ONE-HUNDRED YEARS AGO Saturday January 31, 1920

Kilkerran birds at Larkhall Show

Larkhall Ornithological Society, whose yearly shows are the premier events of their kind in Scotland, this year celebrates its jubilee. This made the show held last Saturday more interesting and important.

The prizes offered were unusually numerous and valuable, with the result leading breeders in the kingdom were forward with entries.

More than schedules were posted to breeders in this district, but only one, Mr Ollar, responded.

Mr Ollar sent a team of greys, three cockerels and four pullets, all bred at Kilkerran, and shown for the first time outside.

In the respective classes, in which many club winners stood ticketless, Mr Ollar won first, second and third prizes with his three cockerels, and first, second, third and fourth with his four pullets.

He also secured the society’s special for the best bird in the grey classes, the Bailie Anderson special for most points in classes 1 to 8, and the Lee Championship Jubilee Silver Cup and case (value 25 guineas) and gold medal for the best exhibit in the large poultry and bantam sections.

The Kilkerran birds came in for general admiration. For style, markings, tracing and faultless condition, they stood in a class by themselves.

Noted breeders and recent winners at the Scottish Grey Club show admitted their outstanding excellence.

Mr Ollar has shown no greys during the war, his last effort being at the Crystal Palace, London, in 1913, when he was successful in securing the two first and special prizes for the national fowl.

There has been no palace show held since then owing to the war.

Mr Ollar is to be congratulated in adding to his already formidable collection of trophies the jubilee prizes of Scotland’s leading show.

He will be pleased to show the birds and trophies to any caller at his place at Kilkerran.