THE POULTRY SHOW.

Evening Star, Issue 3272, 15 August 1873, Page 2

THE POULTRY SHOW.

This loug-talked-of novelty has at last been realised with a success that justifies the most sanguine expectation of the promoters. We had no idea that so vast a concourse of domestic fowls of so many different breeds could be gathered together as to render necessary four rows, two tiers high, the whole length of the Drill-shed, with a cross table and special boxes in other parts of the room. We must, however, explain that the cross table, with a portion of one of the side tables, is devoted to an aviary of parrots, canaries, and other singing and talking birds —pretty, healthy, active creatures, glittering in golden and brilliant colored plumage. Long before reaching the building, the ear was saluted with a chorus of crowing, in which the deep bass of some gigantic specimen of gallinacse rang out to the shrill treble of a bantam. We must leave the prize list to tell of Cochin Chinas and Malaya, dorking, Spanish, game, barn-door fowls, of gobbling turkeys, chirping guinea fowl, quacking ducks, and hissing geese. 'J he whole assemblage, which would have delighted Darwin, is a choice selection of the best specimens, and perhaps he might have been able to discover in some of them the germ of a future race of domestic fowl equalling the gigantic proportions of a moa or au ostrich. Jf he be right iu his theory, why not? The bantam would not be less a pet, because one of his class grew big enough to feast a parish. ’Hie dairy produce table was scantily supplied, mainly because the opportunity of exhibition was not sufficiently widely known. What was oh it was good, aud all of Utago produce. Cheese equal to fine double Gloucester, bam and bacon cured and smoked after the most approved fashion. One aid* of bacon, cut for the purpose, disclosed deli-cious-looking strata of nipely proportioned fat aud lean, side by side with plump, handsome poultry ready for the spit. One could not help the tenth commandment when looking at them, and wishing they were equally ready for being tasted as tb

were for being sold to grace somebody else’a table. The butter, too, was of the best. The little that there wag showed what can be done in i tago. N<xt season we have little doubt that there will be more competition for prizes for dairy produce. The prize list was as follows :

Belgian Canaries. —Best yellow cock, young : Kichard Bills, 2nd prize. Beat yellow Belgian cock, adult: Ist, J. Alberte; 2nd, do.; 3rd, J. E. Peart. Best buff or mealy cock : Ist, 2nd, and 3rd, J. Alberte. Best buff Belgian hen : Ist, J. Alberte ; 2nd, H. D. Pirie. Best variegated yellow Belgian cock: Ist, J, Alb He; 2nd, R. D. Pirie ; 3rd, J. Alberte. Belgians, any other variety • 2nd, J, Alberte, Best variegated Belgian hen : R. Clifford. Half-bred Belgians : K. Clifford. Common Canaries. —Cinnamon : William Harper. Lizard: W. Harper. Manchester copy : Ist, J. Alberte; 2nd and 3rd, R. Clifford.

Goldfinches. William Harris ; 3rd, R. Clifford. Mules : Ist, F. Bayley; 2nd, W. Harper. Skylarks: Ist, 2nd, and 3rd, W. Harris. Blackbird :W, Harris. Parroquet: Ist, R. Clifford ; 2nd, Jas. Curie. Breeding Cages,— lst, R, Clifford ; 2nd and 3rd, J. Alberte. Nursery Cage : Ist, J. Alberte.

Poultry. Black-breasted Red Game (adult): Ist, W. Sly; 2nd, R. H. Buckley. (Young birds) : Ist, John .Snow ; 2nd, L. G. Galbraith ; 3rd, W. Harper (hou. certificate). Yellow Duckwing (adults) : Ist, F. Pell. (Young birds) ; Ist, Wo. Craig. Silver Duckwings (young): Ist, Wm. Sly. Dark Brahmas (adults), Ist. J. F. Douglass. 2nd, Mrs C. Flexman; 3rd, Robert Hay. (Young birds) : Ist, Robert Hay; 2nd, A. R. Ure; 3rd, John Snow. Light Brahmas (adults) : Ist, Colman Burke. Colored Dorking (young) : Ist, 0. Burke. Black Spanish (adults): Ist, Mrs C. Flexman ; 2nd, W, Sly ; 3rd, C. Burke. Black Spanish (young) ; Ist, H, Mitchell; 2nd, J. E. Peart. Buff Cochins (adults): Ist, Mrs C. Flexman; 2nd, A. Solomon; 3nd, W. Harper. White Cochins (young): A. Solomon. Gold-pencilled Hamburga : Ist, W. Harper. Gold-spangled Polands : Ist, W. Harper ; 2nd, J. P. Peake. Bantams (any other sort): Ist, J. F. Peake. Blackbreasted red Bantams (adults) : Ist, John Aikman; 2nd, C. Burke. Black-breasted game Bantams : Ist and 2nd, W. A. Bugler. Duckwing game Bantams : Ist, W. Sly; 2nd do, honorary certificate. Gold Pheasants : Ist, J. F. Peake. Guinea Fowls: Ist, J. F. Peake; 2nd, W. Harper. Turkeys (any other variety) : Ist, J. F. Peake; 2nd, W. Harper. Geese ; Ist, W. Harper, Aylesbury Ducks : Ist, Mrs Flexmam Ducks (any other sort): Ist, W. Harper. Pigeons. —Black Tumblers: Ist, J. A. Park ; 2nd, J. B. Peart. Mottled Tumblers : Ist, J. A. Park ; 2nd, W. Lambert. Yellow Barbs : Ist, W, Lambert, Black Jacobins : Ist W. M‘Laren. Black Baldheads; Hon. certificate, J. A. Park. Blue Baldheads ; Hob. certificate, W. Sly. Fantails : Ist, W. Lambert. Trumpeters ; Hon. certificate, J. A. Park.

Dairy Produce.— Trussed Poulty ; Pair of Fowls and Turkey, Ist W. Harper. Goose aud pair of Ducks : Ist, W. Harper. Butter: Ist, Mrs Mitchell ; 2nd, Mrs H. Mitchell. Best Colonial Ham : Ist, Irving ; 2nd, Esther and Low. Best basket of Hen Eggs: Ist, W. H, Eyre ; 2nd, H. Mitchell. Best side of Bacon : Ist, Irving; 2nd, Esther and Low.