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FANCIERS' JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 



Dun Turbits— 1st premium, R. M. Griffith. 



Red Wing Turbits— 1st premium, R. M. Griffith. 



Blue "Winged Turbits— 1st premiums, Jos. M. Wade'; 2d, 



R. M. Griffith. 

 Silver Winged Turbits— 3d premium, R. M. Griffith. 

 Black Snells— 2d premium P. M. Baker. 

 Red Mahomets — 1st premium, R. M. Griffith. 

 Starling Quakers— 1st premium, P. M. Baker. 

 Red Quakers — 1st premium, John Spealler. 

 Blue Quakers— 1st premium, R. M. Griffith. 

 Black Priests — 1st premium, John Parker. 

 White Duchess— 1st premium, B. P. Lewis ; 2d, R. M. 



Griffith. 

 Isabella Duchess— 1st premium, R. M. Griffith. 

 Archangel— 1st premium, B. F. Lewis. 



BLUE OWLS. 



1st premium, P. M. Baker. 



White Owls— 1st premium, W. A. Henry; 2d, John Par- 

 ker. 



Yellow Owls— 1st premium, John Parker; 2d, W. A. Bur- 

 pee. 



Yellow-winged Owls — 1st premium, B. P. Lewis. 



Black Owls— 1st premium, Jos. M. Wade. 



Runts— 1st premium, W. A. Henry ; 2d, W. A. Henry. 



Yellow Trumpeters— 1st premium, R. M. Griffith ; 2d, spe- 

 cial mention, B. F. Lewis. 



Suabians— 1st premium, R. M. Griffith; 2d, P. M. Baker. 



%ttm$ interring m& ^musing. 



fijg" Silas W. Studley, Catskill Station, N. Y., took first 

 prize on Silver Sebrights at the Buffalo Show, whereas our 

 report credits him with only third.. 



jJgg'By the steamer "Herder," from Hamburg, Mr. P. 

 T. BarnUm received four Antelopes, four Llamas, nine 

 Apes, two Peacocks, three White Bears, five Ponies, seven 

 Dogs, one Goat, and two Reindeers. 



gg^-Canvass-back ducks are shot in large numbers in Pole- 

 cat Bay, nearly opposite Mobile, and sell in the markets at 

 $1.50 per pair. Black Ducks can be bought for 75 cents 

 per pair. 



g@T The Merrimack Valley Poultry Association was the 

 first to affiliate with the American Poultry Association, 

 being proposed and the initiation fee of ten dollars paid 

 by General Charles A. Johnson, President of the above 

 Association. 



g®» A Hen that Respects the Sabbath. — There is 

 now in Delaware City a common hen that laid during the 

 past fall thirty-two eggs, laying the first egg on Saturday, 

 omitting Sunday, commencing again early on Monday 

 morning, and laying the six days of each week, the last egg 

 being laid on Saturday evening at six o'clock, but always 

 omitting Sunday. 



jgg= Action or the French Government in the 

 Raising of Carrier Pigeons. — The French Government, 

 acting on the recommendation of the Committee on Fortifi- 

 cations, has determined to keep, for the next five years, five 

 thousand pairs of Carrier Pigeons for breeding purposes, for 

 service in war time. Each fortress will have a military 

 pigeon-house, and each pigeon-house will contain one 

 thousand birds. Two general stations will be established, 

 at each of which sixty thousand pigeons will be kept. The 

 German fortresses at Metz and Strasbourg have been for a 

 year past connected with other German forts by a system of 

 Carrier Pigeons. 



ggf Importation. — While at the Boston Show, we were 

 Informed that General Charles A. Johnson, of Newbury- 

 port, had just imported two trios of Aylesbury Ducks and 

 one young Rouen Duck. They are from the yards of Mr. 

 Fowler, who writes that they are the equals of any Ducks 

 now in England. The parents of the Rouen Duek were 

 prize birds at Birmingham, and weighed twenty-two 

 pounds, two ounces. They arrived too late to be entered 

 for the Boston Show. 



