CORRESPONDENCE.
THE POULTRY SHOW.
[To the Editor of the Daily Teleo-ravii.] Sill, —I was much surprised to find that I was only awarded the second prize for light young cocks, Brahmas, at' the Poultry Show yesterday. I consider the one that obtained the first prize was not nearly so good a, bird as that exhibited by mo, and certainly not of sufficient merit to be awarded a first place, being quite too dark and dirty. This, I take it, is the result tilemploying local judges, who, instead of looking to quality j judge a bird apparently by some other method unknown to experts. —I am, &(•«, G-. IT. Wootton. [Mr Wootton is not .singular in his opinion of an adverse judgment. There are veiy few men who do not regard their commonplace geese as most superior swans, and we suppose there never was an exhibition at •which the less fortunate exhibitor did not believe the judges were actuated by other motives than true discrimination. The one great use of exhibition:-! is that, by affording a comparison, owners of exhibits can see where their neighbors shine and whore they fail—Ed. D.T\]
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3761, 4 August 1883, Page 3
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