainln.:
half you viii find good standardized
males which the farmers are useing t.
improve their flocks Some one might
say whats the difference In scrub
chickens and standard bred birds" and
that Is Just what | am getting at. In
your own city II Amarillo during the
past winter eggs were very scarce. and
at times mos, impossible to obtain and
II II had not hen Tor your ncighboring
towns who supplied you with par,
Of their output of those things common.
~ known ~ hen fruit sou and your
| ncighburs would have gone egg hungry
and many Of your sick would have diel.
am not writing this as n personal
advertisement tas | have not even men.
toned the breed uf chickens ! rnis"l
but Tor the good of the cause, and for
my interest In Amarillo. Amarillo -
wide awake along other lines and |
sincerely hope she viii awake from her
slumh'r of four years 90 the poultry
possibilities Of her section. with such
poultry boosters ms W W. Mcdonald
Mrs sam Seny. MCFcarson and others
. II your city with the aid Of your worthy
county agent. Harmon Benton. Anna.
rillo should hold one ~ the hest poultry
shows In the South. II Amarillo will
back the above mentioned parties IN
their efforts To have n show. ! viii b.
kin right now 60 condition my birds for
Amarillo this winter, that's all these
parties need 10 make II 20. lust a NJ.
tie backing"
The West Texas state SHOW which
has been held NJ Plninyicw the past
three years decauso there has been ~
other hidsl has done more To- Improve
poultry conditions around that civ
than ~ ether things combined. and IN"
advertising plainview has received
from this show could not be estimate !.
Lets begin now "a make preparation
Tor the best Poultry Show In the South
a. be- held In Amarillo. Texas. during
the winter q 1921.
Yours for more and better poultry.
". A. WILLIAMS.
Vega. TEXAS