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Show UTAH'S POULTRY FANCIERS. A few years ago poultry raising throughout the United States, was not looked upon as anything of interest in-terest at all. But in later years it has grown immensely. It is not uncommon un-common now, to pick up a poultry journal and sec, where a person has paid from two to fifty dollars for a single bird. And not long ago I sec where a lady had paid ten thousand dollars for a pen of white Orpingtons. Whereas, a few years ago if fifty dollars dol-lars had been asked for birds equally as" good it would have seemed outrageous. out-rageous. All this goes to show what tin interest has been taken in the art of poultry raising, in the past few years. And in this, Utah is among the first, as she is in all things the same. Wc have here in Utah a class of cpo-plc cpo-plc who, when anything is brougt out, will work shoulder to shoulder to help it along. One would soon notice this had he 'been attending the poultry shows during the past few years. I met a man as I was going into the 'show, held recently, who said, "Oh it is a fairly good show." Now this man had not stopped to think of the money that had been spent, the worry and care it had taken by each one of the different members of the association. He had not thought of the hours it had taken, dny after day, and year after year, to work up the different strains and breeds that are needed to compile and bring before the public, such a show as was held here, in the metropolis metro-polis of the West, not Hong ago. Hwvc you ever stopped to think, Mr. reader, that to produce something that will attract the attention of the man who, a few years ago would not look up if he heard a rooster crow, to such a mark as to make him look about if he 1 ard a noise anything like that of feathers, that it takes a great deal of labor and worry to bring this out. Our poultry raisers arc to be praised prais-ed for what they have done in the line of making Utah great in the poultry raising part of the world as arc they who have done so in other lines. Some people go into a show and sec the birds and go out saying, I "I wouldn't have a chicken in my yard for anything." The very next morning this same man gets up and has words with his wife, because she has no eggs for breakfast. There is just one little thing to bring before the public here and that is this, the inventors and experimenters experiment-ers of today have duplicated almost every thing there is with the exception except-ion of hen fruit, and this seems to be a hard nut for them to crack. Now why not stop your grumbling at the man who is trying hard to bring Utah to the front, why not help him along? It would be appreciated appre-ciated and would help the people of the State, if our Legislators would appropriate a little money to show the poultry men of the state that what they were doing was being appreciated, ap-preciated, and also to help them to put before the people of the state, better and larger shows. I am not a poulty man and do not belong to the association, but I have been to every show for the last five years and have found out just what they arc doingt therefore I feel free to give this little talk on a promising help to Utah. R. M. II. |