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BIG POULTRY SHOW COMES TO CLOSE AT 11 P. M
, Butt * a v '»itor.
Mrs T V. Butts, of Columbus
one of the many out-of-town vis
at the show. Mrs. Butts did not
an entry at this show, hut she won
and fourth cock, first cockerel and
oik! pullet at the Columbus show
Egg Carrier Comes
With Fifteen Eggs
Successful Breeder
Is Larkin Hill, Ji
No Breakage in Trip From Rochester
to Atlanta—Devices Attract
Much Attention.
Lakev/Ood Heights Lad Learie With
Sweepstakes Cockerel LangrO an
in Children's Department.
X o. 13 is
Sweep stakes
White Orping
ton cock of
show, owned by
William Cook &
Son, Seotch
Plains, X. J.
The egg carrying device display at
the poultry show of the Star Egg Car
rier and Tray Manufacturing Company,
Rochester, N. Y., has attracted a great
peal of attention F. 1). Meade, who is
manager of the display, shows an egg
carrier containing fifteen eggs, sent
from Buffalo. X. V . by parcel post,
and arriving in Atlanta In perfect con
dition* covering a distance of about 1,1.00
mile?.
Following announcement of prize win
nings. Mr. Meade took a great many
orders. His devices are intended to
preserve the eggs from breakage. One
feature is the baby chick box for ship
ping live chicks.
The factory at Rochester is the only
one of Its kind making a specialty of
egg-handling devices. The concern
spent ten years perfecting two of its
egg carriers.
l-jirkln X. Mill, Jr., of Lakewood
Heights, is the proud pi. lessor of a Ion*:
string of prizes on Black LangHhai.*
both in tha big show and in *he chil
dren’s class. <»ut of ten entries in th«
big show, his Black Langshans wot:
third pen, second cockerel, first and
second pullet and fifth cock.
on three entries In the children’s
show he won sweepstakes cockerel, flrsi
and second cockerel and third pullet,
Larkin Hill, Jr., is only 14 .■••ear** old,
and is one of the most enthusiastic boy
breeders in ihe South.
Officials Jubilant Over Success and «
Greater Exhibits for Ne\1 Year—Out
of-Town Folk Are Fast Departing.
Hapeville, East Point and Buckhead.
Friday's attendance was by far the
best of the exhibition, and was very
gratifying to the officers of the poul
try association. It was noted in this
connection that tii° poultry show did
not draw Immense crowds on the
average, but J. .\1. Poole, secretary,
declared that he expected next year s
exhibition to prove much better in
tills respect. It has been proposed t<>
provide sjt future shows for some kind
of musical entertainment in order t"
give an added zee; to ♦he display of
birds.
"The people must l. • entertained,"
declared a show official, “or they
won’t come out in giva; number?, n<»
matter how high class the show. If
we could provide some lively music I
think there would he a great differ
ence in the figures. And it goes with
out saying that much more interest in
poultry would be the result. When it
is considered that the hen does more
than any other single industry in
feeding the world, the importance of
taking good care of chickens and in
having as many of them as possible Is
apparent."
Reduced admission to school chil
dren has been announced for the
show Saturday, and it is expected that
hundreds will avail themselves of the
opportunity. Teachers will accom
pany the young folks and instruct
them in the way's of poultry
Tiie annual show of the Southern
International Poultry Association is
all but over. It will close Saturday
night at 1 o’clock, and most of the
exhibitors will depart for tin Bu
rning haw ahow, which opens Monday.
The Tampa show is set for Decern be
29-Jamiaiy A, and the poultrymen will
in many instances go from Birming
ham to Tampa.
A • in 'ty of awards of the judge-
at •’ ;fitry show reveals the fact
i rfil birds got the largest
mm -f firsts and seconds, which
was ((together expected, in view
of t < , rgo number of entries from
New Jersey. Ohio, Mississippi. South
Carolina, Tennessee. Alabama, Flor
ida and other States.
The firm of Thomas Cook & Sons,
of Scotch Plains, X. J.. for instance,
took ten firsts with their single Or
pingtons and various pens. The Al
drich farms of Ohio were large win
ners. and the South Carolina, Ala
bama. Mississippi and Tennessee
chicken farms took enough prizes and
ribbons to make It interesting foi
■ :<>rgia.
