AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



At the show it usually is best for the beginner, 

 or some one interested in his exhibit, to personally 

 look after his birds. The management will attend 

 to the fowls as well as they can, and usually satis- 

 factorily, but they have many to care for and neces- 

 sarily have to do the work hurriedly and do not 

 understand individual methods of feeding and 

 caring for the birds as their owner does. Keep 

 the coops, as well as the birds themselves, as clean 

 as possible during the show, and give the birds 

 meat and green food every day in addition to their 

 grain. 



Which Are the Best Fowls? The best fowl is, 

 of course, the one that most nearly fulfills the 

 " Standard " description, valued at one hundred 

 points. The bird that is perfect in every respect 

 has never been grown. Ninety to ninety-four 

 points are the most common scores among exhibi- 

 tion stock. Fowls scoring more than ninety-five 

 honest points are rare and valuable. 



Judging. There are -two leading methods of 

 judging poultry, viz., the " comparison " and the 

 " score-card." By the former the judge selects the 

 winner by comparison, and no scores are given out 

 because none are made, the birds being judged 

 solely by their relative merits. The score-card sys- 

 tem gives the most satisfaction to the beginner, 

 because he can learn much by studying the score 

 cards of his fowls, seeing just where they are weak 



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