Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
GEORGIA POULTRY
{ TR|ES SWELL
Finest Exhibition of Standard
Breeds of Fowls Will Be
Displayed at Show.

c O. Harwell, secretary of the Geor-
ole 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
II is probable that Mr.. Harwell and
b,s assistants know more about the
technical end of giving poultry shows
han any other men in the South. They
have been at it steadily for almost nine
wears They have given eight success
ful shows.
This fact is of interest to breeders,
exhibitors and the poultry breeding and
noylt.v loving public. 1t means that
rha coming show will be put on expert
*. and we'll: that the detail work will be
handled intelligently and efficiently
that the birds entered will be well
handled. that the show will be ready to
onen on time. with all the birds cooped
and ready; that the judges will be pro-
vided with efficient assistants, and that
z-hsn it is all over all birds entered will
no 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
harvard fowls for the purpose of MAX
inp 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 ara
wiling 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 a
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, il owes no man cent. it
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.
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 20
Augusta. 1t does not number any vast
lot of freak breeds But it does number
birds from the farms of the country's
best breeders of the real standard va
rieties, the varieties that people ac-
tually keep.
Some Fancy Breeds Entered,
There Is always mild curiosity in
the latest thing in Wallikikis, Coucou
1e Malines Guelders Cuckoo Cochin
Bdntams 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 ia what the coming show will
offer. The country has been fine
combed for entries from the really
btga-class breeders and the result will
be a showing which, for rea! quality
Las never before been equaled in
Dixie. Very shortly the association
viii announce some of the famous
breeders who will SHOW in Atlanta and
inc list will be one that will create a
sensation. For never before have so
many high-clas farms been represent
ed in Dixie show
Indications now afe that there will be
several shows in the South this year
mat will top the coming one in number
OF entries. but that there will not be
one this year and that there has never
oeen one which has equalled this one