Show THE POULTRY SHOW It Vlll Open on 3Iondnj at Xoon The ninth annual exhibition of the 1 Utah Poultry association will open at 215 South East Temple street at 12 oclock noon I j The exhibition promises to bo the I I most interesting yet held by the association asso-ciation It will be a tug of war from opening to close on the part of the exhibitors to establish who has the best specimens speci-mens of pure bred poultry of their respective re-spective kinds aid tine secretary yesterday yes-terday It is nine years now since the association was organized and we have held shows each year but this will be our best exhibition Judging from the interest that is being shown it will be a great success so far as birds are concerned as there are a great many who arc determined to walk off with the prizes which will be awarded and to assure a greater success we will have Theau Hews as scoring judge And the name of Hews alone signifies to all who are acquainted with that j i gentlemen or his reputation that they I will get justice meted out to them in the show room on the merits or racer birdsMr Hews comes from Missouri being I be-ing engaged by the association to do the scoring and I must say here that he has no superior as a poultry judge and very few equals in the United I States Those who have become acquainted of birds in quainted with the merits I the east when they visit our liow next week will see that Utah has got as I good stock as can be found anywhere For instance take the president of our association the genial judge W W Browning of Ogden He is now teadhing the United States how to i breed the popular buff cochin tbo favorites fa-vorites of the show room His birds are being widely sought after and they always take first prize wherever they are shown They carried off everything every-thing in the way of prizes in their class at Denver last year and a Utah cockerel cock-erel neaded the pen of birds that took first honors at the show held at Kansas Kan-sas City last winter Mr Browning also breeds the celebrated cele-brated Barred Plymouth Rocks the ideal of American birds and if you I dont thinl there will ibe hot competition competi-tion in this class just visit the showroom i show-room and see the 150 beautiful Barred Plymouth Rocks that will bo on exhibition exhi-bition Mr Day who is a breeder of I this variety also has a number of beauties Now the White Plymouth Rocks a great many people say are I far ahead of their cousins the Barred I but to find that out you must just askEd ask-Ed Jones of the Twentythird ward as he breeds them both to the greatest I perfection He Ss also an artist in preparing pre-paring them for the show room The larger birds that will be on exhibition will be the light Brahmas The standard I stand-ard weight of the male bird is twelve I pounds The tug on this variety will be between Mr Earl and our city recorder re-corder and it will be interesting to watch which wins There are a great many other varieties va-rieties of chickens There will also be ducks as large as geese as the exhibitor exhibi-tor from Forest Dale will need a two horse team to bring them up to town And turkeys Did you ever see a topknot top-knot turkey Well we will show one with feathers in his head six inches long Those who have seen him say he is the greatest freak of nature they i ever seen Besides these there will be pigeons of all kinds rabbits Guinea pigs pheasants etc in great numbers num-bers |