The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-14
CHICKENS IN FAVOR
POULTRY SHOW BIG FEATURE
OF THE FAIR.
THOUSANDS VIEWED THEM.
EXPERT OWENS COMPLETED HIS
LIST OF AWARDS.

The Belmont Farm With Its Big DIS
play Leads Among the Winners,
with the RavenswOod secOnd-Mr'
w. j. DeRenne and other Savan-
nahians Get "Reminiscences ems
VIII Remain on Exhibition Until
the End of the Week-Thousand DIS
Admired the Feathered Aristo-
Graf. Yesterday and Declared the
Exhibition the Best Ever Seen in
savannah and the state.
OF all the features of the Fair yes
terday none exceeded in merit or at
tractiveness the poultry show. As a
feature of the Fair 1t was slow in de-
veloping, but when it arrived it was
all right. Never before was such a
magnificent display of feathered BIZ
peds seen in Savannah. Not only the
city people, but visitors from the coun-
try, from other cities and from adj
Joining states declared that it excelled
anything in their experience. Mr.. P.
]. Berckmans, president of the State
Horticultural Society, who has prob
ably attended more fairs in this and
other states than any other man in
Georgia, declared that it was the best
he had ever seen.
The people who took in the horse
show and the races and failed to take
in the poultry show, missed one OF the
sights of the Fair. Still it is doubtful
if any more people could have gotten
to see the chickens yesterday. From
the time the crowds began arriving in
the morning until after nightfall and
roosting time had passed, the poultry
building was crowded with delighted
slght-seers.
Never Saw Such Chickens.
Il never knew before that such
chickens could be grown anywhere, let
alone in Georgia." said one gentleman.
This show is a revelation to me, and
l have no doubt it is to hundreds of
others"
This show will teach the best les
son of any exhibit of the Fair" said
another. 1T will arouse an interest
in poultry raising in Georgia that will
be far reaching. Farmers and city
people alike will begin TO realize that
a poultry yard may be a thing of
pleasure as well as of profit"
DO you know" said a Savannahian,
that nearly all the chickens and eggs
which we eat in Savannah are raised
in Tennessee. They are shipped from
500 to 600 miles to reach our market.
Why cannot our own farmers enjoy the
profits of this business and improve
their own larders as we'll"
Many such expressions were heard.
In fact. every observer had some com
ment of surprise and wonderment at
the beauty of the displays, and the
magnificence of the specimens eXhib-
tied.
1t is worthy of comment that the
bulk of the displays were Georgia bred
birds. Fully half the exhibits were
from the Belmont farm at Smyrna,
Ga, and as the awards of the EXPERT
show the birds from this farm led I'm
excellence as we'll as in numbers. The
Belmonts are said TO have the largest
poultry farm in the South. That chick
en- raising is a business with this COM
pany and a paying one, is evident
from the fact that their plant is esti-
mated to be worth in the neighborhood
of 500. 900.
The Judges Busy Day.
1t was a busy day with Expert D.
NJ. Owens and superintendent B. H.
Baker. Almost every fowl in the sew
eral hundred coops was taken and a
memoranda made of it's condition and
the class to which il was entitled to
belong. This was not a mere super
fetal inspection by the eye alone, but
il was necessary that each fowl should
show the proper markings of his tribe,