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 
