Hubbard's poultry secrets. 91 



For a loose feathered bird that stands too low on account of 

 too much length of feather they pull out feathers enough un- 

 til the birds show better length of shank, or appear to stand 

 higher from the floor. 



I will not take up any more space in this book on faking 

 in the Show Room, but I thought it my duty to tell the ama- 

 teur a few of the many ways he is beaten in the Show Room 

 by the fakir. Never, under any circumstances, should you 

 use any of the above methods of faking, as there is nothing 

 that has hurt the Fancy Poultry business like faking. 



I was at one of the large shows last winter, and saw a Buflf 

 Orpington hen in the pullet class, and the judge gave her first 

 pullet. Tlie owner of the bird showed her to me before the 

 pullets were judged. He asked me what I thought of her. 

 I told him that I thought she looked like a hen. He then 

 told me she was a hen. I tried to have him take her out of 

 the class, but he said that he needed all the Blues he could 

 get. After the judge got through with the Pullet Qass, the 

 owner of this hen came over to me and said, "Well, Hub- 

 bard, the judge gave that hen first pullet." Now, a poultry- 

 man of this type is not helping the Fancy Poultry business 

 one bit, but is doing it much damage. If she were a pullet, she 

 would have been cheap at $50.00 for she would have been 

 good size for a pullet, and Would have made a large hen ; but 

 as it was, she was an undersized hen with small bone, and the 

 man that would buy her would be disappointed when she 

 didn't grow larger, and when she shed out the next year. He 

 would also be more disappointed with the chickens she bred, 

 as they would all be undersized ; for a hen that is undersize, 

 with small bone, is useless as a breeder, and should go in the 

 utility yard. This breeder did not hurt the judge by his pass- 

 ing her as a pullet, but he did wrong to the men he sold her to. 



