WORLD’S FAIR POULTRY SHOW

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1680, 11 May 1904, Page 71 (Supplement)

WORLD’S FAIR POULTRY SHOW

I Tho'-’regular cash prizes offered for exhibits oh poultry, pigeons, and pet ! stock at the Louisiana Universal Exposition of 1904 aggregate more than ; ;£3200. This large amount will be greatly increased by appropriations made b# World’s Fair- commissions for State exhibits. One State, Missouri, hais provided £I4OO to cover special prizesand expenses connected with the State s poultry exhibits at St. Louis. Tlie~ Exposition’s prizes were never before neairljy approached in amount at any poultry show or exposition; in fact, they largely exceed', wich one exception, the total sum offered by the. leading. State fairs for the combined live-stock breeding interests, including liorses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. The Universal Exposition has in a .marked and complimentary. manner rei cognised the poultry industry by placI i.ng the matter of receiving, cooping, ! feeding, exhibiting, and returning the poultiy, pigeons, and pet stock at the World’s Fair in the hands of a com- : mitt©© recommended for this purposeby the. American Poult-ay Association. Chief Coburn has also highly honoured the- poultry fraternity by choosing as superintendent of the poultry show Mir T. E. Orr, the secretary and treasurer of the American Poultiy Association. The committee recommended by the American Poiuil'tiy Association to assemble, exhibit and return the poultry shown at the World’s Fair consists of Henry Steinmesoh, of St. Louis; T. F. i McGrew, New York; and U. It. Fishel, ■ Hope, Ind. This committee is com-poe-led of one of the most successful super- | mtendents of large poultiy shows : a ; former secretary of the American Poul- , try Association and popular popltry ' author, and as the third member one of the- largest and most successful breeders and’ exhibitors. These- are pub-lic-spirited gentlemen, noted for their enterprise?, knowldge, and devotion to the bast interests iff the poultiy industry they eo creditably,

The committee has prepared! the following address, to prospective exhibitors, which contains valuable information :

“To exhibitors of poultry at the Universal Exposition of 1904^ , “The undersigned committee of the. i American P end try Association lias conx- ; plcted arrangements with the Universal Exposition of 1904 whereby the committee is to receive, coop,, feed, care for, exhibit, and return to their respective | owners upon the close of. the show the | poultry, pigeons and pet stock exhibited ! at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, i October 24 to November.G,. 1904. j “The committee has arranged for new ■ standard size coops of the proper size 1 feed, care, and exliibitiou cf poultry,. pigeons, and. pot stock, and will provide j- at the Exposition grounds am ample eupi ply to meet all reqjimirementS'. The co.ni- ; mittee will also provide feed and water on exhibition, ancl the neoes&airjy utemsils. for the same, and furnish all! necessary assistants.

“The committee," foir all the necessary accommodations other than the barns', including coops, furniture and all services in connection with the shipment, feed, care ad exhibition of poultry, pigeons and pet. stock specified, and such as are usually provided for such exhibition, agree to accept from exhibitors in full four first-class service arm accommodations, one dollar for single exhibits, including pet stock, two dollars for each breeding pen, and fifty cents, for each pigeon. “The committee personally, and not the American Poultry Association, will assume all responsibilities to and for exhibitors in connection with the. exhibition of poultry, pigeons,, and pet -stock at the Exposition, but assumes no responsibility for the loisia off exhibits in course of shipment, or by disease, handling, or accident while on exhibition..

“The American Poultry Association is. to receive of the fees collected from exhibitors any surplus,, after payment of all expenses, including reasonable, cohipenisahion to the committee, for cooping, feeding and caring, for the exhibits' as specified. The compensation to thecommittee for the service rendered and the responsibilities assumed in connection with the foregoing shall be deterniined by the PresideiA and Secretary of the American Poultry Ai3Siooia.tion. v