The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17
DIspAToH RICHMOND Va SUNDAY DEoEnBER IL 1911
P OULTRY SHOW
HELD IN NORFOLK
Comments by Richmond Elk
hibitor-city by the Sea Did
Handsome. Thing.
BY wALTER Q. sCHAAF.

While as Richmond booster
naturally hated to SEQ the annual show
OF the Virginia Poultry Association
go to Norfolk, still after having tried
every way to show our homo folks the
wisdom OF not letting this annual ar
fair get away, and not succeeding. 1t
is only fair to give Norfolk the credit
duo her.
TO start with. Norfolk offered tho
free use OF the immense Progress
building and had 1t lighted up with
electricity on both floors. BY having
plenty Of room tho show was singly
TERED, and each bird cooped sepa-
rately. This feature was tho main
cause of us having show that looked
like the big shows of Baltimore, Phil,
adelphia, Atlanta and scores of other
cities where they allow their citizens
the use of the armories every year.
In Norfolk, being a much smaller town
than Richmond, you could better SEQ
that poultry show brings lots OF
visitors. At the Atlantic Hotel there
We're not less than fifty-two poultry
breeders registered from different parts
Of Virginia and the Carolinas. In help
ing encourage the poultry breeders.
you are doing moro than simply bring
Ing several hundred guests to your city
to spend q week or more
BENEFITS of Show.
"a pOullry bHO" COuuuCleu On q
scale always starts now breeders. Now
oven acknowledging the fact, that the
greater number Of these new breeders
will be but small producers, still they
add In their small way to the wealth
of their surrounding country. We will
take for granted. only twenty new
ones. start from the Norfolk show. and
Furthermore say all twenty will be
only small breeders, with fifteen or
twenty hens in their backwards Each
breeder Will during a year. produce at
least $50 worth of chicks or table eggs
clear over his expenses. This would
make $500 added wealth that has been
| produced from nothing, so to speak.
the same as the farmer produces wheat
or cattle. But this Is not the end. Out
of these twenty there will BIO one or
more that will develop the business
hang Of the game and become pro-
ducers to the extent of several hun
| dred dollars yearly, up to a thousand
| dollars or more.
Prizes Awarded.
AS the show only closed last night
1 am not able to give full account
| OF the prizes and cups, which, by the
way. were way ahead OF any show we
| have ever held, both In numbers OF
cups and elaborate designs of same.
| The cup offered by the Atlantic Hotel
was one of the prettiest designs ever
seen In this section and measured
three feet from the table, on which It
stood. This cup was captured by
Mr. Funston, of Lorraine. Va, with his
| Wyandottes. the judges deciding that
his pen was the highest scoring pen In
the show. A. ]. Warren won the
Spratts's solid silver cup on the high
est scoring single bird In the shor
| with his beautiful hen. White Dot "a
of the finest specimens of White Lee;
horns. that has been my privilege /,
look upon in many day. Mr.. Jones
by winning tho Southern Planters our
again at this show. 1t becomes his Anal
property. Burch. the Brown LeghorI
| king. of Richmond. turned the same
trick with the Leghorn cup. walter
! Schaaf, by winning the Presidents cuI
two years in succession. becomes the
final holder OF this trophy, which he
won with his Orpingtons Little
Georgia Guvernator won so many cups
with his many varieties that a mem
Dor who just came up from Norfolk
said something about chartering a tug
boat to bring them UP to Richmond.