Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
FOWLS FOR
POULTRY EXHIBIT
Impressive List of Entries for
Ninth Annual Show of Geor-
gia Poultry Association.

c. o. Harwe1l, secretary of the Geor-
gia Poultry association, and his band of
assistants are working two shifts and
all sorts of overtime now in getting the
entries listed for the ninth annual Great
Central Poultry Show of the South,
which will start next Monday at the
Auditorium Armory.
1t is probable that Mr.. Harwell and
his assistants know more about the
technical end of giving poultry shows
than any other men in the South. They
have been at it steadily for almost nine
years. They have given eight success
full shows.
This fact is of interest to breeders,
exhibitors and the poultry breeding and
poultry loving public. 1t means that
the coming show will be put on expert
ly and well; that the detail work will be
handled inteligently and efficiently;
that the birds entered will be well
handled that the show will be ready to
open on time, with all the birds cooped
and ready; that the judges will be pro-
vided with efficient assistants, and that
when it is all over all birds entered will
be returned in good order to those who
entered them.
Only Best Birds Shown.
There will be no buncombe no circus
side lines, no illustrated lectures, no
hocus- pocus, no packing OF coops with
barnyard fowls for the purpose of max
ing a showing 1t will be merely an
exhibit of the best birds that can be bred
in America. 1t will represent not only
the best products of the yards of the
Souths best breeders, but the best of
those of other sections as well.
Different poultry shows are given for
different reasons. The Georgia Poultry
associations show is given by public
spirited citizens of Georgia, who are
willing to give their time and their
money for the good of the breed in the
South. Nobody makes anything out of
it, For years and years the show was
dead loss. And in those lean years the
men of the Georgia Poultry association
dug into their pockets without grum-
bling and paid their losses. Now the
Georgia Poultry association owns its
own coops, it owes no man a cent, 1t
has underwritten the coming show, and
every debt contracted will be paid right
off the reel as every debt contracted by
the association in the past has been
paid when due.
A glance over the list of entries is
| impressive. 1t isn't the largest number
| of entries ever gathered for a. Southern
show. That honor goes each year to
Augusta. It does not number any vast
lot of freak breeds. But it does number
| irJe fL,a 70 oP he trxysa
best breeders of the real standard va
rieties, the varieties that people ac-
! tually keep.
Some Fancy Breeds Entered.
| There is always a mild curiosity in
the latest thing in Wallikikis, Coucou
| de Malines, Guelders, Cuckoo Cochin
Bantams and LaFleches; but what
prospective buyers want to see is the
best that is to be had in Plymouth
Rocks, Reds, Leghorns, Orpingtons,
Wyandottes and the like.
That Is what the coming show will
offer. The country has been fine
combed for entries from the really
high class breeders and the result will
be a showing which, for real quality
has never before been equalled in
Dixie. Very shortly the association
will announce some of the famous
breeders who will show in Atlanta and
| the list will be one that will create a
sensation. For never before have so
many high-class farms been represent
| ed in a Dixie show.
Indications now are that there will be
several shows in the South this year
that will top the coming one in number
Of entries. but that there will not be
one this year and that there has never
been one which has equalled this one
| in class