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resemblance to our own stock, obtained from Mr. B., that we thought it useless to 

 endeavor to take more correct likenesses. The difference between these two varieties is 

 very slight, as is also that between the white and colored Shanghae. 



That there is a good deal of humbugging and dishonesty in the chicken speculation, 

 we too well know. We have before us a letter from a gentleman at Seneca Falls, who 

 I^rocured two dozen of White Shanghae eggs, at four dollars a dozen, of a person in this 

 city, and the chickens were of all colors and all shapes, only two or three being white. 

 We know of many others served in the same way. This same individual boasts that 

 he has made a thousand dollars in the chicken speculation this season. He figured 

 largely at the State Fair, and, we believe, took several premiums. We would advise 

 our friends not to buy eggs, unless they know those with whom they are dealing to be 

 honest. We saw at the State Fair a mongrel rooster (whose parentage we know all 

 about, having ourselves brought the egg from which he was hatched from the east,) 

 placed in a coop with a good hen, and labelled Cochin China ; and we were told, after 

 we left, the pair was sold for twenty-five dollars. One of our editorial brethren of the 

 south was looking at a coop of mongi-els, and observing to a friend that they were 

 not as represented, and were not worth more than twenty-five cents each, when he was 

 gently touched on the elbow and requested to " sjyeak low,'' by the owner, who was 

 making a bargain with some green-horn for these same fowls at twenty-five dollars a 

 pair, and which bargain he was likely to spoil. There is no need of paying such 

 extravagant prices at the present time, even for good fowls, as there are plenty of the 

 Shanghae fowls, both white and colored, and also the Cochin China, pure and fine, that 

 can be had in this neighborhood for five dollars per pair. We might fill another page 

 with the misdeeds of some of the chicken dealers, but wo have given enough to place 

 our friends on their guard. i r 



