Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — BIG POULTRY SHOW. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIG POULTRY SHOW.

Aristocracy of the Feathered , on Exhibition in Chicago. Three thousand aristocrats of the poultry world contested for honors in the national poultry show recently held in Chicago by the National Fanciers’ and Breeders’ Associa t ion. The breeding of the finest stock Is becoming so popular In the Middie West that products of this section have begun to take prizes at the New York poultry show’,

which Is the largest event of the kind, and _to carry off all the honors in the Chicago event, which is second lb importance. # There was a large increase thlp year in the n tun her of entries. The champion of an hens, owned by Ernest Kellerstrnss, of Kansas City, nnd valued nt $2,500, was there, as well as numerous other chickens valued nt from SOOO to sl,ooot Fighting -cocks, wild turkeys and ducks, homing pigeons with records ns victorious racers over distances ranging from 100 to 1,000 miles, and pheasants such as English noblemen shoot, bred on the largest pheasant farm in the country fifteen miles from Chicago, were attractions. Baby chicks were batched out in lucubatora every dny of the show. At White Hock, I’s., John Wintle was <hot dead by Mrs. James Ilcnter while he was trying to force his way Into her home in the absence of her husband. The shot drew a crowd, but for eight hours tli* woman defied the officers and only surrendered when her husband returned home. The Burlington and Union Pacific will take porters off chair car* and do away with flagmen on some of their passenger trains, according to a dispatch from Omaha. Retrenchment is given as the reason. T* . -

SILVER WYANDOTTE HEN-F. H. JONES