PIGEON DEPARTMENT. 



Open to all Standard Varieties. 



Entries shall be of single birds, or of collections. 



A collection is the birds in one coop without compartments'. The number 

 of specimens not limited, but the entry must be of one variety. The entry fee 

 will be as follows : 



Single birds $ 50 



Q)llection of 10 pairs or less i 00 



" " 10 to 25 pairs 2 00 



On large collections the fee will be a matter of correspondence. 

 Only the birds entered and shown singly will be scored. But birds -entered 

 singly after being scored may be marked and added to a collection. 



No one will be permitted to be in the vicinity of the coops, or to converse 

 with or make suggestions to a judge when at his work. 



All coops will be secured by lock. No one will be permitted to have access 

 to the occupants of the coops except by permission of the owner in writing, 

 endorse;d by the manager of the department. 



No specimen can be removed from the coops during the show except by per- 

 mission of at least two other exhibitors in this class. 



Every bird entered singly will be judged, and if not disqualified, will be 

 accorded a certificate or merit as a first, second or third rate bifd. This cer- 

 tificate to bear the signature of its judge. 



The judge of each variety will be an expert in that variety and will not be an 

 exhibitor directly or indirectly in that class. 



The money prizes will be 



For best cock • • • $1 00 



" " hen , I 00 



To receive a money prize the bird must have first received a certificate as a 

 first rate bird, dnd the class must.have had at least five entries. 



The Special Silver Cup for Homing pigeons is open to competition by the 

 birds of any exhibitor at the show. Certificates will be given for each of the 

 birds on exhibition for each of the distances of a Federation series, and for the 

 bird shown with record for greatest distance. Rules of the American Feder- 

 ation to govern. ■ , - ' 



Birds must be shown in natural cpndition. Plucking, adding feathers, 

 painting, dyeing, making, or the practice of any of the arts known to the 

 pigeon fancier,will disqualify the bird and be published. 



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