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FANCIERS' JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 



Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Joseph M. 

 Wade, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



Jf ANCIERS' Jj OURNAL AND IB OULTRY (jf^XCHANGE, 

 JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 



Published Weekly at 39 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia. 



SUBSCRIPTION. 



Per Annum, $2 50 



Six Copies, one year 12 00 



Specimen Copies, by mail 10 



ADVERTISEMENTS 



From reliable parties, on any subject interesting to Fanciers, will be 

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 Bpace will be charged; about 12 words make a line, and 12 lines make an 

 inch of space. 



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1 column, about 108 lines, set solid 10 80, " 16 20 



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Advertisements from unknown parties must be paid for in advance. 

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THE CONNECTICUT STATE POULTRY SOCIETY 



Are about establishing permanent society rooms in which 

 to transact all business, and to hold social talks, and to be 

 used as reading rooms ; all the journals relating to poultry 

 and pet stock will be kept on file. Breeders are requested 

 to send their circulars and cards to the Recording Secretary, 

 Dr. Geo. N. Parmele, Hartford, Conn., who will see that 

 they are made good use of. The next quarterly meeting 

 will be held in Hartford, May 12th. The members are very 

 enthusiastic, and are already at work preparing for the next 

 exhibition, which will be held in Hartford, Tuesday, Wed- 

 nesday, Thursday, and Friday, December 15th, 16tb, 17th, 

 and 18th. 



The Philadelphia Pigeon Plying Association have ar 

 ranged the following five sweepstakes of one hundred dollars 

 each, to take place as follows : 



Prom Trenton, N. J., (over 30 miles), May 4th, for one 

 hundred dollars. Prom Monmouth Junction, (about 50 

 miles on New York road), June 8th, for one hundred dol 

 lars. Prom Atlantic City, (61 miles), July Oth, for one 

 hundred dollars. Atlantic City, (61 miles), August 10th 

 for one hundred dollars. New York, (92 miles), September 

 7th, for one hundred dollars. Pirst bird to receive fifty dol- 

 lars, second bird 30 dollars, third bird twenty dollars. En- 

 try fee five dollars for each bird; any number of birds 

 allowed to be entered. Open to all.. Por further informa- 

 tion, address Thomas Grist, President. 



1531 North 23d St. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 



TRIPS AMONG THE FANCIERS. 



Jos. M. Wade. 



Dear Sir : Having recently made a visit to the justly 

 famous poultry yards of the estate of H. H. S. Sharpless, 

 and thinking that a brief description of what I saw might 



be interesting to the readers of the Fanciers' Journal, I here- 

 with send it to you. 



Opon my arrival I was taken in charge by the polite 

 manager, Mr. James Brennan, who, like a true fancier, is 

 ever ready and willing to show his stock. The hen-house is 

 built in the form of an [_, facing the east and south, and is 

 about 96 feet long by 13 feet in width, and is divided into 

 eight rooms 10 by 12, with a passage way three feet in width 

 running along the back part. The floors are of cement, 

 covered with earth and sand. The nest boxes are arranged 

 along the partition, so that the eggs can be removed from 

 the passage way without entering the rooms. The front of 

 the house is nearly all glass, and each room has a separate 

 yard attached to it. The yards are laid out in the form of a 

 triangle, being about 90 feet in length and some 60 feet in 

 width at the widest end. The house and yards each have a 

 water-trough supplied by a pipe running across the yards 

 from a large tank, into which the water is pumped by a 

 water-wheel. Altogether the house and yards were perhaps 

 the most complete in their arrangement of any we have ever 

 visited. We presume that most of your readers know that 

 Dark Brahmas are the specialty at these yards. At present 

 the breeding stock consists of some forty hens and pullets 

 and seven cocks. We do not think it necessary for us to 

 say much in their praise ; their record in the various show- 

 rooms throughout the United States says all that is neeessafy 

 as to their quality. 



Our attention was next called to the young chicks, of 

 which there were some ninety or a hundred, from three 

 weeks old to one or two days. The chicks are given free 

 range upon the lawn, some five or six acres or more, with 

 abundant shelter from sun and rain. Besides all these con- 

 veniences there is a large grapery, 20 by 50 feet, on the 

 premises, in which the early hatched broods are kept until 

 the weather is favorable for letting them run. We were 

 much pleased with our visit, and can assure your readers, 

 who fancy good Dark Brahmas, that they will be amply 

 repaid should they make a journey to the above yards. 



Tours truly, Wm. E. Flower. 



jjg^" - While on the Peninsula during the war, an ofScer 

 came across a private belonging to one of the most predatory 

 companies of the Irish Brigade, with the lifeless bodies of a 

 goose and hen, tied together by the legs, dangling from his 

 musket. " Where did you steal those, you rascal?" "Faith, 

 I was marching along with Color-Sargeant Maguire, and 

 the goose — had cess to it I — came out and hissed the American 

 flag." " But the hen, sir ; how about the hen ?" "Thehin, 

 sir, "bless ye, was in bad company, and laying eggs for the 

 ribbles." 



gg^-To Make a Varnish that will imitate Ground 

 Glass. — Mr. J. Garratt has favored us with the follow- 

 ing: — To make a varnish to imitate ground glass, dissolve 

 90 grains of sandarac and 20 grains of mastic in 2 oz. of 

 mashed methylated ether, and add, in small quantities, a 

 sufficiency of benzine to make it dry, with a suitable grain 

 — too little making the varnish too transparent, and excess 

 making it crapy. The quantity of benzine required depends 

 upon its quality — from half an ounce to 1J ounces or even 

 more ; but the best results are got with a medium quality. 

 It is important to use washed ether, free from spirit. — 

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