476 EXHIBITING AND JUDGING 
showing methods of crating and marketing. In awarding pre- 
miums the size, weight, shape, color, uniformity, texture, and 
cleanliness are all taken into account. Such exhibits can be 
made very instructive by showing improvements in grading and 
marketing, and the higher prices thereby realized. 
Educational exhibits may be of two distinct kinds,—college 
poultry shows and poultry extension exhibits. College shows are 
run by the students themselves as a part of the course of instruc- 
tion in poultry craft. These shows usually embrace all the types 
of exhibits, and are purely for educational purposes, the students 
forming from among their members the organization necessary 
to run the show properly, outlining classes, erecting coops, and 
staging the birds. It is generally the custom to let each student 
make entries from the college flock, the order of selection and 
entry being drawn by lot. In connection with such a show, there 
is usually a competitive judging contest, in which the students 
are given a certain class to judge by comparison, the successful 
competitors winning cups or other premiums for their excellent 
work. The information secured and the experience acquired 
by such an exhibition do more to fix breed types in mind 
and familiarize the student with the objects and methods of 
running a show than weeks of study in the classroom would 
accomplish. 
The second distinctive educational exhibit may be termed 
“poultry extension exhibits at agricultural fairs and poultry 
shows.” Such exhibits are prepared by the poultry departments 
of the State Agricultural Colleges, and are exhibited at all leading 
fairs and shows in their respective States. They deal more with 
methods than with the actual exhibition of birds, although the 
latter is done to some extent. The housing and care of poultry is 
taught by means of models and charts, also feeding, sanitation, 
grading, sorting, and packing. 
The possibilities in such work are almost endless and the 
results far-reaching, for they demonstrate to the farmer the 
teachings of experimental work and offer to the colleges and experi- 
ment stations an opportunity to keep in touch with the conditions 
in different communities. This same kind of exhibit is often used 
in connection with educational train work, where a part of a car 
or a whole one is devoted to a travelling poultry exhibit, which is 
a supplement to lectures given. Demonstrations in killing, pick- 
ing, and packing are alsc given in connection with this educational 
