HISTORY OF ANCONAS 
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Minnesota Ancona Club, 
Chas. R. Atchison, Secy., 14 North 
First Ave., Duluth, Minn. 
Missouri Ancona Club, 
Phil Jones, Secy., Sheldon, Mo. 
Nebraska Ancona Club, 
Henry Steffensmeyer, Secy., 2112 Cal¬ 
vert St., Lincoln, Neb. 
New Hampshire Ancona Club, 
Walter L. Scott, Secy., Windham, 
N. H. 
New York Ancona Club, 
Earl S. Wilson, Secy., Hammonds- 
port, N. Y. 
North Carolina Ancona Club, 
Worth M. Lewallen, Secy., High 
Point, N. Car. 
Ohio Ancona Club, 
J. O. Somers, Secy., Bedford, Ohio. 
Oklahoma Ancona Club, 
F. L. Lucas, Secy., 608 Ferris Ave., 
Lawton, Okla. 
Pennsylvania Ancona Club, 
C. E. Johnson, Secy., Route 3, Ligo- 
nier, Pa. 
South Carolina Ancona Club, 
Wendell M. Levi, Secy., Sumter, So. 
Car. 
Texas Ancona Club, 
A. W. Becker, Secy., Box 1176, Dal¬ 
las, Tex. 
Wisconsin Ancona Club, 
W. H. Handorf, Secy., Route 2, Box 
843, Milwaukee, Wis. 
The question is sometimes asked, 
“Why join my breed Club?” I take 
pleasure in reciting some of the rea¬ 
sons for joining. 
Now, the least advantage, is to be 
counted among the progressive breed¬ 
ers, for these Clubs are always made 
up of the most active, progressive and 
influential men and women. 
As an individual breeder you spend 
very little for boosting. Suppose you 
spend $5.00 or $10.00—how far does 
it go? Makes no impression whatever. 
Might about as well throw that amount 
of money away as to try to boost on 
isuch a small scale. But when Club 
members combine their small fees, and 
concentrate their efforts, then it is that 
real boosting is done. 
Suppose a lone breeder wants some 
concession for his breed from a show 
management, a more capable judge, 
etc. His request or protest is given 
scant attention. Let the club ask the 
very same thing, and lo! the favor is 
granted. 
Poultry Journals give columns of 
space to Club affairs, when the individ¬ 
uals could only get similar notice at 
several dollars per inch. 
Organization largely increases ex¬ 
hibition. It is the experience in every 
State that a breed is progressing in 
proportion to the organization of its 
breeders. There can be no other way, 
for progress can only be made by co¬ 
operation, which is organization spell¬ 
ed a little differently. 
No breed of poultry, horses, hogs, 
cattle, sheep, dogs, rabbits, etc., ever 
came into prominence without organ¬ 
ized effort of the breeders behind it. 
The more breeders that are united, and 
the larger the organization fee, the big¬ 
ger the boost, and the faster the breed 
arose to prominence. Club member¬ 
ship is not an expense, but an invest¬ 
ment, and one that pays dividends from 
several hundred to several thousand 
per cent. 
From a purely selfish and mercenary 
motive, every breeder shn.ild oe nn°c To 
and support their breed Club, and from 
a broader motive of helping a good 
cause, and lending a neighbor a hand, 
of making conditions better and fellow¬ 
ship more real, you as a breeder, can¬ 
not afford to stand aloof and share in 
the benefits of Club boosting, without 
giving your breed organizations both 
moral and financial support. 
During the war these “loafers” were 
branded as “slackers” and a better 
term never was invented. It applies 
in poultrydom quite as well.— (Sign¬ 
ed) A. JOINER in O. K. Poultry Jour¬ 
nal. 
