Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-12-19
W4AT lie POULTRY sHoW ACCOMPLISHED

An an educational force and quckenng influence for the
and section the value of the Southern In
Poultry show which to close last evening
be overepad Two vital lessons has driven home
to the minds of Georgia people, has taught them what their
poultry industry has already done and what vastly more
important greater things accomplish in the future
Simply exhibition of finely bred fowls, this show has
been wonderfully impressive has never been equaed N
seldom been surpassed anywhere in the
To assemble under roof than four thousand
BIRDS representing sixyv different varieties truly noa
achievement days the auditorium thronged
with visitors from Among Them fan
professionally interested the art and science of poultry
majority of the visitors from the general
pubcs rank and They enjoyed what they They
proted by they through the daily lectures of pou
experts thus there has been knded popular appre
pleasure and the practical good which poultry
raising holds for the individual the household and for the
sections larger interests.
lies the ncacuable value of the Southern Inter-
national Poultry show behind it For when
people whole awakened what has been done and
in the poultry Industry Georgia will
longer spend millions of dollars annually IN buying cckens
eggs points but will become exporter OF this
important food item.
There can be no doubt that awakening already begun
prizes offered the show last week were
Georgia southern breeders In the city well as
districts people nteigenty study
ing craft the business of poultry culture Happily we
getting the this field requires accurate
knowledge patient attentive labor In proportion this
realized poultry raising will really profitable The
yesterday would have been abundanty worth
while had it nothing than impress this fact its
visitors.
There part America or of the entire world adj
mraby suited to the breeding poultry than Georgia and her
neighbor Mrs L. Graves of Southboro Mass one
judges show and national authority on the
subject declared in this connection:
This fine birds and
sr the WEALTH Of an Hpe poultry Section
s ~atisT p is Seter adapted the
other part of union
This is the judgment of an expert Climate determn-
oJe hut in tho
of production The south naturally poultry of this
continent. 1t should be made in fact
The people Georgia spending millions of dollars
year parts country for their poultry and pou
try products They produce only about forty cent of what
they
amazing and altogether anomalous condition that
directly upon every household in the commonwealth 1t
should people the well in the country
great they needssy sustaining and to the fertile
neglected The backwards of cities
of farms should be turned to productive
that become sellers instead of buyers in the
nations market
International Poultry show has opened and
pointed the way to new prosperity for this and
section 1t the ougrowh the Southern international Pou
try association exhibition of that organization
from popular standpoint has than
justified undertaking There is public demand that these
regular annual events and already plans being
considered for the 1912 1t be made
the just closed and be- for the leaders
poultry breeding throughout the nation have become definitely
which the Southern In
ternational Poultry association has launched
u.s. therefore begin promptly preparations for the
1912 show aiming make exhibition of five thousand birds
and also in which the keynote will be quality