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POULTRY EXCHANGE. 



Vol. I. 



PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 26, 1874. 



AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 



ADJOURNED MEETING. 



Boston, February 5, 1874, 7}4 p.m. 



" The Association met persuant to adjournment, the Presi- 

 dent, W. H. Churchman, of Delaware, in the chair ; E. S. 

 Ralph, Buffalo, N. Y., Secretary. 



The reading of minutes of previous meeting, at Buffalo, 

 N. Y., was dispensed with, they having been printed and 

 circulated to members. 



The following persons were proposed and duly elected as 

 members: C. E. Marsh, Evansville, Ind.; D. W. Herstine, 

 Samuel P. Courtney, Paul M. Baker, John E. Diehl, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa.; General C. A. Johnson, Newburyport, Mass.; 

 E. C. Gomey, Qidncy, Mass.; Harry G. Blanchard, Detroit, 

 Mich.; W. L. Tobey, Valley Falls, R. I.; W. R. Hills, 

 Albany, N. Y.; A. E. Hart, S. S. VanBuren, Henry Chapin, 

 Hartford, Conn. 



On motion of General C. A. Johnson, the following para- 

 graph was added to the Instructions to Judges : 



"Judges must in all cases make a pro rata reduction for 

 any fractional part of a pound that a specimen falls short of 

 the largest or standard bird." 



On motion , of General C. A. Johnson, the Merrimac 

 Valley Poultry Association was duly received as an affili- 

 ating society, and entitled to membership and representa- 

 tion under Article III, Section 2, of Constitution. 



On motion of H. T. Sperry, seconded by C. A. Sweet, it 

 was resolved that no breed of fowls he represented by like- 

 ness on the cover or title-page of the new " Standard of 

 Excellence." 



The Committee on the " Willis Investigation " made par- 

 tial report, and the committee directed to continue investi- 

 gations. 



On motion, after much debate, it was 



Resolved, That A. M. Halstead be and is hereby ex- 

 pelled from this Association for introducing a member 

 under a fictitious name at its January session, in the city of 

 Buffalo, N. Y., and that this action be published in the 

 Poultry World, Poultry Bulletin, and Fanciers' Journal. 



Adopted unanimously. 



On motion of W. H. Lockwood, the Executive Commit- 

 tee adjourned to meet at its regular annual session, in Jan- 

 uary, 1875. E. S. Ralph, 



Secretary. 

 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 



Boston, Mass., February 5, 1874 

 To W. H. Churchman, 



President of the American Poultry Association : 

 We, the undersigned, members of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the American Poultry Association, desire that 

 you call a meeting of the Executive Committee, at 11 

 o'clock a.m. on Friday, February 6, 1874, to take action on 



an important matter which we desire to bring before the 

 meeting. (Signed) 



H. T. Sperry, E. P. Howlett, P. Williams, 



C. A. Sweet, A. D. Warren, E. S. Ralph, 



A. J. Tuck, H. S. Ball, P. W. Hudson. 



In answer to the above call, the President convened the 

 Executive Committee of the American Poultry Association 

 promptly at 11 o'clock a.m., February 6, 1874, at Boston, 

 Mass. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



W. H. Churchman in the chair; E. S. Ralph, Secretary. 



On motion, Lewis Wright, of London, England, was 

 elected an honorary member of this Association. 



The following persons, being approved by the Executive 

 Committee, were duly elected members, viz. : Hon. Virgil C. 

 Gilman, Colonel D. W. King, Albert Beard, N. C. Lucier, 

 John Reed, Nashua, N. H.; Charles L. Spaulding, Hudson, 

 N. H.; George F. Parker, Henry Bisco, Leicester, Mass.; 

 H. Woodward, W. J. Wheeler, 0. B. Hadwin, E. Childs, 

 Winslow S. Lincoln, Horace B. Verry, George A. Dixon, 

 W. H. Bliss, E. H. Knowlton, Worcester, Mass.; W. J. 

 Underwood, Nathaniel Foster, Jr., Belmont, Mass.; W. 

 Henry Brackett, J. Newton Cady, Edward H. Harsthorn, 

 Charles E. Tuttle, Edward B. Reynolds, Boston, Mass.; 

 Henry F. Felch, Nalick, Mass.; Edmund Rodman, New 

 Bedford, Mass.; Charles L. Copland, Milton, Mass.; John P. 

 Buzzell, Clinton, Mass.; William B. Atkinson, Neivbury- 

 port, Mass.; C. Carroll Loring, Dedham, Mass.; Mark Pit- 

 man, North Beverly, Mass.; Colonel George A. Meacham, 

 North Cambridge, Mass.; Fred. S. Potter, North Dartmouth, 

 Mass.; Nathaniel J. Bacheller, Lynn, Mass.; George F. 

 Seavey, Cambridgeport, Mass.; Samuel H. Warren, Weston, 

 Mass.; L. L. Greenleaf, Eva.nston, III.; N. B. Sherwin, 

 Cleveland, Ohio; Nathaniel S. Collyer, Pawtucket, R. I.; 

 E. R. Spaulding, Cedar Creek, N. J.; C. S. Haines, Toms 

 River, N. J.; J. S. Brown, Galveston, Texas; Dr. L. L. 

 Holcombe, Terre Borme, La.; Charles E. Laughton, Reno, 

 Nevada. 



On motion. of H. T. Sperry, seconded by A. D. Warren, 

 the following preamble and resolution were unanimously 

 adopted : 



Whereas, The American Poultry Association has for one 

 of its principal objects the protection of all honorable poultry 

 fanciers and dealers, and to that end will promptly expel 

 from membership members found guilty of dishonorable 

 acts ; and 



Whereas, The publication of advertisements in the Poul- 

 try Journals of the United States, whose editors and pub- 

 lishers are members of this Association, is likely to be 

 interpreted as a partial indorsement of dealers so adver- 

 tising, and the editors, by a careful exclusion from their 

 columns of all advertisements and mention of dealers and 

 others known to be guilty of dishonorable acts, can largely 

 protect all their honest and honorable patrons, thus ad- 