A feature of the winnings lay i.n
he fact that Atlanta chickens did
unusually well. Usually the large
chicken farm in the city proper is a
rarity, but out in the suburbs there
are many thriving establishments,
particularly at College Park. Devatui.
Winner* from Columbia.
»: L. Allison, of Columbia, S. <?.,
v <-n second prize with a Black Orping
mn <ockerel and fourth with a hen.
!i. White Orpingtons he got a fourth for
cockerel Ills total of single entries was
nine. Mr Allison won the sweepstakes
prize at the recent Columbia show for
ft’e Knglfsh class, and the same at a
'ater show' In Darlington. S C.
No. 14 is Gold
en Wyandotte
<• o c k heading
first pen in
Children’s De
partment, own
ed by Mark E.
Johnson, Xo. 7ti
Bffecher street.
Atlanta.
No. 2 is firsT
•■xhihition Bar-
red Roek Coek
erel, owned by
Oeorpe R. Bar-
rv, .Tr Rome,
Proprietor of Farm at Buckheari
Makes Good Record—Cock
, and Cockerel First.
No. Jl is sec
ond White Leg
horn cockerel,
owned by Model
Poultry Farm,
Colbert, Ga.
Writers Representing Publications
Keep Crowds in Good Humor.
Some Old Visitors.
Stoddardville Poultry Farm. Pied
mont avenue and ivy road, half a miia
north of Buckhead, were big winners
in Partridge Plymouth Rocks, cap
turing eight prizes out of ten entries-’.
The winnings were first cock ami
first cockerel.
The last-named birds were nev r
beaten, having been shown threj
times this year. First and third hen
second and third pullets, and first ami
second pen were other StoddardvilU
Farm “pickings.”
The proprietor of the 'Stoddardvili»
Farm is William ,T. Stoddard, wh •
has been active in automobile racing
but he is now more interested in
raising fine chickens. Mr. Stoddard
says he is not trying to supply tho
trade, but is raising chicks for recre
ation.
He has a fine place near Buckheaii
with plenty of acreage for chicken
runs and lots of green stuff for tlm
chickens. There is also a world ol
water on the place and Mr. Stoddard
expects each year's brood to be bet
ter than the last.
Aside from the numerous poultry
exhibitors at the show, the poultry
Journal *< n have had quite a per- |
formam their own. Seated he- .
hind tai» » . they have distributed !
hundreds of copies of their publlca-
Hone to people Interested in poultry,
and have taken many aubscrlptfons.
The coming of these Jolly members
of the poultry journal world is al
ways hailed with pleasure In Atlan
ta With most of them the visit to
Atlanta is nothing new. They have
been coming for years Take C. B.
Williams, representing The Southern
Foultryman (Dallas), and The West-
iii Poultry Journal (Cedar Rapids),
tor instance. Mr. Williams is always
« conspicuous figure at local poultry
shows. Ruddy-complexloned and
wearing a broad-brimmed soft hat,
he Is easily Pfcked out as a poultry
expert
Then F. A. Goodlin, who is another
"old reliable." who is noted for his
smile and good humor. Let him tell
the story himself:
“I have been attending Atlanta
poultry shows six years, and travel
tegiilarly in ten States. It is always
t pleasure to tome back to Atlanta
and observe the big growth of the
itv, and to notice the quickened in-
i erest in poultry. The hen is a
mighty factor in our civilization.
Without her our cost of living would
indeed be a serious proposition. And,
bv the way. Bud, The Industrial Hen,
of Knoxville, is the best poultry
journal hereabouts.”
O. Tom Hallman, of Charlotte,
heard this and said. "With the excep
tion of The Reliable Poultry Jour
nal. of Quincy, Ill." Mr. Hallman is
mi exclusive breeder of single-comb
White Leghorns. He has been at
tending Atlanta poultry shows the
last five ^ ears.
C. M. Sanderson, of Birmingham.
i>*'>res#*ntin* r Practical Po» ,,M v (.Bir
mingham), is another of the writers
who tell the public about fowls. Mr.
Sanderson’s publication iw only in
ms second ye^.r. and yet it has gath-
- red a subs' ..-rial following, and as
serts that it »» one of the few poul
try papers which Issues a sworn
statement of circulation
One of the features of this paper
for November is a discussion <>f why
tn acre of "egg producers’’ is as
trood as an acre of cotton, corn, hay
or alfalfa
The Industrial lien is in its tenth
vear. A discussion of poultry dis
eases and the substitution of grams
other than corn for food are two
of the features of the Thanksgiving
number.
