New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-05
GROWING, CACKLING IND QUACKING.
FOWLS OF THE EARTH, WATER AND AIR MAKE
A GREAT FUSS IN THE MADISON
SQUARE GARDEN

II was daybreak all day at the Madison Square
Garden Yesterday Cocks crOwed In every key, and a
grand diapasOn of dscOrdant sound welled from 1oo
coops Os,rlches lifted their ugly heads on pY'hon
necks and looked about amazedly, while the emu ana
the cassowary strongly hinted that the disturbance
was Just q little than they were accustomed TO-
The tenor of the bantams, the heavy bass Oh ING
brahmas and the baritone OF the dorkingS' pN"ou.i
rocks and India games" failed to mingle smoolhiy
with the quacking Of ducks, the pOtiach Vi eui"0'
and the hiss Of HE gandcr.
These things were signs of the big SHOW OF inc Nc"
York Poultry and Pigeon Association that Is " W
opened at 10 O'Clock this morning. the ilhe't anu
largest exhibition of fowls Of the earth water anu "'
ever held in the United States. SIX huhureu 'ia''o
are represented by $500 entries over S4'ooo III cas-,
prizes Will be distributed. The rosettes bear 'h'
monogram of the association, cut in nickel lhelo
are 10 be l2O breeding yards with five fowls III each'
cock and four hens. will swim III Iahc anu
pigeons will bill and coo under the caves Vi 'o' =
naIacc Francis T. UnderhiIls entire collection OF
swimming and wadng bids will be on snow; nl"h''o
the largest and most complete display OF orhaic""'
water fowl ever here at one 'lihe' r,ou
Mathers water fowl from Cold Spring ilarbor VIII DC
among them.
Among the curiosues are four coops of buif cochms
lust arrived from Liverpool. and breeding yau OIL
buff leghorns. valued at $1,000.
At O'Clock hen in a coop Of houdans laid an egg
and raised a great fuss with her proud cackhng'
Miss Iselin's light brahmas and Mrs Delaney
Kane's houdans expect to take blue rosettes' MIS-
schiefelin's golden pheaSants Will have "aho'c''
SO will the blue langshans from China
The phoenix long-talls. with their eight iee' oi
feathers will be admired. And how the Uan'aihs
will strut There are $50 Of Them
Tom Ware a queer character in Georgia. mas SEM
a solitary game cock 900 miles and writes: ~ IL
ANYBODY don't believe he is game let em throw lhel
game down in the pen, and let me throw mihe' anu
I'm willin' to take the chances" 49,, ~,
Down in the basement there are dozen kinus VI
ncubators, each guaranteed TO Knock OUT any M t
ever sat on an egg some of them can hatch cnichcs
in eighteen days Ordinarily hen wants Wci'y UNI
These the judges: u pa,1
Poultry-Newt0n Adams. Utica, y. y; J. H. Bali.
win Orange y. j.; Henry >. Ball, shrewsbury, MaSsi
George o. Brown Baltimore, Nd. sharp butteIIaeiu,
Windsor Canada Dr. W. \. Conklin. New OH SItf >
Irving Crocker, seneca Falls, y. y; George DNiS'
MOntpecr, Vt: john Il. Dehl beverley, ~ j., d; ~
DreVenst adt JameSburg, " j. James h. liaue{, "
lev Stream Junction. l.. l.. L. G.. JARVIS, iOIt oldnel
canada; l. X. Fetch. Natck Mass J"hh fllhcii' f,sO
orange " j.: j. ID. Nevius Philadelphia, fenh' ~ y
Newell Lisbon Falls Me: =. II. Scuddc' rlch i'iu'
/ l.: F. L. sewell. Evanston. H.: o. h: sharp -, Ne
mort \ y: A. L. stevens, Wellesley, Mass td"am
H. Thomson, Armenia, y. y. ,,.,,,
Pigeons. {. Long, jr. New York Iity: N ii
J. stanton Jersey City. y. j.. D. e. Newell Nc" uln
H. V Crawford. Montclair, y. j.; F. C. Beigci' flush
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