Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-04
G.. H. SMITHS
CHICKENS WIN
Fowls Get Prizes at Mon
mouth Poultry Club.

G.. Howard Smith is the proud
owner of a number of prize-winning
fowls, which he harbors with skill
and care at his home In this city.
During the past week four OF his
stock took prizes at the Monmouth
Poultry Club exhibition at Red
Bank. He secured prizes as fol-
lows. Cock, second prize; cocker
Ell. second prize; hen, third prize;
pullet, four prize. This was an ex-
| ceiIent showing when 1T is consid-
cred that there was very strong
competition at hand.
To the average 1ayman the care
and skill necessary in the prepara-
ton Of fowls to bring home prizes
is not Known. 1t is the opinion In
many cases that all that is necessary
is to feed them well. They must be
fed In a certain way and with GER
tain products, they must be handled
in a certain manner and cleaned by
a scientific process in order to make
them loom up properly at poultry
shows.
An EVENING NEWS representa-
tive was extended an invitation to
visit the poultry yards of c.. How
4 oli4th anu WltIlt5G Lille pIGpdt-
alton of single comb white Orping-
tons for the Monmouth Poultry Club
show at lied Bank. In preparing
white fowls for the show pen, the
building in which the work is done
has exhibition coops placed around
the wall in which the birds are plac-
ed about two weeks before the
show. Each coop is two feet square
a rd +hfr+r innI.Ao hsol, - ~a.ao-.EI
modates but one bird. The fowls are
led only on certain kinds OF hard
grain and given all the milk they
can drink. Each bird is taken out of
the coop several times each day and
handled as much as possible in or
der that it will not take fright when |
being exhibited or examined by the
judges.
The fact of a bird being we'll fed
and groomed, showing splendid com
dition, while absolutely necessary
and essential in competing for the
prizes at our poultry shows, is not
always sufficient in a tight place
where two specimens are about
equal in merit and condition. This
is where proper training of the show
specimens will often determine the
result and the bird with this train
ing seems to know when it is touch
ed by the judges stick, that it Is to
pose and look It's pr~ettiest.
All white fowls intended for ex-
hibition must be thoroughly wash.
ed. The temperature of the room
must be from so to 100 degrees
y arm and great care must be taken
that no dust be allowed to be raised.
The bird is first put in tub No. l..
containing warm water, the featf-
Iers being thoroughly wetted in
every particle of the plumage, al
ways rubbing with the plumage so
as not to break any feathers. After
b feathers are all wet remove 1t to
tub No. 2, and using Ivory soap.
thoroughly soap the bird and brush
with a good bristle brush. Then re-
move To tub No. 8, containing clean
warm water and rinse well to get as
much soap out OF the feathers as
possible. Then remove to tub No. a.
containing cold water and again
rinse we'll. The fowl is then rernov-
ed to tub No. 5 in which ID cold
water to which a little bluing has
been added: the same as preparing
bluing water for white linen ~wear.
The bird is thereafter removed to a
a table and the surplus water taken
on with a sponge and Turkish towel.
Then by of large palm leaf
rams, tWo persons continually fan
the bird until all Of the feathers are
dried. The fowl Is then given a
two-grain capsule of quinine to pre-
vent 1T from taking cold. The tenn
| pGrature of the room is liant mn ~,