The herald., 1898-01-27
CRACKED THEIR SHELLS
INCUBATORY EVOLUTION AT
THE HEN SHOW
The Experiences of Bedraggled Feath-
ers Under atrips of Gray Flannel.
Exhibits and Exhibitors

1t has somewhere been stated that a
was chickens. In the exhibit made at
the poultry show by A. w. Bessey of Or
ange there are two fine incubators. In
the incubators are over 600 eggs, or there
was that number until yesterday morn
ing, when they commenced to hatch
From that time on Industrious doesn't
express the way they kept at it.
The eggs, although each one was Sc
lected with great care were of various
kinds, including white and brown Leg
horns, Plymouth Rocks and Minorcas.
AS each emerged from the she'll a beak,
a pair of huge claws and few bedrag-
gled feathers fiopped toward the glass
front of the incubator and disappeared
from view into the nursery" below,
which is few degrees cooler. There
they were all allowed to stay until they
had their land legs on, so to speak.
About dusk 400 chicks were put into
the brooders and there they disported
themselves, as happy, round, soft, little
balls of black, brown or white feathers
as ever sought shelter under a nice,
warm mother made of strips of gray
flannel. Their eyes were as bright, their
little legs as sturdy, and they seemed to
have entered the world with as firm
determination to stay with it as is usual
at such tender age.
A handsome collection of English owl
and fan-tail pigeons is also exhibited by
Mr. Bessey. The former, Imported from
Birmingham, England, have aristocrat-
in heads hroo OF nd r;,,
or collar of beautiful iridescent feathers
about their necks. The fan-tails, on the
contrary, are pure white, and a coon In a
cake-walk hasn't half their naughty ar
rogance.
Some canaries, in cages, were added to
the exhibits yesterday, and they nearly
split their little throats trying to drown
the "cock-a-d doodle doos"-all in vain.
The chamber of commerce directors
visited the show in a body yesterday af-
ternoon, and all day long crowds of in
terested people vibrated between coops
and incubators-and the chickens
Matched on.
The list of exhibitors and their displays
IS as follows: DIR. A. w. Aldrdge. par
fridge cochins; L. NJ. Anderson. black
langshans; ]. l.. Argabrite, w. C. black
7OlISH, W. butItT, DdTTeu 1lSHOuln
rocks; G. NJ. Barnes. blue andalusians
Price Brown, brown leghorns: w. L.
Brown white leghorns; Mrs. NJ. J. Basley
white Plymouth rocks; NJ. j. Bunly. black
angshans; A. ID. Bradbeer, brown leg
horns; A. W. Bessey. buff rocks; Paul
Conil, Belgian hares; Mrs. II. j. Cunning
ham, silver spangled Hamburgs; AL Craw-
ford, black langshans and partridge
cochins; F. G. Conliff buff chochin ban
tap Silvpr Go hr iph pfa
Mary Case, Cornish Indian games: o. s.
Compton, white Wyandottes; III. C.
Droves, white and leghorns, black Minor
cas- and barred rocks; Chas. w. Droves
pigeons; J. w. England, mammoth light
Brahmas Mrs. w. d. Good light Brah-
mas; Jas. A. Heartwell, Indian games;
Irving o. Hally silver spangled Ham
burgs; C. C. Haigler, pigeons; G. r. Hem
inway, black langshans and houdans; Geo.
W. Hood, black Mnorcas; f. E. johnson,
white Plymouth rocks: A. Hoppe, bronze
turkeys, light and dark Brahmas. brown
eghorns and Pekn ducks; ]. j. Lindgren,
black langshans. white rocks and blue
Andalusians; II. d. Ley buff leghorns;
ID. S. Merwin. white leghorns and barred
rocks Edward Morris. dark Brahmas; w.
f. Mercer, brown leghorns; John d. Mer-
GER black cochins; G.. II. Manners, black
Minorcas Frank Mcclure, pigeons' f..
Earle Nash, white rocks; j. ID. Nasn.
barred rocks; A. e. Olshausen. buff coch-
ms: j. j. O'Toole. white leghorns; Phelps
Bros, pigeons; Leonard and Arthur Paul,
pigeons C. r. Paul. barred rocks and
brown leghorns' Samuel Rees. white
rocks; NJ. j. Russell. Muscovy ducks; XIV
erside poultry yards, black Minorcas, bum
Wyandottes and buff leghorns; F. A.
Smith, buff rocks; Mrs. G. r. Smith, sill
yer spangled Hamburgs: John c. Stedman,
light Brahmas; " Tresslar. bun rocks; X
M Teague barred and white rocks: F. w.
Twopood. white rocks: F. G. Taylor, blue
Andalusians; f. G. Taylor. barred rocks;
S. Tyler & Son, barred rocks, Mandarin
ducks and pigeons; J. Fl. Varley. pigeons;
Merrill Wilton, white rocks; DR.. r. ].
Withers. black langshans; Jared f. Waug-
ers. pigeons Jennie l.. Walsh pit games.
Tha 0hin Flood