Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-14
PRIZE BIRDS ARE
SELF IMPORTANT
ARlST0CRATlC POULTRY FEELS
PROUD OF ITSELF
Fancy Chickens Do Not object to an
Occasional Meal From Womsns
Hat-A Pearl Pin Is
Swallowed

anything to beat that bird?" said an
old man with gray whiskers and merry
blue eyes, who had come in from his
ranch in the country with his wife to
see the poultry show. THAT fellow
there seems to know that he's got a
blue ribbon hanging on his cage; you
can tell it from the way he struts
around and crows as If he owned the
earth.''
The old man was not far from right,
for the coop in front of which he stood
was that which had been allotted to
the buff Orpington cock belonging to
Arthur Let's and no other than the
famous prize winner from st. Louis.
The cock seemed to be bent on in
forming all visitors to the show yes
terday that he was a good one, and
according to his judgment the only one.
If the birds had disturbed the sweet
peace of the auditorium on former
days, they succeeded in accomplishing
their task doubly well yesterday, and
every one who saw them would have
declared that they knew all about the
ribbons which were hanging on their
coops and the significance attached to
them.
Judges Hard Task
They knew, too, what a hard task
they had set for the judges who had
been compelled to decide the various
good points of the different fowls, and
the many weary hours man had danced
attendance upon them.
The fowls have been everything in
this show and mere people have been
secondary objects. The birds have
taken possession of everything in
sight, even including some of the
jewels of their fair admirers.
That chickens have a multitude of
these has been demonstrated this week.
Count Jaro Won Schmidt and party
of friends visited the show a night or
two ago, and one of the party CHANGED
to have a bunch of red cherries on her
hat. The birds naturally thought them
too good to be let pass and by the time
she left the hall there was not a cherry
visible.
Mrs. L. d. Hadley of San Gabriel,
who is chicken fancier and has very
fine exhibit of fowls, was standing ad-
miringly in front of one of the coeps
in which her chickens are confined,
when one especially fine specimen saw
something about it's owners person
which attracted it's attention. and just
as she was telling him what "beaufil'
bird ne was, she missed a small pearl
pin which had been sticking in her
dress. The bird had swallowed it and
will probably be operated on as pun
ishment.
Birds Somewhat Jealous
Arthur Let's bird has not got things
all his own way down at the show, for
there are several other birds who pro-
test that they are just as good as he.
even though there are some who do not
think so.
Most of these belong to Mrs. o. H.
Burbridge, who every one says has
been even more necessary to the sue
cess of the show than the chickens.
There are some of the members of the
association who have birds entered
that feel very much like apologizing
to the enterprising young secretary if
they happen to take prize away from
her, and there is hardly a chicken
which would not crow louder when the
owner of the Orpington ranch comes
near than at any other time.
x,,ho he
housed there are four specimens be-
longing to Mrs. e. r. Meserve which
are almost bursting with pride, and the
general vote is that they may well be,
fer out of only four entered by her she
carried away four prizes, and these
from a ranch that is not yet two years
old.
Fowls From North
The fowls belonging to Percy Ward