The New York herald., 1921-01-22
'BANTAMS POPULAR
AT POULTRY SHOW
Their Cages in Garden Sur
rounded by CrOwds-Final
Judging To-day.
BY JAMES $. mitchell.

This will be ''blue ribbon day. at the
Madison Square Garden Poultry Show,
and 1t will bring golden hours to the
poultry men when the ribbons will be
distributed. as we'll as the cash prizes,
cups. trophies and other winnings. The
section yesterday to attract the major
part Of the big crowd was the bantam
section, where some very choice speci-
mems were shown.
AS the bantam is kept more for pleas
ure than profit and is looked upon as a
sort of a sport" among the poultry. he
Is in high favor especially with young
persons. There were some splendid
types both in games and other varieties.
They are the result of carefully selected
small specimens of the larger breeds.
One of the very choicest of the lot is
the Seabright. of which there were only
three classes, but the shortcoming in
quantity was more than counterbalanced
by the yariegated hues of the little
fellows.
This type. which was developed by the
late Sir Peter Seabright and is the result
of cross between the Polish and Man
kin bantams, in which he got the lacing
of the former and the dininutive lines
and handsome appearance of the latter.
There are silver Seabright also. In the
golden classes d. r. Shove carried OFF
all three firsts, and one first in the silver
classes, the remainder going to the En-
pire Poultry Yards and William f.
Albers. In the black rose bantams
Henry p. Mexican had matters mostly
his own way. In other classes, like the
light Brahnia bantams, Carl II. Munkel-
witz. Enmons Raymond and William A.
Orr came In for some of the ribbons
The Andalusians had plenty of ad.
mirers among the throng. and this
beautiful Spanish variety deserved all
the attention they attracted. They were
of slate blue, the only color shown
These birds show a beautiful lacine
to the feathers and much resemble Mi
norcas in form. Their shortcoming
| toward more popularity Is that they
are faulty breeders and only about hall
| the eggs are good. The prize for the
! pullet went across the Canadian border
when John McCourtie of Winchester
Ont. won. Jennings and Rose. Ameri
can breeders, accounted for the othel
| classes.
| The Orpingtons. one of the most styl
ish breeds of modern poultry and devel
oped by William Cook OF Orpington
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are the one exception of the high clas.
| breeds that lay well in winter and are
good producers of brown eggs. AS table
birds they are highly recommended
| There are several varieties. one of thu
latest being the blue. The prize for tn,
| cook fell to the Brightholm Farms
while the first for the hen fell to tn,
Manatto Hill Farm. The prizes for th'
| cockerel and pullet went to the lot o.
! William Cook & Sons. The competition
| In the other classes was brisk. the
prominent winners being the Morri.
Poultry Farm. Rebadel Poultry Farm
Lucknow Poultry Farm, Prospec
| Farms and the Campbell Soup Farm
| There is another class of Orpingtor
called the Jubilee. 1t is a tricolor ant
the most picturesque of all the varie
ties. but none of the class was shown a
the Garden.
| There were two classes of Langshani
which seemed to catch the eyes of 10
of the visitors. The Langshans originally
came from the banks of the Yangtse
kiang River in China and have proved
to be one of the most valuable importa
/ tions that ever came from the Orient
They have brilliant plumage, are very
| good layers of a rather small sized darl
colored egg. The original type had moder
| ate length OF limb but the modern show
\ birds are much taller. II. +. KeasbJ
captured the honors for the cock. while
/ the ribbon for the hen went TO +. j
| Mesick. The blue for the cockerel was
| secured by w. A. Meyer and the puIle'
| by Peter j. Innes