The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-10-14

Meet His Majesty, the Sultan!
Sultan is the name of this breed of
chicken, to be exhibited at the
Worlds Poultry Congress. All Sui
tans have crest, beard, muffs and
divided comb.
bi1lion-dollar class. For the last
twelve years, according to the De-
partment of Agriculture reports, the
gross income to farmers has aver
aged approximately $1,000, 100000
More farmers are engaged in
raising poultry than are engaged in
raising any other farm commodity.
But the poultry business by no
means ends with the farmers.
There are $4,000 commercial and
breeder baby chick hatcheries.
There are many thousand agencies
buying eggs and poultry from farm
ers, processing and packing these
products, and distributing to the
various retail, hotel and restaurant
outlets. Estimates of these mar
keting agencies, exclusive of small
10000 to 10000.
Thousands Engaged in Distribution.
There are several hundred cold
storage warehouses handling poul-
try products, hundreds of feed man.
ufacturers and dealers, and a large
number of equipment, incubator
and remedy manufacturing con-
Germs. There are thousands of
agencies such as retail stores, dairy
and poultry stores, restaurants, no.
tells and cafes.
Memberships of numerous trade
associations use in one way or an
other the products of the. poultry
industry. There are more than 400
state, regional and national poultry
organizations. In addition to the
regular poultry and agricultural
press, there is scarcely daily or
weekly newspaper in the United
States which does not print, regu-
larly or occasionally, columns or
items having to do with poultry
raising.
All of these factors, combined
with the holding of two world fairs
in the United States in 1889, one in
New York and one in San Francisco,
to attract foreign visitors, seem to
point to an attendance at the Sew
enth Worlds Poultry Congress and
Exposition that will shatter all pre-
vious records. The Department of
Agriculture own estimate is gate
total of 100000, with $4,000 visitors
participating in the activity and
staying over two or three days.
Canada is expected to send 1000
visitors and it is believed there will
be at least another thousand from
other foreign countries.
Before getting into the details of
the program, which should certain
ly keep the time of the visitors well
occupied, it might be in order to
sketch roughly the background of
the congress.
1t was Is years ago that James
E. Rice, then head of the poultry
department of Cornell university,
and Sir Edward Brown, of England,
organized the International Associa-
ton of Investigators and Instructors
of Poultry Husbandry, later re-
named the Worlds Poultry Science
association. They conceived an in
ternational poultry congress at
which poultry people of the world
could assemble to discuss the as
poets and problems of the indus
try.
The World war halted their plans
temporarily, but in 1921 the first
Worlds Poultry congress was held
in The Hague, Netherlands. Re
suits were so satisfactory that a
congress has been conducted every
third year since, with many coun-
tries participating.
Congress Attendance Records.
Barcelona was host to the con-
gress in 1924; 81 countries took part
and the gate clicked off 175,000 adj