The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-26
By Opening of Big Show Sp-
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POULTRY SHOW ID BE BIB
H. J. Mccafferty Is Superintendent for Thls Department-Wlll Offer Many PrIzes-Exhlbit From
 Montgomery.

One of the great advantages which vis- will be the right to travel from any part of the Birmingham district to the fair grounds on the electric cars for one fare. by the agreement made with the board of aldermen. the ordinance for providing for transfers on all the street cars goes into effect on September 20, so that by the time the fair comes around 1t will only cost the. visitor vents to reach the fair grounds, and another cents to return to his home. This IS an item of so much importance that had it not been for the agreement reached between the Birming- ham Railway, Light and Power company and the city government, 1t was the in- tentiou of the fair management to urge tho street car company to issue 5-eent fare to all persons visiting the exhibition at Smith park this fall.
 II. J. McCanerty, member of the ex- ecutive committee of the Southern Poultry association. has been appointed superin- tendent of the poultry department. and will begin active work at once arranging for thoroughly representative poultry exhibit. Mir. McCafferty believes that up- wards of 20O0 chickens of different breeds will be on exhibition. A uniform system of exhibition coops will be adopted. which will make the poultry a very attractive feature of the fair. The classes and ar engagements will be in accordance with the rules of the poultry association, and the prizes will be sufficiently attractive to bring in the finest breeds that are owned In Alabama.
 Word comes from Fulton s. White superintendent of the agricultural de- partment, who is now attending the fair at Des Moines. Ia, that the great state fair there is even more extensive and better attended than in any previous year. This is the forty-eighth annual session of the Iowa state fair. The grounds and plans are fine and extensive, the machinery department alone embrac- ing sixty acres. This of course includes tho agricultural machinery, which Is shown in the open. There are TOO head of cattle on exhibition and over 1000 head of hogs. Every other department of the ldlT ID SQudlly eAtSASlNo, diiO tiio tendance amounts to from 25.oO0 to 4o.- 900 people a day
 The management of the Alabama state fair is very busy at present endeavoring to secure representative exhibits from Montgomery and other cities of the state This is a thing which has never been done at any Birmingham fair. and being a new department. 1t Is confronted with many obstacles and difficulties. In the Montgomery Sunday Journal appeared an interesting interview with Chappell Cory in which he points out the advantages which Montgomery will derive from ex- hfbiting her manufactures and raw ma- terials at the state fair. A number of leading business men of Montgomery have become interested in the subject, and it is now believed by MT. MacKnight that a Montgomery exhibit will be se- cured. It is thought that If Montgomery decides to make an exhibit, Mobile, Selma, Anniston and other large towns of the state will do likewise, recogniz- ing the great advantages which must accrue from the advertising that such and exhibit will give them. Favorable reports are coming in from all sections of the state, but owing to the drouth the agricultural exhibit may not be so fine as the management expected and hoped.