AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
At the show it usually is best for the beginner, 
or some one interested in his exhibit, to personally 
look after his birds. The management will attend 
to the fowls as well as they can, and usually satis- 
factorily, but they have many to care for and neces- 
sarily have to do the work hurriedly and do not 
understand individual methods of feeding and 
caring for the birds as their owner does. Keep 
the coops, as well as the birds themselves, as clean 
as possible during the show, and give the birds 
meat and green food every day in addition to their 
grain. 
Which Are the Best Fowls? The best fowl is, 
of course, the one that most nearly fulfills the 
“Standard” description, valued at one hundred 
points. The bird that is perfect in every respect 
has never been grown. Ninety to’ ninety-four 
points are the most common scores among exhibi- 
tion stock. Fowls scoring more than ninety-five 
honest points are rare and valuable. 
Judging. There are two leading methods of 
judging poultry, viz., the ‘‘ comparison” and the 
“score-card.” By the former the judge selects the 
winner by comparison, and no scores are given out 
because none are made, the birds being judged 
solely by their relative merits. The score-card sys- 
tem gives the most satisfaction to the beginner, 
because he can learn much by studying the score 
cards of his fowls, seeing just where they are weak 
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