Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

I find this subject very interesting and was reminded of it again, when I came across a story of one of the APA honored breeders in APA yearbook KB lent me because of an interesting article on Columbian Wyandottes.
By now I have read the book cover to cover as I am want to do and this story caught my attention....
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This is an excerpt from Rev. R Roming story..
At the age of 18, I went to work for Pleasant View Farms of Horsheads, NY, there I put together 105 breeding pens of LF and 75 pens of bantams, plus water fowl and pigeons.I also began putting together Fair strings.
The first contained 1 000 birds while the second came around 650 of which about 75% were raised on the farm.
It was during this process I discovered the joy of completing the strings, by going to and buying from many of the old time breeders of quality poultry.
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For those who aren't familiar with this, the "string men" travelled from Fair to Fair, where they put on displays of these birds.
As far as I can tell, this practice existed from early eighteen hundreds, before APA was formed until sometime in the fifties.

Do a google search for " Stringmans Scrap Book " by Marion Nash some excellent history of past stringmen

I saw an article about this don't know where now but it was really interesting, they used to take a string of birds to all the fairs and back then made pretty good money.

BobG wrote:QR_BBPOST Do a google search for " Stringmans Scrap Book " by Marion Nash some excellent history of past stringmen

Thank you, googling "stringman" turned out to be a bad idea
didn't realize there was a book, although $999 seems to be a bit much, price on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca doesn't list it. Will have to look up in some poultry specialty bookstores.

Ontario Chick wrote:QR_BBPOST

BobG wrote:QR_BBPOST Do a google search for " Stringmans Scrap Book " by Marion Nash some excellent history of past stringmen

Thank you, googling "stringman" turned out to be a bad idea
didn't realize there was a book, although $999 seems to be a bit much, price on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca doesn't list it. Will have to look up in some poultry specialty bookstores.

Now I am curious as to what turns up....

Ontario Chick wrote:QR_BBPOST

BobG wrote:QR_BBPOST Do a google search for " Stringmans Scrap Book " by Marion Nash some excellent history of past stringmen

Thank you, googling "stringman" turned out to be a bad idea
didn't realize there was a book, although $999 seems to be a bit much, price on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca doesn't list it. Will have to look up in some poultry specialty bookstores.

I own a copy of "THE STRINGMAN'S scrap book" by Marion R. Nash. Purchased this around the mid seventies. Forgot what I paid for this back then, I know that it was not cheap, but for sure less than $100 Canadian though, nowhere even close to $999!! I know that it's an extremely interesting and excellent book for the avid Poultry Fancier, but for that kind of money, $999, you can buy your chicken feed for almost 6 months! Just my humble opinion. Pete.

:)
Although I tend to be pretty generous when I purchase my Christmas presents for myself, I am not that generous.
This is going to be another book on my list of "if I come across it in used book shop" which is a pretty long list by now.

If you don't mind reading in electronic format (I HATE it but sometimes make exceptions) Jessica Books online has loads of free out of print stuff. Worth a look?

Ontario Chick wrote:QR_BBPOST :)
Although I tend to be pretty generous when I purchase my Christmas presents for myself, I am not that generous.
This is going to be another book on my list of "if I come across it in used book shop" which is a pretty long list by now.

Here are a few peaks of what you can expect when you ever come across a copy of it OC.

Thank you so much for posting, what a treat to get a peak at the book. !
and of course now I really really want it...