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Newspaper
Tambellup Times
Location
Tambellup, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 06, 1917
Page
4
The notice outlines office bearers and conditions for a poultry show including entry fees, quarantine, and judging standards. It lists prizes, class entries, age limits for cockerel and pullet classes, late entry dates, penning times, and a detailed prize list by breed and gender with counts for each category.
A dense listing of chicken and duck breeds with sexes and age references including Langshans Hamburgs Pekin Rouen Muscovy Aylesbury and Bantams along with terms like cock cockerel hen pullet drake duck gander and various color descriptors. It reads as a segment of a poultry inventory or price table.
Members receive admission for themselves and a guest to all events, with voting rights at meetings. Children are charged half price and a separate Members’ Ticket costs 7s. 6d.
A compact proverb-like item notes that steady effort wins outcomes. It contrasts the erosion of stone by water with a lover’s steady wooing and the advertiser who persistently courts customers, implying persistence secures success.
Entries include 132 white shelled hens eggs 133 brown shelled eggs 134 duck eggs with double yolk barred. Prize 5s awarded based on class size weight evenness and quality.
At Copley’s Siding on May 29 Mesers Dalgety and Co report 388 cattle mostly Moira from Derby with beef prices ranging from 16 to 22 12s 6d and cows 10 to 12 10s. Yarded 4,881 sheep and lambs and 563 pigs from Murchison Midland areas. small attendance of buyers, grassers active, prices largely steady with some drops for medium quality. Lambs and wethers sold similarly to prior week. pigs show varied spreads with heavy sows up to 90s and stores to 24s 8d.
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