The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
REAL CHICKEN SHOW
OPENS IN NEW YORK
POULTRY EXHIBIT STELLAR
ATTRACTION OF WEEK IN
MADISON SQUARE.
A BARNARD SCENE is LAID
Southern Girl Tells Society How to
Replace Lap Dogs With Pet Egg
Layers. Gotham Population Knows
Nothing About Chickens.

NEW YORK, N. Y-Having d
morbid interest in any creature con.
tanning mechanism TO produce eggs
at dollar a dozen New York is en-
pertaining group OF poultry raisers
and their collective stables or coops
of chickens.
A large section of the local popula-
ton knows only about chickens-that
Iyou pay IS cents for two Of their eggs
soft-boiled in any dairy lunch either
or both of which is likely to go pop
and distribute a yellow motif over the
waistcoat at the first crack of knife,
A few have known all along that
chickens work on farms and usually
legend in New York, however, that
they're devils when aroused.
Not knowing much about chickens,
New York welcomed the poultry men
and their feathered employees to Mad
ison Square Garden without prejudice,
and whatever impression they leave
on the city will be their own doing.
Cackles in Rapid Fire.
This is how it happens, anyway, that
Madison Square Garden is now occu-
pied by thousands of chickens, ducks,
geese, canaries and pigeons, some tur-
keys, a delegation of rabbits and a
half dozen girlish goats engaged in
the dairy industry and attending I'M
der protest, not wishing to be identi-
fed as poultry or any kin thereto.
The ducks and geese also seem to
resent being identified as associates OF
chickens which are stupid and erratic,
and the garden resounds all day long
with running fire of contumelious
comment from the former to the lat
ter.
But the show itself has aroused
much more local interest than was
at first expected, partly because Miss
Elsner Wilson, of Baton Rouge, La,
the poultry club agent at the state uni
versity there, is trying to replace the
poodle and the Pomeranian with the
little brown hen wherever the former
occur in New York
Miss Wilson offers the theory that
the typical New York lap-dog prac-
tically is useless.
Miss Wilson States Aims.
She would encourage the women
who now entertain these creatures 10
Investigate the charms of the barnyard
hen as a household pet, promising that
the hen will lay an egg. every day with
Sundays off, in a Park avenue apart
ment with no more inconvenience
than in an up-country hennery.
There also is the precedent of Lord
Dewar, that jovial, white-haired
Scotsman friend of Sir Tommy Lip
ton and maker of Scotch whisky, who
entered seventy-hve birds of various
strains in the show and took prizes
with two-thirds of them.
This poultry show is the largest
ever held in New York and one of the
largest ever held anywhere. Consider
ing that New York seldom attends
the show at all, leaving that almost
entirely to the farmers who come in
to study poultry husbandry. The daily
attendance of thousands OF people has
been very encouraging to the breed
ers. One of their objects is to place
a cage of chickens in every back yard
in the New York suburbs, promising
that with very little care the birds will
produce Sunday dinners and break
fast eggs for the family the year
around.