The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-12-21
POULTRY SHOW.
Judging of Pigeons Yesterdays Feature
of the Annual Exhibit.

| NEW YORK, Dec. I.-Regarding eggs
this present show OF the New York Poul
/ try. Pigeon and Pet Stock Association Il
| the first at which there has not been Z
competition for the best assorted displays
The egg producers would rather sell then
at lve cents each than to hold them fol
a blue ribbon-the cash IN the hand being
more regarded than q prize in the bush
So said Captain Grlffing. who runs the
Maine ice schooners 10 Shelter Island and
has kept Plymouth Rocks for fifty years
or ever since he has had a vote
I've been reading about consignment
Of English eggs to the New York market
but our poultrymen have no need to worry
over that competition" declared the old
salt "rwo-thirds Of the eggs sold in Lon
dom are shipped from the Continent, the
chief reason being that the British egg is
not so reliable, or in other words, the pur-
chaser is not so sure of getting nothing
but fresh~ eggs. The leading dealers dc
not touch British eggs at all. for they are
tested 80 perfunctorily at the country de-
DOTS that too many come to the market
bad. In small lots selected British eggs
bring the most money I'm the fine trade,
hut the vendors by the long hundred-120--
depend chiefly on Franco and Denmark.
No bad eggs pass the testing stations for
shipment I'm those countries. Calais browns
bring the most money. Any eggs shipped
here are those the Britishers don't want,
besides. white eggs are I'm most demand in
New York"
Pigeon exhibitors wound up their com
petitions, the keenest rivalry being in
Jacobins 2iO being Gagged and many priced
al $50 to 500. In cocks, Bancroft Winsor,
Of Ieairhaven, Mass, won tho blue in BlaclS
Jacobins, and G. A. Noehler Manhattan
veteran amateur, with lofts at Richmond
Hill, took the same honors In young cocks
while j., w. Hyde, jr. of Hackensack. won
in hens and young hens. Pigeon fanciers
do not limit themselves to one color in n
breed. for as with English toy spaniels the
birds do not always have young true to
parent colors. Red Jacobins found Hyde II
winner In both classes of old birds, while
Atwood B. Hosl1ins, of Philadelphia, won
in young cocks, and Frank w Gorse, OF
Boston, in young hens. Hosklns took three
blues with Yellows. but Ed @. Erby, Ian
caster, Pa. beat the field in young hens
In White Jacobins, on the contrary, Hos
kins had only the blue for old cocks. the
three others going to the Hyde entries.
The exhibitors named split up the blues
about evenly in the eigh classes for stock
or any color Jacobins, which included
some of the prettiest marked birds
There were 2lS tumhlers. including all
from the short face to the dainty parlor
birds. Henry a. Jaeger, of Baltimore,
took nine firsts, and others who corralled
several blue ribbons for tumblers were
Meyer & Helm. Reading, Pa; Walter
A. Hersey, Boston; John A. Herster,
II. A. Snyder and l.. g.. Brockowsky,
Of Reading; Richard Whitney. Dorchester,
Mass. and c. II. Coffin. Newark. Win
ners Of many classes in Oriental Frills
and Turbets were Henry Justly, ]. II.
Bauer J. H. Snyder and DIR. C. II. A.
Meyer, all of Baltimore, who made a rec
ord showing for quality in the aggregate,
and Ernest Ebisch, Erie. Pa; W. Harry
orr, Reading, Pa, and L. f. Carson,
Birdsboro Pa