The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10
FUR AND FEATHERS.
A Four Days Show
in Mechanics Hall
This Week.
THERE ARE MANY GOOD ENTRIES.
Exhibits Will Be Made
From All Parts of the
Country and England.
THERE ARE MANY GOOD ENTRIES.

| The entries, for the poultry snow OIL
the Worcester Fur and Feather club,
to be held in Mechanics and Washburn
halls, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of this week, are all in,
and include some of the best-known
breeders of fine poultry and birds in
! the country. number of fowls Will
be exhibited by John Purdy of Church
| Gesley, England who is in America
| for the poultry season, with large
number of fine birds. Among the many
Worceste exhibitors will be Philip w.
Moen. whose Ard Naclachan farm at
| Shrewsbury is the home of many of
| the finest fowls in America. Some idea
of the classes of exhibits and the eX-
| hibitorS may be learned from the en-
| tries, which were announced yesterday.
In the poultry show there will be a
| large exhibit of the Light Brahmas
| from j. R. Heating of Westboro, the
| Highland poultry farm. All the vari-
cites of Brahmas will be shown, almost
without exception, and will make one
| of the features of the show. j. F.
| Cooper, L. c. Pierce and R. H. Vaughn
| of Worcester will have coopS of Part
ridge Cochins, and there will be
number of coops of Black Cochins and
White Cochins. Barred, White and
Buff Plymouth Rock fowls will be
shown in large numbers, and the Wy
| andotte class will be one of the largest
of the show. DR.. A. A. Rowland DR..
F. H. Rowland, ]. F. Cooper and DR..
John Flagg of Worcester will exhibit
in this class. There will also be many
varieties of Wyandottes from c. S.
Matteson of Salisbury, VT, who is
the finest breeder of the class in the
country A. S. Lowell and ]. F. Cooper
of Worcester are to exhibit coops of
Rhode Island Reds and there will be
| many out-of-town exhibitors in this
class.
In the Leghorn class the Ard Nacla-
chan farm will show several specimens
Of the new Buff LeghOrn. Several ex-
hibits of Black Minorcas will be placed,
| and nearly every variety of Polish fowls
known to fanciers will be exhibited.
Among the exhibitors of Hamburg
fowls will be Herbert. NJ. Howes of the
Boston Globe and Joseph Purdy of
| Leeds, England. Houtons, a French
| class, and DorkingS, a purely English
class, will be shown.
In the game fowls all classes will be
| represented, mostly by out-of-town ex-
| hibitors Mr.. Purdy will have large
exhibit of India games and P. w. Moen
| Sumatra games w. H. Fitton of Wor-
| cester will have an exhibit of Game
| Bantams. A coop of the Partridge
| Cochin Bantams will be exhibited for
| the first time in any show, and some
Andalusian Bantams, the first ever
| shown anywhere, will be exhibited
| There will be large display of water
fowl by some of the best-known poul-
| try men in the country, and the ex-
| hibit of turkeys will show some rare
| birds.
| The exhibitors in the pigeon and pet
| classes are of the largest Many Vari-
cites of pouters will be shown, some Of
| them being handsome birds, standing
| 10 or 20 inches high. Pigmy pouters,
| birds only one-half the size of the
| regular pouter, will be shown. The
largest exhibit in the pigeon show will
| be the Tumblers, coming from all parts
| of the country and in all varieties
| Inside or Parlor Tumblers will be
| shown. These birds do not fly very
| high, and when alarmed turn somer-
! saults on the ground, and not in the
air, like the other Tumbler. Jacoblns
VIII &c shown in large varieties, as
| will Owl pigeons
The show of fan-tails will be one Of
| the strong points of the exhibition, and
| there will be several local exhibitors
| IN this class. An odd bird will be the
| Russian Trnmpeter, which has a large
| growth of feathers on the legs, and is
double crested giving it the appear
| ance of being dressed in Russian uni
FORM Rare varieties Of archangels in
nght and dark brown will be shown
| These birds are the most beautiful of
| pigeons, with almost irridescent plum
| age.
A remarkable entry will be from A
| II. Dresser of Newton, who will show
| more than forty varieties of Dragon
| pigeons. There will also be large ex-
J hibits of show homers and flying hom-
ers, most of the latter class coming
from Worcester and Boston. Several
of the old variety of Duchess pigeons.
| now almost extinct, will be shown bv
| II. j. Reed of Worcester. There will
be several large displays of 10 birds in
cage and of varieties.
Most of the cats are coming from
| out of town. One famous feline is "The
Duke of Wellington" owned by Miss
| Moeran of New York. This cat has
| taken more prizes than any other at the
New York shows. There will be a.
| large number of guinea pigs of all
varieties, the most interesting of them
| being the Augouta, an English variety
! resembling the Belgian hare.
| In the way of cage birds, the Nor
| wich canaries. Cheyenne fed red cana
| ries, the inches and number of trop-
| ical and domestic cardinals will be ex-
| hibited. George H. Holden & Co. of
! Boston will have a large exhibit of
tropical birds, including parrots and
other brilliant plumage birds This