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a weekly list of all coming shows should be favoured with 

 these announcements. .The best papers to advertise in are : 

 The Bazaar, 170, Strand, London (see p. 391); Poultry, 171, 

 Fleet Street, London; and Feathered World, 273, Strand, 

 London. There are a few others, but those mentioned are 

 doubtless the most popular and best. The notices should be 

 sent for publication as soon as the programmes are ready for 

 distribution. It is customary, likewise, to advertise in each of 

 the local papers published in the town where the exhibition is 

 about to take place; one insertion in each paper is generally 

 considered sufficient. It should appear in the week prior to 

 that in which the show is to be held. There are several reasons 

 why this custom should not be overlooked or neglected, and one 

 is that a favourable report of the proceedings, &c., is likely to 

 follow, and these notices are calculated to bring the society 

 into favour and public estimation. 



POINTS PRIZES. Silver cups and other special prizes of 

 considerable value are frequently offered as inducements to 

 fanciers to swell their entries. At one time I was in favour 

 of this scheme, but experience, that unerring monitor, has 

 taught me to regard this plan as objectionable, as it is open 

 to so much abuse, and is found to tempt some exhibitors to 

 place themselves in a false position, which proves a means of 

 deluding fanciers at a distance, who are totally ignorant of the 

 real facts of the case. I have known exhibitors who have 

 succeeded in obtaining these trophies not only borrow birds 

 from their brother fanciers, but do even worse, for, in order 

 to comply with the rule (common to all shows of this kind) 

 stipulating that "all birds must be bond fide the property of 

 the exhibitor," they have agreed to mock purchases, the owner 

 of the bird agreeing to sell, for a mere nominal sum, to the 

 exhibitor, upon condition that at the termination of a certain 

 show the said bird shall be re-sold to him for the same amount 

 as he received for it, and that the said vendor (real owner) 

 shall be entitled to all prize moneys won by such bird in its 

 own individual capacity, and, furthermore, that he shall be 

 entitled to participate in a proportionate share of the said 

 special prize or prizes obtained by the exhibitor, the latter 



