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
out 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 confldentially 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 4
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 d
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 a show
ing Of Orpingtons in any city Atlanta's
size or anywhere near 1t.
Another notable feature Of the show
has been the range, variety and excel
lence of the special exhibition stock.
The fancy stuff shown by Briarciff
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
en- will never be known except to the
few on the inside. The question of
money was not involved. There was
| always plenty of money in sight to
| run 1t. But everything else was against
it and there was opposition-open and
secret-that made matters difficult For
one instance, a prominent poultry pub
| LEGATION ran a notice that the show had
been called off Whether this was a
mere mischance or a deliberate effort
| to hurt the show will probably never be
| known But IT was one example of
many handicaps under which the show
| officials labored. Under q CONSTANT
rain Of knocks and against an opposi-
| 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.
| Tho 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. 1t 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 to 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