EXHIBITION. 



If successful, you contribute fresh recruits to 

 the army of poultry champions ; if the reverse, 

 you probably purchase a better strain of blood, 

 and retire, for a time, into obscurity, with the 

 somewhat equivocal consolation that 



" AH partial evil" is " uniyersal good," 



determined that, on a future occasion, you will 

 not play the philanthropist on such unsatisfac- 

 tory terms. Philanthropy is, doubtless, a good 

 thing, but it is more self-pleasing when practised 

 through success than defeat. 



Yes, the cold shade of the show-room has dis- 

 pelled many a bright aspiration. 



" So, when the beams of sober reason play, 

 Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! " 



Still, there is nothing like perseverance and 

 patience. 



For attaining victory, I venture to give the no- 

 vice a few hints, the results of my own perils and 

 struggles in the troubled waters of exhibition. 

 The pilot who has " weathered the storm" can best 

 conduct a stranger bark into its wished-for haven. 



I will presume that the chickens have been 

 selected from infancy for exhibition, fed accord- 