Xo. 12 is Buff
Orpington cock
h ending first
pen, owned by
Mrs. J. M. Hart,
College P a r k,
Ga.
liardt, Elberton
hibition White
Wyandotte pul
let, valued al
$1,000, owned
Xo. 9 is ‘Ty
Cobb,’ owned
by Mrs. P. T.
Calloway,
Wash ington,
Ga. Xo. 10 is
■Quality King.'
owned by Al-
drick Farm, Co
lumbus, 0. No.
15 is first Part
ridge Roek pul
let, owned by
G. W. Hughes,
Atlanta. No. 16
is first White
Roek cock own
ed by Mrs. W.
A. Sharp, Col
lege Park, Ga.
Total of 76 Points
Best Show Record
The Aid rich Poultry Farm, of Co
lumbus. Ohio, and Mr. L. P. Eber-
hardt, of Elberton, got a combined
score in Orpingtons of 76 points at
the Poultry Show, against a total for
all other competitors of 70 poipts, ac
cording to the figures of E. S. Aid-
rich.
The winnings showed first and sec-
i ond pen, first, second and third pui-
I let, first, third and fourth hen, sec
ond cock and thir dand fourth cock
erel.
One of the best exhibits in the
show is that of the Aldrich farm,
showing its ’’Quality King," a mag
nificent cock and sire of a pen of
beautiful pullets. “Quality King" is
one of the biggest and heaviest birds
in the show and his plumage is per
fect. He has drawn crowds wherever
he has been exhibited.
"Quality King" is an exhibition bird
only and was not in the competition
! for prizes at the Atlanta show. He
was first cockerel at the Madison
Square Garden show in New York in
1911, and was on display there in
January of this year. He cost his
owners $1,000 and is generally smp-
j posed to be the finest White Orping-
i ton living.
ris. of Atlanta
Big Variety Shown
By Mrs. J. M. Hart
Mrs. J. M. Hart, of College Paris,
had a magnificent entry of Wyan-
dottes, consisting of 114 birds an
eleven varieties. She also enter*
some Buff Orpingtons. Her wininus
wei^ as follows:
On Black Wyandottes. first, second,
third, fourth and fifth cockerel: first,
second, fourth, fifth hen: first, sec
ond. third, fourth and fifth pullet.
On Columbian Wyandotte, first, sec
ond, third,*fourth fifth hen; first, sec
ond. third, fourth pullet; first per.
On Silver Wyandotte, fifth cockere
first hen. second cook, third pen. On
Silver Penciled Wyandottes. firs
second, third, fourth pullet: first, sec
ond, third, fourth, hen; first cockere.
first pen. On Partridge Wyandotte-,
third cock, fourth and fifth pullet. On
White Wyandottes, third .and fourth
pen. On Buff Wyandottes, first, sec -
ond, third, fourth, fifth cock; firs .
second, third, fourth and fifth hen.
On Buff Orpingtons, first pen, fifi '
cockerel.
Rhode Ib1 a u <
White eoc k
owned by H. 1.
I>. Hugh e s
Htanville, (ia.
Buffs Wen Third.
In recent announcement of winner*
in single-comb Buff Orpingtons r
was stated that Norris & Bass, of At
lanta. got fourth pullet. The winnin-
w as third pullet.
891 Acres Are Sold
For $40,000 Total
No. 5 is first
Silver -Laced
Wyandotte pul
let, owned by
Pope M. Long.
Card ova, Ala
18 is Whic
Rock coek head
irig first pen.
owned tfy fat
ferson Far tn.
Fitzgerald, Ga
Farm Lands Bring Good Prices at
* Auction Sales—Old Estates
Are Subdivided.
George R. Berry. Jr., swept the boards
on Barred Kooks in the Children’s De
partment. winning first cock, first hen.
first cockerel, first pullet.
unable to <
lanta Show
No. 17 is second
prize Barred
Plymouth Roek
exhibition coek
erel. owned by
W. G. Norman.
Griffin, Ga. No.
