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hibition, was a • strong and convincing answer to the 

 charge so often made that the horse show at the fair is 

 the only feature that interests the Kentuckian. 



There were so many interesting features of the 

 show in the Sheepi and Goat Department, that to mention 

 them all my report would not be brief. 

 EespectfuUy submitted, 

 P. B. Gaines, 



Superintendent of Department. 



POULTEY DEPARTMENT. 



The Department of Poultry and Pigeons staged dur- 

 ing the 1915 exhibition far outnumbered any of the pre- 

 vious efforts and reached the grand total of 1,780 birds. 

 For the first time in the history of the Fair, and to further 

 attest the popularity and growth of the poultry depart- 

 ment as an advertising medium, we were this year re- 

 warded with entries of some of the most widely known 

 fanciers of the more popular strains of poultry and 

 pigeons, and quite a few applications have already been 

 received asking that the classification for another year 

 be enlarged to accept every known variety, and we are 

 sure of the co-operation of the fair board to enable the 

 fulfilling of these requests. 



Not only in point of number was the exhibition a 

 success, but also in ahnost every breed, and many com- 

 ments were made on the quality exhibited, and several 

 who have made the show in former years and thinking 

 that the competition would not necessitate such extreme 

 care and conditioning necessary to carry off the honors 

 in s. National Winter Exhibition, were sadly disappointed 

 when they arrived and the birds were placed in their 

 coops ready for judging. 



One well known artist from Chicago was very much 

 surprised to find Kentucky could give just as good an 

 account in a poultry way as along other lines of live 

 stock, and made the comment that competition was as 

 strong in some classes as he had noticed anywhere, and 

 when artists from Buffalo, Chicago and Cleveland came 



