National Agricultural Library

A Just Judge (The Eastern Poultryman)

This is a story about a champion fancy chicken once named as an example of "Real Perfection as distinguished from Ideal Perfection." After starting out as an exclusively Fancy Chicken she starts to decline. Just when it looks as though death is imminent the chicken is sold, moved to a farm, and transformed into a laying hen. She has one last chance as an exhibition bird, however, and a judgment of her championship nature is made again.

George Goffin, Freeport Maine

"…From the time they hung the blue ribbon on her coop, she always had an audience to the end of the show. She was well trained and took it all as a matter of course. She showed herself front, three-quarters, profile, back, almost as regularly as a revolving show case. But she listened to the praise on every hand with composure, the more so as much of it would have made her of another breed entirely…."

page 89

The Eastern Poultryman, Volume 4, Number 6, page 89-90