Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-03

With the fair finally settled in
regular quarters where all buildings
and improvements will be permanent,
the county has found something
definite to work on. The exhibitors
have learned by experience that GER
tS,n types, breeds and conditions of
poultry and live stock will take prizes
and that having stock that has taken
prizes is worth while.
The ranchers and farmers of the
county are now anxious to exhibit
their best stock, where few years
ago they had to be begged to do
so. Not only because of the prizes
they have taken in the past two
years, but because the stock is better
housed at the fair and better cared
for than it used to be. are the owners
VIKING to present to the public fol
three days the finest things they
have been able to produce.
Many residents of this county and
even of the Douglas district have
failed in former years to attend the
fair. They all know that they missed
something educational and intensely
interesting and it is especially urged
this year that no one miss the fair
for a person cannot have any true
conception of the country in which
lie lives until he has seen the things
that country produces, and the fair
is the place to see them.
Probably the live stock and poultry
departments will show the greatest
Improvement this year. A year ago
no cattle except a few pens of beef
&c
there will probably be a good showing
of beef types, dairy types and general
purpose types, with the addition to
the stock show of hogs, goats and
sheep. In other words the live stock
exhibit will probably be or 100
per cent larger than it has ever been
before.
stock shown this year will not be
much better than that shown last
year, for there are no flaws IN thu
registered beef cattle of Cochise coun-
ty. The fine thing this year Will
he that the dairy. interests will be
represented and in a few years cairy'
ing will be one of the big businesses
of this county and is of vast interest,
Everyone drinks milk or uses 1t in
some way and the entire fairgoing
public will be interested in seeing the
ideal milk producer as she stands
and chews her cud.
Poultry Exhibits
In the poultry section one thinks
of chickens. Looking back we can
remember when the poultry exhibit
was housed in little snack rhat
looked like big and very badly
constructed hen house. This year the
poultry will be ranged along four
sides and down middle table of ono
of the largest buildings on the fair
grounds and chickens will be only one
small part of the exhibit.
There will be ducks, turkeys
pigeons, gu.neas, pea fowl, geese
bantams, turkens, capons and poss~3ly
swans and ostrich. The regular
breeds in each kind of fowl viii be
represented by a few of the world
very finest birds. Poultry experts
agree that the chickens raised in this
county are, generally speaking, a
standard of their respective breeds.
There will be the novelties, such
as frizzed chickens, red gummed ducks
and midgets in the bantam world
The turken and capon are sim
novelty to many persons. LAST yeal
a very few capons were exhibited
This year there will be more. TheS
represent the dish for a king IN
reality. In olden times only a grea'
monarch might eat capon, but within
the next few years anyone with
moderate means my eat it IN this
county
To those not UP on poultry lore
let it be explained that a capon Is
an unsexed male chicken. Az opera
ton is performed on the chicken
when he is but few weeks of age
and he Immediately begins to grow
and produce fine white meas until
he attains a size twice that of his
parents. The capon will be seen ~
The fair this year in all his glory