86?" How Friend Ratjb Won The First Premium. — 

 One of the officers of the Doylestown Society perpetrated 

 a good joke upon himself during the early part of the fair. 

 The night before the committee were to examine the fowls 

 he remained in the room until after midnight, applying soap, 

 oil, and other cosmetics to a fine display of Brown Leghorns. 

 At that time the lots were not named, and our friend sup- 

 posed that all in a certain range were his own. He took espe- 

 cial pains with one coop, making the birds shine again, and 

 felt confident that they would take the first prize. And sure 

 enough they did. The card of first premiun was duly tacked 

 on the coop, and our exhibitor was happy. Pretty soon 

 another officer, who remembered the numbers, came along 

 and at once discovered that the prize fowls belonged to A. 

 N. Raub, Lock Haven, Pa. It was a sad disappointment for 

 our Doylestown friend, who said he had groomed up that 

 lot the best of all. — Doylestown Paper. 



OFFICIAL LIST OF PREMIUMS 



Awarded at the Third Annual Exhibition of the Massachusetts 

 Poultry Association, held at Boston Music Hall, February 

 bth to Uth, 1874. 



GALLINACEOUS DIVISION. 

 CLASS I.— ASIATIC. 

 Best Collection Dark Brahmas Bred by Exhibitor. — Special 

 premium, No. 9, C. E. Tuttle, Boston ; special premium No. 

 10, best ten trios Dark Brahma Chicks, C. E. Tuttle, Bos- 

 ton ; special premium No. 11, best collection Dark Brahmas, 

 C. E. Tuttle, Boston ; special premium .No. 12, best trio 

 Dark Brahma Chicks, T. O. Wardwell, North Andover ; 

 special premium No. 13, best Dark Brahma Cock raised in 

 the United States, John P. Buzzell. Dark Brahmas. — 

 Chicks— 1st prize, T. 0. Wardwell, North Andover; 2d 

 prize, C. E. Tuttle, Boston ; 3d prize, C. E. Tuttle, Boston ; 

 4th prize, T. O. Wardwell, North Andover, Mass. ; 5th 

 prize,- C. E. Tuttle, Boston. Dark Brahmas. — Fowls — 1st 

 prize, C. E. Tuttle, Boston ; 2d prize, John P. Buz- 

 zell, Clinton ; 3d prize, C. E. Tuttle, Boston ; 4th prize, 

 C. E. Tuttle, Boston ; special premium No. 4, best Light 

 Brahma Cockerel, J. P. Buzzell, Clinton ; special premium 

 No. 5, best Light Brahma Pullet, John P. Buzzell, Clinton ; 

 special premium No. 6, for Light Brahmas showing the 

 fullest breast, not less than twelve birds in all of either or 

 both sexes, being of the exhibitor's own stock, S. H. War- 

 ren, Weston ; special premium No. 7, best collection Light 

 Brahma Chickens, John P. Buzzell, Clinton; special pre- 

 mium No. 8, best twelve Light Brahma Cockerels, S. H. 

 Warren, Weston ; special premium No 3, best ten trios 

 Light Brahmas, raised and exhibited by one man, John P. 

 Buzzell, Clinton; special premiun No. 1, Association Cham- 

 pion Cup for Brahmas, for the best trio of Light or Dark 

 Brahma Chickens, bred by exhibitor, the champion cup, 

 value $50, John P. Buzzell, Clinton, subject to the following- 

 conditions: The winner shall place the cup in the hands of 

 the Executive Committee for competition at each succeeding 

 exhibition. In every case the name of the winner to be en- 

 graved upon the cup, with date of award and variety for 

 which awarded. Light Brahmas. — Chicks — 1st prize, J. P. 

 Buzzell, Clinton ; 2d prize, Sturtevant Bros., South Fram- 

 ingham ; 3d prize, J. P. Buzzell, Clinton ; 4th prize, C. A. 



