Show poultry demonstration train T r ain in brigham last evening over local people view poultry 9 and other displays and hear noted speakers at open air meeting that the poultry special operated cooperatively by uie the union pacific system and the utah agricultural college colleg e was much appreciated by the citizens of brigham city was demonstrated by the fact that more than three hundred people greeted the train upon J its is arrival here monday evening and remained as interested spectators and listeners during the three hours that the train was open tor for inspection and the speaking dag by poultry experts jand and railroad officials was in progress arriving on cm schedule at 7 p in the train was at once thrown open and poultry enthusiasts lied filed into the stripped coach which carried the college exhibits showing the results which might be expected to follow the proper feeding and care of poultry the spectators were then directed through two other cars carrying exhibits of model poultry houses and proper packing methods after inspecting the exhibits the visitors gathered on the parking around the depot where an open air meeting was held the exhibits from beginning to end were systematically arranged in ili a manner to be of greatest informational value to all who viewed them live bird specimens at attractive placards and easily understood explanations by men who know the fundamentals of the poultry business made it possible tor for the spectators to take home with them a full understanding ot of the important por tant lessons that were taught these lessons briefly stated were that utah can continue to produce eggs and poultry of high quality and that this can be done at a profit to the prod producers tickers if they will practice modern methods including proper housing feeding and breeding and exercise care in grading packing and shipping their products pens of high producing pullets from the poultry houses of the agricultural college with an average 3 yearly early production of eggs per bird were exhibited along side ot of ordinary mongrel stock representative of 0 the average farm flock which produces less than eggs per bird in order to show what may be accomplished through feeding birds of high production strains were exhibited aich had received poor rations and these were compared with birds of 0 the same strains which had received good rations the difference in production in some cases amounted to as much as per cent some other birds were exhibited which are now in their fifth consecutive year of production and are still laying better than the best of the average flocks of this state because they are of good breeding and have been properly housed and fed one of the most striking features of the entire train was the exhibit showing the value of skim milk in the feeding rations where here no ao milk had been included in the ration a pen of 0 twenty well bred birds averaged only 58 eggs per bird per year on the same ration plus all the skim milk they would consumes consume twenty other birds ot of the same breeding under identical treatment averaged eggs per bird per year another pen under identical conditions averaged eggs per der bird per year when the birds received besides the skim milk a small quantity of 0 meat meal the importance of culling even the pullets was emphasized by still r other exhibits which showed a per cent difference in production as between good and bad birds from the same flock another interesting exhibit prepared bythe utah poultry producers association cia tion showed the manner of 0 grading eggs how they are arc divided into the different market grades and why these grades bring different market prices on the discriminating markets ot of the east and the west coasts to avoid needless losses in transit the american railway hallway express company as the result ot of painstaking investigation vesti gation has devised packing methods which make it possible to ship eggs by express without breakage these methods were clearly shown by the special exhibits prepared by the express company and explained by its commercial agent who accompanied the poultry special all through idaho and will be with it on the remainder ma ot of its journey through utah the train arrived in utah from idaho monday morning and the first stop was made in richmond it then went to logan thence to hyrum and then came to brigham where it remained over night this morning it nent to tremonton Tre monton and Is now in ili morgan tonight it ft wit wil be in Co coalville alville defor before ending the utah trip it will have visited all of the important towns along the oregon short line the salt lake route and other branches of 0 the unton union pacific in utah speakers at the open air meeting held last evening included professor byron alder who presided and who Is in charge ot of tile the college exhibit C C gignoux assistant agriculturist of 0 the union pacific who is in charge of the poultry special E H hite commercial agent of the american railway express benjamin brown of the utah poultry producers association and P V cardon editor ot of the utah farmer other members ot of the train party included supt bupt C E brooks of pocatello george knutson agriculturist union pacific system L A and S L unit and W H warner assistant poul thymen of the utah experiment station jesse W hoopes secretary of the local poultry association delivered a short address at the opening of the meeting last evening and stressed the importance of 0 the poultry industry in this and other sections of 0 the state vocal guettes were rendered by mrs connie M peters and ed lee orthis of this city tile the meeting was then turned over to professor alder who introduced the speakers of the evening in general the talks delivered were in line with and supplemented the exhibits carried by n explaining the purposes of the train professor alder stated that it was wholly by way ay of stimulating t mu lating further interest in the poultry industry and to teach and demonstrate proper methods of production and marketing so that p profits to the producers might be insured and it possible increased mr gignoux on behalf of the union pacific system stated that the railroad is deeply interested in liel helping ping to de develop elop the poultry industry of the intermountain territory which it that the company would at all times serves ile he assured local poultry men be glad to render whatever assistance may be possible in order to bring to the poultry producers the greatest returns fl from am their labors the interest taken by the american railway express company in cooperating with poultry producers was di discussed s by mr hite who stressed the importance of packing eggs in a manner to avoid unnecessary breakage in the cases his company lie he said is obliged each year to pay out enormous sums to cover loses of this character which are as expensive to the producers as to the carrier the need ot of cooperation in the marketing ot of utah poultry products was a tile the theme ot of the talk made by benjamin brown he explained at some length also the methods employed by the state association in getting local eggs to the best markets in the united states where for several months past they have commanded top prices he expressed a willingness also to discuss the problems of 0 the producers and their association in order to satisfy anybody who had any questions concerning it this offer later led to general discussion of association 80 affairs sir mr cardon summarized the lessons taught by the exhibits on the train and declared that it if these lessons we kept in mind and put into practice the poultry industry of 0 this section would be developed along sate safe lines that would insure its future the exhibits on anthe the train were installed by professor alder the boise payette lumber company and louis exhibit at of the union pacific system who has been engaged in exhibit work with the railroad tor for more than 17 years |