The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-08-09
ANNUAL PICNIC OF
POULTRY GROWERS
HELD LAST SUNDAY

Members of the Midland Empire
and Carbon County Poultry Growers
associations, their families and friends
to the number of about 300 held their
annual picnic at Petersons grove near
Joliet last Sunday. Every town in
this county was represented as well
as Laurel, Billings, Columbus and Abb
sarokee and with good roads and per-
feet weather the occasion was made
real gala-day.
At noon everyone partook of a pic
mic luncheon which was spread in the
pavilion and which was suggestive of
a harvest home festival, after which |
the time was spent in visiting, playing
games and listening to an address de-
livered by C. W. Conger, the Smith
Hughes man for Carbon county. Mr.. |
Conger told of the diseases that at
tack poultry, explained the best meth
DDS Of coping with each ailment and
commended the members present for
their efforts and their zeal in raising
the standard of the poultry raised in
this and surrounding counties. At the
close of his address he answered sew
eral questions put to him by the poul-
try growers touching methods of car
ing for and selection of the various
kinds Of poultry as well as other ques-
tons that have to do with that i'm
portant industry.
The Carbon County Poultry Grow
ers association has been in existance
but seven or eight years and has been
responsible in raising the standards
of the poultry raised in this county
to a degree that no fair or exhibit is
held in this section of the state with
out several blue ribbons being award
ed to the exhibits owned by its men,
bers. Last year this county more than
held its own among the counties ex-
hibiting at both the Midland Empire
and the State fairs. J. T. Carroll of
Roberts is president of the Carbon
County association and John Sim of
this city is its secretary. Mr.. Sim
has been honored by being selected as
the superintendent of poultry at the
Midland Empire fair during the past
several years, a position he has ac-
copied again for this year, which is
striking evidence of his recognized
ability in that line and is evidence too
that his work has been satisfactory
not only to exhibitors but to the off
GERS of the Midland Empire fair as
we'll.
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Each winter during the past five
years the Carbon county association
has held poultry show in this city
at which time hundreds of birds from
this and surrounding counties have
been placed on exhibition. A recog-
nized poultry expert has been brought
here to act as judge and prizes have
been awarded that have made the af-
fairs interesting and lectures delivered
and demonstrations made that have
rendered them instructive and Of value
to anyone engaged in the poultry bust
ness.
In an interview with Messrs. Carroll
and Sim Sunday they state that such
show will be held in this city again
the coming winter, but that the dates
when it will take place have not been
definitely determined. They both
stated, however, that the show to be
held this winter will be the best Of
its kind ever seen here and that it
will be of real interest not only to
poultry growers but to the people of
the county and city also, whether en-
gagged in the poultry business or not.
Those from this county who visit
the Midland Empire fair this year
will see many Carbon county birds on
exhibition and they may confidently
expect that exhibits from this county
will take high place when the prizes
are awarded That will be as it should
be. The Carbon County Poultry
!, Growers association has sought to
arouse interest in that industry and
has done so to the extent that not only
the standard of poultry owned by its
members, but the standard raised by
others has been improved to a marked
degree by the interest it has aroused
and the activities it has put forth to
/ that end