, 1927-11-02

The Better Poultry Special, consisting of ten cars,
onstration of every phase of the poultry growing in
dustry, will arrive in Cody early Tuesday morning, and
will be here until noon on that day, at which time the
train will be moved to Powell, for a meeting there in
the afternoon.
The Better Poultry" meeting will commence at
with a program at the Cody Theatre. Several speakers
each a specialist in poultry work, will appear on the
to the station, where the demonstrations win be held
In the special sa cars: This will be an exhibit well worth
business will be most profitable.
There will be six airs of exhibits IN the Poultry Special.
d = mrt .,ia deals ais. with the story of a successful form poultry
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that that good 2 he "a are egg machines, - A good type hen is shown
year. The next t exhibit is designed s ed s to Show W t RlHfd feeds 'n ma Il
a mash for o. laying pyiHps hens. = A small feed e grinder ~iere is 81 shown r1s'u WITH
a me ssnaes Of Of s mtssns for feea sepa at, m the feeds d, and fasd' shows $. proper T1~sr
trated by exhibits of homemade. sanitary feeding equipment.
practices I IS e ssasha a TRs s ssIas Of Of e 'as stins and al '% Fasstiss
one raised . n clean ground and one raised under unsanitary
s Peal' difference aeei in s sPo~th. are METHODS sas sane ef eliminating afs sas 'h snd i eon "a
m eaas for nef sat %ates f BIRDS parasites ao prevent mt t alsa i Mn 5s on display lasias.
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po edatsa se look o q a fe u in men enl ina a s09 sap asa; as0w eanibi the sh pgaae1pa 4
, five sspG N. and ,a, : pen s, e s9cfeTs I AZ proper age for eaRonising
over 70 an exhibit. Of standard-bred poultry, showing live birds
s ~slen Fs ssss s y pq qlasiIat ,s5o practice the improved methods
The third car is a fiat car on which two fullsized standard
poultry houses have been constructed. One of these is a laying
house containing a standardized flock. and the other is a
brooder house, showing a brooder stove in operation with $50
baby chicks. The people will be permitted to pass through the
center of these houses and see them in actual operation.
The fourth car deals entirely with the production of tur-
Keys. The first exhibition emphasizes the Importance of selec-
tin of a. early maturing type. This point is Illustrated by a n
early. maturing type of bird contrasted with a rangy, late ma
turing type. A pen of arufcially Matched and brooded turkeys
is shown next, contrasted with a pen of turkeys of the same
age Matched and brooded by hen, and brings out the important
fact that artificial Matching and brooding are superior to ma
tural methods. The value of feeding animal protein is we'll
illustrated BY two birds of the same age, one of which received
animal protein in the ration and the other fed on ordinary
ration without animal protein. The value Of sanitation and
regular wormfng are emphasized in a exhibit showing turkeys
raised under sanitary conditions as compared to ones raised
car shows a maybe attacking a nest of turkey eggs and a
coyote preying upon turkeys and calls attention to the impor-
lance of controlling these pests.
The fifth car is a. Live Poultry Transit car. illustrating
methods of shipping live poultry to terminal markets. The
sixth "a contain exhibits dealing exclusively with standardiza-
ton INC marketing of poultry products. Exhibits showing
standard grades of eggs and market requirements will be shown.
Proper and improper methods of packing eggs In cases and
loading in cars will be illustrated with model refrigerator cars.
The first case will show market grades and classification of
eggs; the second case will contain market grades of dressed
poultry. such as fancy heavy fowl. light fowl. capons. and culs;
the third ase will show market grades of dressed turkeys and
viii illustrate losses due to crooked breast bones.