The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-11
POULTRY SHOW GOES
OVER TOP WITH 700
BIRDS IN EXHIBITS
Entry Day Starts Off With All
Earmarks of Opening as
Finals Arrive
ENTRIES REACH TOTAL OF rs,
Weisner Starts Judging; Tur-
keys Form Almost Half
Section Of Big Array

q raucous chorus OF chicken treble
and cultural basso from the gobbline
choir Of turkeys, A. r. Miese1. secre-
tary. turned the key In the entrance
door at o'clock this morning. and
the Missouri Slope Poultry Association
show was under way.
It was only entry day, however,
and the show supposed not to be
fully set up. However. the Interna-
tional Harvester store rooms were
jammed with coops filled for the
most part with poultry Of all varieties.
With some shipments possibly de-
layed In arrival, there were Is entries
listed up to noon. Compared to Sc
entries last year, this gave the show
q fine swinging start.
Weisner Begins Judging
O. ]. Weisner. from the Agricultural
college, began judging at once, while
Secretary Miesen and his assistants
still were cooping birds from crates
which had arrived over night.
The doors were open to the public,
though the show was not formally
thrown open, and q considerable
number Of people visited it from early
morning. There Is no admission
charge.
John Schneider, the superintendent,
still was III abed and was not able to
be on hand. Secretary Miesen took
full charge, with the assistance Of
Wilbert Field, president of the asso-
citation, o. L. Nordquist. q director, Of
Underwood, and Casper Irish, Bis
marck.
Turkey Display Is Large !.
The turkey display occupies almost
half Of the coop accommodations and
1t includes the three strains of
bronze. red and white. The bronze
display Is especially large. Mrs. d. J..
Wright, 6olen, has D score Of these
birds on display. Some Of the toms
are big fellows, one looking as though
he could tip the scales at about 20
pounds.
The domestic varieties are for the
most part calm and unperturbed and
strut about grandisoely In the narrow
confinement, making their comments
TO one another in suffering gobbles.
There are several wild turkeys. how
ever, which were caught from the
range and brought in and these can
not quiet their nerves. They fuss and
slide around Historically in their
coops and set up general hubbub
every few minutes. to draw vigorous
comment from the attendants.
The chickens are well behaved and
show themselves off to better advan-
age thereby. There are large dis
plays Of Plymouth Rocks, Buff Or
oingtons, White Leghorns. and Rhode
Island Reds. The Leghorns are there
= egg producers. but the others show
n their lines all the attraction they
,ossess for the cook, pot and the
caster. They are magnificent birds.
Big State Prison Exhibit
Sprinkled among these are q num-
YER Of other strains, some Of them Of
he snowy kinds, as the pompommed
?olish with their white topknots Of
Fathers. and the Partridge Wyan-
lotte.
The state prison has IN exhibit Of
bout 40 birds in Rhode Island Reds
md White Leghorns.
The egg display numbers from Is |
o 20 dozen.
Secretary Miesen announced today
hat . number Of turkey toms, some
|ullets. roosters and pen stock had
|rrived for selling. These can be
|oueht Monday afternoon. They |
over breeding stock Of virtually al |
;indS at the show.
Poultry growers who are exhibiting |
include w. NJ. staigle, Hensler: Fred |
3urgemeister, Drske Hatcheries: Mrs.
Trace Olnstead, Bismarck: r. q.
3rant, Sheldon; Ole Everson, Gran
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