Poultry fancier . tip of tail. Near-ly every cockerel we examined had apure white, olive shaped ear lobe al-most as perfect as an artist coulddraw, and every one of them carrieda low tail and showed such wonder-ful Minorca symmetry as we havenever seen before among so large anumber of birds. The pullets, whilenot quite so fully matured, are con-structed along the same standard linesand if Dr. Mellors Minorcas do notwin more blue ribbons this seasonthan ever before, it will be on accountof the fact that the Judge does notknow the Minorca Standard or elsesome one has secret pens of birdstoo sacr
Poultry fancier . tip of tail. Near-ly every cockerel we examined had apure white, olive shaped ear lobe al-most as perfect as an artist coulddraw, and every one of them carrieda low tail and showed such wonder-ful Minorca symmetry as we havenever seen before among so large anumber of birds. The pullets, whilenot quite so fully matured, are con-structed along the same standard linesand if Dr. Mellors Minorcas do notwin more blue ribbons this seasonthan ever before, it will be on accountof the fact that the Judge does notknow the Minorca Standard or elsesome one has secret pens of birdstoo sacred for the eyes of thestranger within the gates to lookupon. Dr. Mellors winnings at MadisonSquare Garden, Philadelphia andother great Eastern shows are wellknown to all our readers and we sim-ply desire to state in closing this ar-ticle that we are certain no one willhave cause to regret their act if theyare fortunate enough to secure someof Dr. Mellors great Black Minorcasfor show-room competition this Two of Dr. Howard Mellors Great Champion Minorcas. 954 POULTRY FANCIER. DECEMBER REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MARKET POULTRY AND EGGSTANDARD. The committee appointed by theAmerican Poultry Association to pre-pare a Market Poultry and Egg-Standard held its first meeting of thewhole committee at Chicago, on Mon-day, the 28th of October, at 10 A. following members of the com-mittee were present: R. H. Essex,Chairman, Buffalo, N. Y.; W. R. Gra-ham, Guelph, Ont.; T. E. Quisenberry,Mountain Grove, Mo.; Wm. Lippin-cott, Manhattan, Kan.; H. C. Pierce,Nashville, Tenn.; G. C. Bowman, To-peka, Kan.; Frank Hare, Quincy, 111.;Harry M. Lamon, Washington, D. C;Paul Mandeville, Chicage, 111. The whole committee was thereforepresent except Mn J. Foster*Browns Mills, N. J., who was ill andcould not attend. Mr. Reese V. Hicks and Mr. S. , president and secretary ofthe Association, were present. Mr. Robert H. Essex, Chairman ofthe committee, outlined the work tobe done, fir
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