Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-02
POULTRY SHOW
To END TONIGHT
Georgia Association Is Already
Planning for Bigger Ex-
hibition Next Year.

This is the last day of the ninth
annual show of the Georgia Poultry
association. The classiest display of
fowls the South has ever known will
end tonight.
Tomorrow morning Superintendent
Frank Coll and his helpers will tackle
the tremendous job of shipping out the
fowls. 1t will take all day to get them
cut of the exhibition coops and back
into the shipping coops. And not be-
fore Monday morning will the wreck
ing crew begin the task of taking down
the coops and Of putting them away
until next season.
Those who attend the show today
can count on it confidentially that the
exhibition will remain intact until 10
o'clock tonight. No exhibitors will be
allowed to take their birds from the
pens until then. The complete show
will remain just as it is until the lights
go out.
Has Been Notable Show.
Looking back over tit has been u
grand show. 1t is doubtful if in the
variety of birds shown it has ever
been equalled in Dixie. Every bird the
ordinary man ever heard OF and a
lot most everybody never heard of, has
been shown. More than that, they rep
resent all sections Of the county-the
East, the North, the South and the
Southwest
In the class of birds shown the exhi
bition has been without equal. OF
course some classes were stronger than
others. The Orpingtons topped the list
This exhibit has been the best Orping
ton show that the South has ever
known 1t is unlikely that in genuine
class there has ever been such show
ing of Orpingtons in any city Atlantas
sise or anywhere near it.
Another notable feature of the show
has been the range, variety and excel
lence of the special exhibition stock
The fancy stuff shown by Briarclif
farm is vastly above the average. 1t
is unlikely that any one owner in the
South owns so much or so valuable
stock as Mr. Gambler.
G. P. A. Did Well.
The Georgia Poultry association de-
serves unlimited credit FOR their show
The handicaps under which it was Civ
On will never be known except to the
few on the inside. The question Of
money was not involved. There was
always plenty OF money il sight to
run it, But everything else was against
ii and there was opposition-Open and
secret-that made matters difficult. For
one instance, d prominent poultry pub
LEGATION ran a notice that the show had
been called off Whether this was Il
mere mischance or deliberate effort
TO hurt the show will probably never be
known But it was one example OF
many handbags under which the show
officials labored. Under Go4etan'
rain OF knocks and against an opposl-
ton that was bitter and not always in
the open, the officials have gone ahead
with the show and by steady work and
by knowing how have given show that
has set a new high-water mark in the
South
The Georgia Poultry association is
in the field for good. 1t will give a
show next year, the year after and the
year after that. 1t was the first on the
field and It has come to stay. It knows
that Atlanta is entitled to the biggest
show in Dixie, and one of the biggest
In America, and It has made the right
moves 20 attain that end. 1t gave the
classiest show this year that the South
has ever known 1t is now going ahead
with plans for an even better one next
season.