EXHIBITION OF STANDARD-BRED POULTRY 485 
Arrange the aisles and doors so as to reduce to a minimum 
the possibility of strong drafts of air blowing down the aisles 
and on the birds in the pens. 
Plan for comparatively wide aisles, in order to accommodate 
the visitors without crowding. 
So arrange the aisles that the visitors can systematically 
make trips through the entire exhibit with the least possible 
retracing of steps. 
Previous to the show, the manager should make all prepara- 
tions for the immediate cooping of the birds when they reach 
the exhibition hall, also for feeding them during the show. In 
the larger shows this privilege of feeding the birds is often given 
to one of the larger concerns that manufacture poultry feed, and 
they often take the entire responsibility of cooping and feeding 
for a merely nominal sum,—sometimes for the advertising value 
alone. 
Arrangements for cleanliness during the show must also 
be made. This involves the cleaning of the pens and the 
placing of fresh litter,—usually consisting of shavings or cut 
straw,—and also the daily spraying of the pens with a good- 
disinfectant. 
As soon as premiums have been awarded, the larger poultry 
shows publish a catalogue of exhibitors and winners, which is a 
great advertisement for the exhibitors and a very essential feature 
of the purely financial show. 
One of the most important duties of the superintendent is 
to secure competent judges, and the greatest care must be 
exercised to choose men of experience, integrity, and force of 
character. 
Selection of Judges.—Realizing the desirability of having 
reliable judges always available, from among whom secretaries of 
shows can, if they desire, make their choice, the American Poul- 
try Association has organized a licensed bureau of judges, composed 
of all the available judges of poultry of good character who care to 
register. 
It should be the duty of every secretary so to manage his 
exhibit that, during the time the judges are performing their 
work, it will be impossible for any unscrupulous exhibitor pur- 
posely or otherwise to bias in any way the decision of the judges. 
The best plan is to bar all persons except the judges and their 
secretaries from the showroom during the time that judging is 