< Jeorge R. Berry, of Rome, made three
entries in Barred Plymouth Rocks, win
ning on every entry. He also had on
exhibition tin* Bared Hock cock which
is pronounced by all a bird of phenom
enal barring. On account of delays, this
bird was received too late to compete.
Mr. Berry refused $100 for this fowl.
Ask Red Jones, of Fitzgerald, how he
came out at the Poultry Show and he
will feel for his cigars. Mr. Jones got
second cock In Barred Plymouth Kooks,
fourth hen fifth pullet-bred cockerel in
the main show and first pen. second
hen and second pullet in the children’s
department.
JACKSON. Dev 0 More than $40.-
aoo worth of farm lands were sold at
public sales this week, this being by
far the largest real estate transfer
the season. The property ranged in
price from $2*» per ncjv to $t»*> per acre.
The Beauchamp farm of more than 335
A poultryman frequently risks a good
deul on entering only one pen in a
show. He may get a first, second, third,
fourth, and. again, he may get noth
ing ami he obliged to explain to his
friends and customers, ot* course he
picks his best individual birds and thus
enters his best pen. hut his showing is
so small that it is apt to attract much
less notice than it would otherwise. At
least this is the effect on visitors, al
though it may not he on the judges.
\V E. Ellis, of Greenwood. S. C., pre
ferred to make only one pen entry. He
"staked his all" on a bunch of White
Plymouth Rocks and the result was that
he took first prize.
Good for Mr. Ellis, whose average is
thus 1.000!
Pumpkin Pies Win
Silver Pitcher Prize
Passenger' Pigeons
Found in Michigan
One of the best exhibits in Orping
tons was that of J. W. Fincher. Jr., of
Buchanan. Mr. Fincher drew second
hen and second pullet Black Orpingtons,
first and fourth hen. White Orping
tons. and first pen in the children’s
department.
Since Mr Fincher had only six en
tries in this department, he captured
all the prizes possible, the only failure
to place being a pen in the main ex
hibit.
lanta. Mr. Morris captured first
in «i competition of eleven.
He also had on exhibition a bea 1
tiful White Wyandotte pullet, which
is the last word in Wyandotte,
look convinces that she is in n
by herself. This bird is typical r '
Morris' ideal stram and is valued
$1,000.
ridge Wyandottes which were shown
here last year.
e of more than $50 per acre.
Among the propert> sold were 500
res «.f S. i: Glass estate lands for
Mini. 154 acres of Mrs. Mattie Lee
all's estate for $l*t» per acre. 102 acres
\\ \\ \\ caver's estate for $53 per
res arc. :;5 acres «>f Beauchamp lands
r iv i c than $18,500.
Mr?. W. A. Sharp, of College Park,
entered nine beautiful birds, and her
winnings were first and fourth cock,
first, third, fourth hen. Her cock
bird has been shown at three differ
ent shows, and has always taken first
prize. Mrs. Sharp is more than de
lighted at her showing. She is one
of the best women breeders of White
Rock? in the section.
When it conies to having classy
White Wyandottes, you will have to
tip >our hat to M F. Morris, of At-
WEST CHESTER, PA. I ><
Corn night" at Newtown
irange attracted u irgc g.t
f the grangers and the. f.
Resides the fine display of g*
• f corn there were on * \'
hoice truck ami orch; rd r**«
The feature of the .show v
ii*pla\ of pumpkin custard
«*>mpeiRion for tin- silver i> t<
h- ed h> W Sp< n. Han .
First Pen Prize
MacPherson. of Athens, is
ic congratulations of friends
ing the first pen prize for
mouth Rocks having only
The male head of this pen
r ot man.' cups at various
Eight Out of Ten Winners
G. W. Hughes, of Atlanta, certain
got his share of prizes on PartrJdg
Plymouth Rocks winning first r>uli r
second, third arwl fifth cockerel, secoh'
cock, second and fourth hen and th«'
pen. Mr Hughes won eight out of
entries.
Mi- B. II. Middlebrooks. of Yates-
villc. was among the out-of-town visit
ors At the Columbus show she won
first pen White Leghorns, second for
best pen of leghorns in show, second
Iit'ii of Barred Rocks in pen. second
cock, fourth hen and ijrst pen of Indian
Runner ducks. Alts Middlebrooks was
,.t the best displa>s of Silver
Wyandottes ever exhibited In lo-
fi tty shows was that of Pope M