EXHIBITION OF STANDARD-BRED POULTRY 483 



The exhibitor should personally attend to cooping his birds 

 for the return journey; for, in the hurry and commotion at the 

 last, there is always danger of mixing the birds, but personal 

 care will prevent it. The exhibitor should secure his premium 

 cards and ribbons for future reference and display. It is unwise 

 to place the ribbons won on the outside of the coop. The best 

 plan is to suspend them from the centre of the coop on the inside, 

 or against the back on the inside, where they can readily be seen 

 from the front. On returning home, the birds should be put in 

 their training coops and kept under quarantine for ten days, to 

 make sure that they have caught no contagion while at the show. 

 If they are soon to be sent to another exhibition, it is well to leave 

 them in the fitting coops during the intervening time. 



There are many advantages and possibilities in exhibiting, 

 yet there may be resulting losses. The most common are from 

 disease contracted from neighboring birds, and colds resulting 

 in roup due to improper conditions in the exhibition rooms. The 

 exhibitor must be constantly on the lookout for such troubles 

 during the progress of the show. Quite commonly during transit, 

 either the shipping coops are sent to the wrong place and cannot 

 be traced, or the birds die from severe weather or rough usage. 



Show Associations and the Work.— Poultry shows are usually 

 held by poultry associations which may or may not be incorpo- 

 rated. The small show is usually started by a few members in- 

 terested in breeding standard-bred birds. Larger shows, however, 

 are started by an organization incorporated with the object of 

 holding shows. Such an association adopts a constitution and 

 by-laws and elects annually its regular officers, usually a presi- 

 dent, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. It also usually 

 elects or appoints an additional officer, known as the show sec- 

 retary, who is directly responsible for the financing and operation 

 of the show itself. He, in turn, appoints his assistants and super- 

 intendents, the need of these and their number depending upon 

 the size of the show. Many of the larger shows are the outgrowth 

 of small local shows held under the auspices of a small group of 

 breeders. In some sections of the country the small poultry show 

 is gaining favor rapidly. 



The first duty of the superintendent of the show and his 

 assistants is to write and issue the premium list, which designates 

 the classes into which entries must be divided, also the premiums 

 which will be paid to the winners. Such a premium list should be 



