Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-08
A CHICKEN SHOW.
A Number of Fanciers to
Arrive Today.
The Coming Meeting Of the
National Association.
Interesting Features of the Double
Exhibition.
Some of the Notable Chicken Men Who
Are to Be Here-Fine Thor
oughbreds to Be Ex-
hibited.

This evening the majority of the
eastern delegates to the annual meeting
of the National Poultry association will
arrive in our city over the Southern Pa
cific road. There will be about 100
prominent poultrymen in the first
party and tomorrow morning 100 more
delegates will arrive on the Pacific
Coast steamship from San Francisco
The meeting Of the national association
will open in Armory hall on Wednes-
day morning and from the entries re-
ceived there will be over 1000 thorough
bred chickens on exhibition here, one of
the largest and best exhibits yet made
by the association in the United States.
Secretary Goodwin, of the Los Angeles
County Poultry association, has had his
hands full for some time past In prepa-
ration for the event. There was largely
attended meeting of the local association
Saturday evening. There will be
public reception rendered the delegates
on Wednesday evening at Armory hall
by the chamber of commerce. An ad-
dress of welcome will be delivered by
Mayor Hazard, and all city and county
officials have been invited to be present.
Arrangements have also been made to
drive the delegates to different sections
of the city.
A committee was appointed to meet
the visiting members of the Ameri-
can Poultry association at the Southern
Pacific depot Oh M Monday 9Th 9th inst, at 10
p. M, and escort them to the Nadeau
hotel, which will be their headquarters.
A large number of entries were re-
ported, and it was decided to extend
the date for receiving them to February
9th.
The session of the American Poultry
association which will open here on
Wednesday, will last until February
18th, and will be their seventeenth an
nual meeting. The premiums which
will be awarded to exhibitors of thor
oughbred poultry will amount to $1,000,
while many additional prizes will be
given by concerns interested in the
poultry business, directly or indirectly.
The judges selected to pass ON the
exhibit are Mr.. HI. A. Bridges, of Colum-
bus, Ohio, and Mr. George 0. Brown, of
Baltimore, Md. These two gentlemen
are known to every poultry breeder OF
any prominence on the American conti-
nent, and they are today considered as
two of the best judges of thoroughbred
poultry to be found anywhere on the
globe. Mr.. Bridges is already in the
city and Mr.. Brown will arrive here this
evening.
In addition to very large and COM
prehensive display of poultry, there will
also be quite an exhibit of pigeons, and
exhibitions will be arranged to illustrate
the powers and trained intelligence OF
the carrier pigeons, the members OF
the Pacific Coast Pigeon association hav-
ing signified their intention to take
prominent part in this feature Of the ex-
hibit. Another point about the coming
show will be varied exhibit of
patent incubators, nearly all of the
firms manufacturing these "chicken
producers" having announced that they
would have incubators on view con-
stantly Matching out chickens by means
of hot air or steam heat.
The president OF the American Poul-
trV association.