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The  Madison  Square  Poultry  Show 
The  great  Madison  Square  Garden 
Poultry  show,  which  has  been  held  an¬ 
nually  for  a  third  of  a  century,  took  place 
this  year  on  January  24  to  28,  and,  as 
usuaU  attracted  a  great  crowd  of  lovers 
of  the  feathered  race.  The  Garden  show 
is  the  “round-up”  of  poultry  breeders, 
manufacturers  of  poultry  feeds  and 
equipment,  and  everything  pertaining  to 
the  business  of  keeping  all  kinds  of  poul¬ 
try,  including  water  fowl,  turkeys,  ban¬ 
tams,  pigeons  and  pet  stock.  The  varied 
exhibits  of  the  different  breeders  of  stand¬ 
ard-bred  poultry  from  all  over  the  United 
States,  Canada,  and  from  some  foreign 
countries,  when  carefully  examined  and 
studied  as  to  their  practical  worth  to  the 
average  utility  poultrymau,  constitutes  a 
very  important  and  helpful  part  of  his 
poultry  education.  Really,  no  man  can 
say  that  he  is  well  informed  unless  he 
knows  what  is  going  on  around  him,  and 
this  is  the  place  to  see  the  latest  results 
of  the  breeders’  art,  the  inventor's  genius 
and  the  manufacturer’s  science.  While  this 
is  primarily  a  fanciers’  show,  a  utility 
poultrymau  finds  many  interesting  fea¬ 
tures,  although  very  few  utility  exhibits 
were  on  display.  lie  sees  large  market 
birds,  especially  the  Black  Jersey  Giants, 
which  were  out  in  full  array  as  a  special 
feature  of  the  show. 
The  Black  Langshans  were  also  out  in 
force,  evidently  trying  titles  with  the 
Giants  for  supremacy  in  meat  production, 
the  Giants  having  somewhat  the  best  of.it 
as  to  numbers.  Several  varieties  of  Or¬ 
pingtons  have  also  retained  considerable 
popularity,  especially  the  Buff,  White  and 
Blue,  and  the  breeders  of  these  varieties 
exhibited  some  fine  specimens,  A  visitor 
to  the  Garden  show  naturally  admires  the 
buff  varieties  of  Leghorns,  Rocks  and 
Wyandottes,  and  it  is  really  wonderful 
to  see  what  a  clear,  even  buff  color  the 
breeders  of  these  varieties  have  secured. 
The  old  reliable  Plymouth  Rocks  and 
Wyandottes  were  there  in  great  style, 
with  fine  quality  from  a  fancier’s  view¬ 
point,  and  their  usual  numbers. 
The  Rhode  Island  Reds  are  always  a 
large  class  at  the  Garden,  and  this  year 
was  no  exception.  The  Reds  are  a  won¬ 
derful  fowl,  “made  in  America,”  and 
have  held  an  important  place  on  the 
money-making  poultry  farms  of  the  coun¬ 
try  for  many  years.  White  Leghorns  of 
the  single  comb  variety,  as  usual,  were 
the  largest  class  in  the  show,  there  being 
135  birds  shown  in  the  single  classes, 
and  20  pens.  The  winning  birds  were 
handsome  to  look  at,  but  their  owners 
have  for  the  most  part  a  polite  way  of 
keeping  out  of  the  egg-laying  competitions. 
The  prizes  were  well  placed,  most  of  the 
winning  birds  being  of  good  size,  while 
some  of  the  others  were  rather  small. 
Some  classes  were  larger  and  some 
smaller  than  last  year,  so  they  averaged 
i.r>  about  the  same.  The  bantam  classes 
were  particularly  strov>~  iu  qualitv  as 
well  as  numbers,  and  gave  the  impression 
that  there  are  many  wealthy  people  in 
the  world  who  keep  birds  for  pleasure 
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small  to  compete  with  common  hens’  eggs, 
which  are  mostly  produced  by  people  who, 
from  necessity,  make  their  living  from 
the  market  end  of  the  business.  The  lower 
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poultry  supplies  and  the  sales  classes  of 
the  different  varieties  of  poultry.  A  very 
interesting  and  instructive  feature  of  this 
lower  level  exhibit  was  a  duck-picking 
contest  and  demonstration  conducted  by 
the  Long  Island  duck  producers.  Poul¬ 
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level  each  afternoon  and  evening,  where 
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I  have  a  backyard  flock  of  about  28 
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Minorcas.  They  pull  the  feathers  from 
each  other  and  eat  them.  Some  of  them 
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