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Poultry at the Norwicli Show. 
The Game Classes must be regarded as an entire failure, for 
there were no entries in the two Classes for Chickens. This is 
due to the objection of breeders to exhibit valuable birds under 
the present conditions. In the Class for Adult Reds there were 
six entries. The winning pen of Black Reds, owned by 
Mr. R. H. Holden, were fair in quality, and that is all. Mr. 
Martin's second-prize Brown Reds were better from every point 
of view, better for the production of table poultry, as well as- 
better in the Show-pen. All the three lots in ^the Any Other 
Variety Game Class were Piles, and were rightly placed. It is 
here to be noted that the best variety of game for crossing is the 
Brown-Red, which has all the elements of a fine table fowl. 
The fourth and last section into which the Show can be 
divided was that for Water Fowl and Turkeys. Here there was 
also a small show. Ducks numbered twenty-one pens in the 
six classes, of which three were absent. In adult Aylesburys 
Mr. W. Weston won with a large capitally shaped lot, of 
course a little rough at this season of the jear, but well deserving 
their place. The second, shown by Mr. Snell, were nearly as 
good, but smaller. The Ducklings made a very nice trio of 
pens, the quality in all of which was remarkable. Both Mr. 
Fowler's and Mr. Weston's were wonderfully forward, and the 
Duke of Hamilton's, though smaller, were beautiful. Rouens 
made a better turn out, numbering ten pens. They were not, 
however, so pleasing in appearance as the Aylesburys, their 
varied colours at this season not being bright. The fact that 
Rouens take longer to mature than do the Buckinghamshire 
fowls was the reason for their better appearance. Mr. Wake- 
Aeld won well in both the Adult and Young Classes. In the 
Any Other Variety of Duck Class for adults, first were a good lot 
of Pekins, owned by Mr. Snell. This breed is capital as a layer 
and very useful as a cross, but it has not fulfilled the promise 
made on its first introduction. Mr. Rogers was second with a 
good lot of the rich-fleshed but small Black East Indian, and the 
Duke of Hamilton was third with a decent trio of the Ornamental 
Carolinas. The only entry of Ducklings was Mr. Fpwler s 
Pekins, which deservedly received the first position. 
There were but two entries in the Adult Geese Class, and not 
one in that for Young Geese. The winning pen was Mr. 
Snell's Toulouse, a large good pair, and, second, the Duke of 
Hamilton's Embdens. 
In the Turkey Classes, those for any other colour than black 
or bronze had no entries whatever, and out of the six: entries in 
the black or bronze two were absent. The winning pen in the 
adults was a very fine lot owned by Mr. Kendrick, jun. The 
youngsters were far too juvenile for a Show-pen, and it cannot 
