The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-08
JUDGES AT WORK
Awarding Prizes at the State
Poultry Show.
Will Complete Their work
This Evening.
TO BREAK A RECORD.
Largest Attendance in History
of Association Promised.
Pigeon Exhibit This Year Is
Especially Fine.

The door receipts of the poultry show
now in full blast at the auditorium In
dictate that the attendance Will be In
keeping with the exhibit; the largest
in the history of the association. The
judges will finish their work late this
afternoon and expect to have the varied
colored ribbons in place on the cages OF
the prize winners in time for the open
ing this evening. The rapidity with
which the birds were judged at this
meeting forms a record as far as the as
ISOLATION is concerned.
This is due to the fact that four
judges have been at work early and late
since the show opened Monday and the
system. used by them in expediting the
handling and scoring Of the birds AL
several of the shows given in the past
the work of the judges was not COM
p1eted until late in the week and
patrons were only able to guess as TO
which of the birds were in the prize
winning class. The patrons tonight Will
be able to tell the prize winners at
glance and this will give them an OPP
portunity to either agree or disagree
with the judges as they see fit.
No small part of the exhibit are the
cages and crates containing upwards
of a thousand pigeons from all parts
and chimes, many of them being i'm
ported birds two pairs at least having
won prizes at the Crystal Palace show
in London, England. Charles Wagner
of Toronto, Canada, has as compll-
mentary exhibit two crates of pigeons
valued at 5000 each and there are
number of birds on exhibition valued
at 800 or more.
There has never been such an
exhibit of pigeons in the state and w.
K. Muir who is judging in this depart
ment is responsible for the statement
that the birds shown are of the finest
strains and in number compare favor
ably with the big eastern exhibits.
The pigeon department is the real
emporium of style even to the color
of the suits, brown predominating as
the color scheme just as 1t does with
the output of the fashionable dress
making and millinery parlors.
The display includes pigeons of all
classes ond kinds from the diminutive
African owls, smaller than quails to
the Runts of the display which are as
large as a medium sized chicken, with
a spread of wings of "A inches. Why
these immense specimens of the pigeon
kingdom are called Runts is more
than the Judge who has charge of the
display can explain, it is evident,
work.
The dude of the entire exhibit is
not a pigeon at all, but a Golden
pheasant from the pens of DR.. ]. w.
Primm of Lawrence, and his pen is
the center of attraction as he struts
back and forth seemingly aware of
the fact that he is the beauty of all
the assembled birds. There is every
color of the rainbow beautifully
blended in his full dress suit which
he is wearing on the occasion of his
first visit to the capital of the state.
To begin with he has the form of
the Adonis of the feathered kingdom
a fitting figure for his superb array of
gaudy decorations. The crest sur
mounting all is of orange gradually
blending to the neck of gold and a
breast plate of scarlet. His body is
covered with even layers of bronze
and brown feathers harmonizing with
the entire scheme of decoration. The
wings are of delicate shade of blue
while his trousers are of a notified
brown and as a climax to his array