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February 
THE SHOW RING AND “UTILITY.” 
‘•Would the blue ribbon winners at poul¬ 
try shows be likely to win prizes in an 
egg contest? Why do not the perpetual 
winners of these blue ribbons enter hens as 
layers ?” 
In my opinion these blue ribbon win¬ 
ners are bred for just what they are, to 
show, and there are not many breeders 
who would want to put a pen of these 
show birds in any egg-laying contest, 
because some breeders breed for feathers 
and they could not have much show in 
any egg-laying contest. I have visited 
some poultry farms and seen some nice 
birds, and they never went to the show 
room. If I were a beginner in the poul¬ 
try business I would buy my stock from 
a responsible breeder, and I would not 
be particular about his having show 
birds just so that he had a good laying 
strain. chas. e. stone. 
New York. 
In my opinion perpetual winners of 
blue ribbons at poultry shows would 
stand no chance in an egg-laying contest 
with utility birds, as show birds are 
too often bred for that purpose only at 
the expense of egg-laying qualities. 
New York. w. g. 
Most owners would consider the birds 
too valuable as producers of stock to 
risk them in laying contests, where they 
would perhaps be forced and handled 
in such a way as perhaps to spoil their 
breeding qualities; also that most breed¬ 
ers would consider them more valuable 
as producers of winners than as layers. 
That is, they would perhaps get many 
times as much for their progeny as they 
could hope to get as winners of a laying 
contest, and consider the risk of their 
being spoiled as breeders. As to the 
other question of what chance they might 
have against utility birds, would think 
that many good feathered birds are good 
layers, while some stocks of some breeds 
have perhaps been spoiled for layers by 
going to extremes in feathers, as the 
Brahmas and Cochins; think that the 
American breeds have not suffered so 
much in that way, and high-bred birds 
of that class would give a good account 
of themselves, provided owners cared to 
risk them. r. g. davis. 
Massachusetts. 
In the first place, the breeder secures 
a very small percentage of show birds 
from the many hatched during the sea¬ 
son, and when these birds are shown 
and win they become a money-making 
asset of perhaps 100 to 500 per cent, in¬ 
creased value over a utility bird, this 
being their actual money-making value. 
It is necessary for most breeders to real¬ 
ize at once from such birds, each egg 
from a prize mating from any of the 
large shows being worth dollars in com¬ 
parison to a utility egg which is worth 
cents. For instance, a high-class male 
Rhode Island Red that has taken a 
prize well to the front in Madison Square 
might be worth anywhere from $250 
to $1,000, and a female, say, half the 
price. It certainly would not pay a 
breeder to risk such birds in egg con¬ 
tests, and it would be a great loss from 
a pecuniary standpoint to the owner in 
not being able to realize on the valuable 
egg output that such a mating would 
be sure to command. 
When a breeder has a high-class show 
bird he is exhibited possibly two, three 
or four times during the Winter season. 
This would interfere materially with the 
bird’s vitality, as far as excessive • egg 
yield is concerned, and even although 
the individual might compete under dif¬ 
ferent circumstances, and show a most 
favorable comparison with any of the 
birds entered in an egg contest, the fact 
of its having been shown depletes to a 
certain extent its vitality and the egg 
output would necessarily be curtailed. 
To sum up the matter, while the show 
bird in all probability would favorably 
compare in egg output with the utility 
bird, he is much more valuable to handle 
as a show bird than under any circum¬ 
stances as a utility bird. These are the 
main reasons why, in the writer’s opin¬ 
ion, one seldom, if ever, sees show birds 
entered in an egg contest. However, 
there are no reasons known to the writer 
why any show bird should not favorably 
compare in any contest provided it has 
the natural vigor, which most conscien¬ 
tious breeders are careful to conserve in 
all their show stock. 
New York. Sinclair smith. 
From my 15 years’ experience in the 
show room and as a utility breeder I 
would say that no man with the knowl¬ 
edge of the laying characteristics of the 
hen would pick an ideal show specimen 
for an egg contest, as they are two en¬ 
tirely different birds in one -strain. The 
show bird is bred (and very often in- 
bred) for feathers, comb, ear lobe and 
shape to beautify, while the laying bird 
is bred for feed and organ capacity to 
enable her to accomplish that which she 
is bred for—eggs. To illustrate, I had 
the opportunity of assisting the judging 
of one $1,000 bird in a show last week. 
The association offered a silver cup for 
best pullet in show. The award was 
placed on a White Leghorn; she was a 
fine specimen to look at, small of fea¬ 
ture, with a narrow, trim body, quick 
and alert. In a pen by side of the win¬ 
ning pullet was a fine specimen of the 
laying type, with a long, broad deck, 
body a little above the average in size, 
quick and on the move at all times, 
and she did not even get an honorable 
mention, and to my judgment so long 
as the Standard does not put the laying 
type above the present show type they 
are digressing. e. h. plank. 
Pennsylvania. 
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