Plentywood herald., 1928-12-27
NORTHERN MONTANA
POULTRY EXHIBITION

Chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese
will be featured at the Northern
Montana Poultry Show which will be
held at Malta on January 9, 10, II
and II, 1929. Poultry breeders from
Hill, Blaine, Phillips, Valley, Roose-
welt, Sheridan and Daniels counties
have been invited to enter exhibits
The premium list provides for five
hundred dollars in cash prizes besides
a large number of special prizes
which have been donated by various
commercial firms, poultry breeders
and others interested in the poultry
industry in northern Montana. j. D
Osmundson, licensed American Poul.
try Association judge of Richey, will
make the awards.
Prizes are offered for each stan.
dard breed Of chickens represented
at the show. One male and four fe,
males will constitute a pen. Cash
prizes are offered for both old anc
young pens. The male and one fe.
male from any pen may also be en-
tered in the individual classes. This
makes it possible for an exhibitor tt
win first on young pen, first OF
cockerel and first on pullet by enter
ing one cockerel and four pullets. L
an exhibitor wins first on the pen
first on male and first on female, hi
wins a total of $500 cash and alst
has a chance at winning the sweep
stakes.
Since turkeys have become yer.
important and profitable sideline OF
many Montana farms, some very at
tractive cash and special prizes have
been provided for the turkey depart
ment. Cash PRIZES of $500, $4.00
$500, $500 and $1.00 are offered fol
each of the following lots: old tom
young tom, old hen and young hen
Brink and Sons, Incorporated, com
mission merchants of Chicago, offel
$1,000 cash for the largest and bes
turkey display at the show. TIL,
Northern Creamery Company O
Great Falls offers one 8-gallon cream
can for the best young turkey hen
Peter Fox Sons Company, commits
sion merchants of Chicago, offers ;
special prize of $500 cash for th'
best young turkey tom.
The same cash prizes are Offered
for the best capons as are offered fol
turkeys since capons are rapidly com
ing to the front as holiday bird
This year the prices for dressed ca
pons have been running from 38c tt
44c at Chicago which certainly makes
capon production look very attractive
as a sideline.
j. 0. Ballard and Company of Ma
lone, New York, offer one pair of al
wool, laced bottom breeches for th
best pair of young geese exhibited
The Calumet Baking Powder Com
pany of Chicago offers: six lib. can
of Calumet baking powder for TIN
best pair of young ducks and six Lii
cans for the best pair of old ducks
The Pacific Poultryman, Seattle
Wash, offers: one year subscription
to the Pacific Poultryman for tn
best young pen of chickens, and
one year subscription for the bes
old hen. Skookum Chix Hatcheries
Helena, Mont, offers: fifty Utilit,
Beauty White Leghorn chix for tn
best pen of single comb White Leg
horns. F. A. Banderob, breeder 0
Silver Laced Wyandottes and Blac
Rhinelanders of Huntley, Montana
will give a $500 setting of Silve
Laced Wyandotte Matching eggs an
a $500 setting of Rose Comb Blac
Rhinelander Matching eggs for tn
best cockerel and pullet of eac
breed.
The Montana Cereal Company 0
Billings, Montana, offers: $500 cas-
for the sweepstakes cockerel; 81
packages of Cream of the West TO
each of the following: sweepstake
pullet, sweepstakes cock and sweep
stakes hen Albert Tinney, breede
of the Tinney Strain Barred Rocks
Malta, Montana, offers: $500 cas-
for the best cockerel and pullet @
the Tinney Strain Barred Rocks
$500 for the second best cockert
and pullet, Tinney Strain Barre
Rocks; $500 for the best young pc
of Tinney Strain Barred Rocks pre-
duced by any boy or girl under I'll
teen years of age.