Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition.

CHAPTER IX.--POULTRY SHOWS 83

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The first Show--The first Birmingham Show--Influence of Shows--Exhibition Rules--Hatching for Summer and Winter Shows--Weight--Exhibition Fowls sitting--Matching Fowls--Imparting lustre to the Plumage--Washing Fowls--Hampers--Travelling--Treatment on Return--Washing the Hampers and Linings--Exhibition Points--Technical Terms.

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