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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' Journal and JpouLTRY (^change, 



JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 

 Published Weekly at 39 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia. 



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from different parts of the United States, amounting in all 

 to $1450 in cash, or its equivalent in fine fowls or other 

 property. The early appearance of premium lists is what 

 we have advocated for years. No breeder can find fault 

 with this Association, for he has the premium list before 

 him previous to the early hatching season. We hope every 

 fancier likely to exhibit will send for a copy of this pre- 

 mium list, and render all the aid in his power to this young 

 but energetic society. Entries for competition close Jan- 

 uary 9th, 1875. For further information, address Fred. 

 Fox, Secretary, Portland, Maine. 



POULTRY PEDIGREE BOOK. 



The Poultry World (American) for March, announces a 

 Poultry Pedigree Book, resembling the stud or herd books 

 of cattle breeders. It will, no doubt, pay the projectors 

 well, each entry being charged twenty-five cents, and the 

 notion being just consonant with present American ideas on 

 the subject of poultry. The promoters are smart men, and 

 probably understood this. We have no doubt that a couple 

 of thousand dollars will be readily paid in this way, about 

 which time it will be discovered that "pedigrees " of fowls 

 are no good. — Fanciers' Gazette. 



AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 



We have several articles this week bearing on the doings 

 of the -American Poultry Association concerning the re- 

 vision of the Standard of Excellence at the Buffalo Conven- 

 tion, but in consequence of the writers withholding their 

 names we shall not publish the articles at present. It is ab- 

 solutely necessary that our contributors give their names, 

 not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. As 

 the doings of the American Poultry Association concern 

 the interests of every fancier and breeder of fowls, it is but 

 fair that an honest criticism should be allowed by those who 

 could not be present at the Convention ; but we hope it will 

 be done in a generous and impartial manner, and, while 

 criticising, not forgetting that it is also necessary to point 

 out a remedy. The Convention was composed of good men, 

 and we are satisfied that they came together, at much ex- 

 pense and loss of time, with a view of doing what they 

 believed to be for the good of all fanciers. There may have 

 been a few that were headstrong, but a large majority were 

 well-meaning men and meant to do what was right. If 

 they failed to do their duty, as it is understood by a majority 

 of fanciers, they will cheerfully reconsider their doings at 

 Buffalo and Boston. There is no necessity for secession, 

 "breaking up the Association," or a new convention outside 

 of the Association, which asks for a fair, honest criticism, 

 so that its future acts may be more in keeping with the 

 wishes of the poultry fanciers generally. 



(&avvt$\w\xtlence. 



MAINE HEARD FROM. 



We have just received the Premium List of the Maine 

 Poultry Association, which is a book of 32 pages, and cover ; 

 well gotten up, and very complete. The first premium is 

 three dollars ; second, two dollars ; third, diploma ; fourth, 

 highly commended. The society offers 61 specials, 54 of 

 which are silver cups. The remaining 7 range from three 

 dollars to ten dollars each. In addition to the above are 

 159 specials many of which are offered by leading fanciers 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 

 Mr. Editor. 



I was pleased to see the proposition of your correspondent, 

 G. P. Burnham, in your last number, in regard to holding 

 a new convention upon the subject of fixing up a revised 

 standard upon our poultry matters in this country. 



I was greatly disappointed at the book just issued by the 

 National Society at Buffalo, and I think we ought to get 

 together all the friends of the poultry interest in a body at 

 an early day, and adjust this long vexed question in a rea- 

 sonable and satisfactory way, as applicable to the needs and 

 tastes of American breeders and fanciers at large. 



There are a great many errors to correct in this last new 

 standard, and it was plainly got up altogether in too much 

 of a hurry. It costs too high ; also, I would like a hundred 

 copies of a good standard to distribute among my patrons 

 and friends. If it had been put at a fair price many others 

 would have bought it with a similar view. 



I do not like the monopoly of this thing either, any more 

 than do others of your readers and correspondents, and I 

 am glad our old breeders have taken hold of this mistake in 

 earnest. Capt. Burnham's proposal is a good move. For 

 one I say amen to it, and I believe such a convention as he 

 advises would be just the thing to set us right. 

 Respectfully yours, 



F. B. Bradford. 



Qdincy, Mass. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 



Mr. Wade. 



I would like to inquire through the Fanciers' Journal 

 whether Game hens are considered good sitters ? I have 

 tried them at different times, and have found them to be 

 very inferior. But the principal fault was that of eating 

 their eggs, some of which they attempted, having in tbem 

 chickens nearly ready to hatch. Is it a frequent fault 

 common to this breed, or is there some remedy? 



William D. Zell. 



