Show NEW YORK POULTRY SHOW tito the right was wan Impi rAhe the sound was ddn more ill 1111 ll the of fiJal cat catalogue aligne of the new york poultry and pa pigeon I 1 xon association shows about 2300 2500 birds to have been on exhibition at madison square garden A few of them were for sale but most were p put u l rp lp P in this was one of the finest poultry shows ever given in america it was a satisfaction to ob observe caire that many in any american bred birds were e even harld handsomer Romer than sumo which had leen IM imported on entering the lie garden a sound utterly 3 indescribable met the ear iteva it was athe the crowing of hundreds of cocks the caw illand fiig d sullying sil lying of hundreds of lions hens the ticket seller said kwid it made his head ache pigeons coned ducks quack d anil and geese ho honl liked ced only the majestic tic turkeys kept divined silence among turkeys the splendid american bronze was easily first as to general purpose qualities somo some of the gobblers must have iveigh weighed ed not less than 40 pounds and were of course useless for breedin breeding 9 purposes good only to show liow how liff big a thank thanksgiving div ing turkey can bo be maide mado by care and feeding N nest ext in size to tho the bronze came tho the slate elate colored turkeys and tho liand somo white hollands dut but the bronze for meat maling always in this brief imperfect sketch ch of the birds at the show w we 0 mention chiefly those we think would be profitable to the tha farmer fanner and market breeder but there were some singularly sing beautiful specimens of tho the kinds that ornament a lawn or poultry louse house there were dazzlingly dazzling brilliant red and yellow golden plic is ants silver pheasants and till ring necked pheasants hundreds of pigeons of every shape size color attracted tile eye eve while overhead near the great glass dome of tho the garden a white dove circled round and round in its flight ahil whirring ring and cooing and making one think somehow of the ark and the wonderful poultry show noah must have had some of the full grown bantam chickens weighed no more than a pound but on oil the other hand e were also american asiatic cocks that weighed from 15 to 20 pounds some settle of them must have been quite its as heavy aia ai a good sized lamb of chickens alone there were 8 87 1 di different breeds looking at the breeds from the point of utility alono alone tho the casual observer would decide from the appearance of them all that if ho he wanted a big heavy fowl for meat production lie would choose tile light brahma the buff cochin or tho the partridge cochin the two list last named were ivere tho the handsomest of all the big birds however both of them strikingly beautiful you looked at one awhile then at the other and could not make up your mind wh which ch was most attractive in in appear appearance ance breeders bleeders Bre eders of both the buff and cochins declare they are each respectively the finest in existence the leghorns Leg horns aro are among the best layers er s particularly the white leghorns Leg horns borns as is well k known brt bet any one who sa saw the families of single combed leghorn spanish and minorca fowls would bo be impressed so disagreeably by the sight of the wretched combs drooping over the hens eyes that if he knew nothing of chickens beyond the looks of them he would never go in for those breeds tile the comb in ia many cases drooped over one of the hens bens eyes in such a way as to obscure the sight of that eye altogether while the tha poor bird was obliged to keep up an incessant bobbing wriggling gling movement to throw tho the thing to one side that was enough to give tho the beholder st vitus dance besides that these combs are dead sure enro to freeze in cold weather if they have half a chance at tho the same time the tha leghorn eggs eggs aro are large snow white beautiful and very fashionable and it is to bo be remembered that they come iiii in winter inter when eggs brin bring 0 tile highest price but the fowl for tho the farmer tho the general uge purpose fowl as it were is undoubtedly the beautiful barred plymouth rock in size the specimens at the now new york exhibition make no mean showing even alongside the giant brah mas and cochins while their eggs are arc abundant enough considering what excellent spring broilers the plymouth rocks make the eggs are exceed exceedingly 0 y handsome too with their rich color the shade of coffee with plenty of cream in it most striking in appearance were tile the famous blue bauo fowls too which are not blue at all but a fine dark gray among game breeds other than pit fowls tho the indian gamo game leads in size and beauty but oen een tho the indian game is in not so altogether great as tho the fancy poul try breeders bleeders bre eders who have it for sale represent it in their circulars to us ns loor outsiders tho meat is undoubtedly fine firm and juicy but thero there is such an enormous length of leg thero there that the casual observer concludes there is more leg than anything else and that the indian game could beat the champion in a running milo mile dash tho the capon class showed some magnificent meat bearing creatures with very meek looking heads head among geese of course tho the toulouse and embden aro are first in market value th the pekin peking and ducks were the largest and finest in appearance but tile alie cayuga q duck held its own very well veil too the peking and ducks were ivere quite as largo large as the geese caso familiar to us in our childhood every patent medicine for poultry that brain of man mail has as 3 et ct conceived was there incubators with little chicks jut just peeping out of the shell were in li plenty lenty each eloquent agent assured the green vis visitor tor that his particular kind of incubator Ili bator and brooder combined all good 0 qualities so BO far known it may bo be remarked in passing that most of tho the visitors being city people were green arc tn the display of eggs was a very beautiful one the eggs laid by particular breeds were put to themselves in handsome pyramids and tile tho different pra p ra placed together in it a group each labeled so that this the visitor could tell at a glance what breed of lien produced this or that assortment the pale bluish 1 green shade of the blue Lang e eggs contrasted hand handsomely bomely with t tho he brilli brilliant it white of the leghorn and the almost chocolate brown of tho the plymouth hocks |