POULTRY SHOWS AND ASSOCIATIONS 209 



admitted to the American Standard of Perfection under 

 the regulations given in the constitution and by-laws of 

 the American Poultry Association, a copy of which can 

 always be procured from the secretary of that Associa- 

 tion. Any one who contemplates making application for 

 such admission should study these rules very carefully, 

 for there is no other way to obtain recognition except 

 through a full and complete compliance with these rules. 



STANDARD AND NON-STANDARD VARI- 

 ETIES OF POULTRY 



Show-room classifications are not the same in all 

 countries or even in all parts of the same country. 

 In America they are usually made to conform to the 

 breeds and their varieties as listed in the American 

 Standard of Perfection. But in addition to such varie- 

 ties, some show-room classifications will include a few 

 of the non-standard varieties, and the greater number 

 of them will permit classes for any of the non-standard 

 varieties, either of a particular breed or of many breeds. 



The list of breeds and varieties of poultry in the tables 

 on pages 210 to 220 includes only those that are known 

 to reproduce their kind of a settled type of form and 

 color. In the column headed Standard Varieties are 

 listed the varieties of fowls included in the American 

 Standard of Perfection; in the column headed Non- 

 Standard Varieties are listed the varieties not included 

 in that publication, but which are bred in the United 

 States and other countries, many of them being standard 

 varieties in other countries. In this list, for convenience, 

 the Antwerp Brahma is classed as an Asiatic fowl. This 

 is not strictly correct, as it is not a true Brahma and 

 might be classed as a Belgian fowl. 



