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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. 



*jjf ANCIERS' jf OURNAL AND fpOULTRY (jpxCHANGE, 

 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 



Per Annum to Canada, 2 70 



Per Annum to England, 3 54 



ADVERTISEMENTS 



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

 inserted at 10 cents per line, set solid ; if displayed, 15 cents per line of 

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

 inch of space. 



1 inch of space, set solid ?1 20, displayed SI 80 



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



1 page, 216 lines, solid 21 60, " 32 40 



Advertisements from unknown parties must be paid for in advance. 



Sherman & Co., Printers, Philadelphia. 



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A LIBERAL OFFER. 



Friend Wade. 



Not to be outdone by any one in the desire to disseminate 

 a healthy interest in profitable poultry, I make the follow- 

 ing offer : To every one ordering eggs from my yards to the 

 amount of $5 only, or fowls to the amount of $10, I will 

 present a year's subscription to the Fanciers' Journal, free ! 

 Also, to every one sending you three subscriptions to the 

 Fanciers' Journal I will send a nest of choice eggs, free ! 

 And to all sending stamps to pay postage I will furnish 

 sample copies of the Journal, free ! 



I will say in conclusion that I am greatly pleased with 

 the Journal, and consider that it has placed itself in the 

 front rank of the journals devoted to poultry interests, both 

 as an advertising medium and as an educator of those who 

 desire to improve the poultry interests of the country. Of 

 one hundred and sixty letters that I received in March, over 

 one hundred mentioned Fanciers' Journal. 



Very truly yours, J. F. Ferris. 



Stamford, Conn. 



J. F. Ferris, Stamford, Conn., the wide-awake fancier, 

 has purchased of Charles H. Crosby, Danbury, Conn., his 

 extensive breeding stock of Buff and Partridge Cochin 

 Fowls. See his advertisement elsewhere. 



To those desiring fine Games and Game Bantams, also 

 Black Bose-comb Bantams, we would call attention to the 

 advertisement, in this number, of William B. Atkinson. 



Best Book for Everybody. — "The new illustrated edi- 

 tion of Webster's Dictionary, containing three thousand 

 engravings, is the best book for everybody that the press has 

 produced in the present century, and should be regarded as 

 indispensable to the weli-regulated home, reading-room, 

 library, and place of business." 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 

 Mr. Editor. 



V. M. F., in No. 17 of the Fanciers' Journal, page 261, 

 describes a disease which affected two of his fowls, which I 

 think is apoplexy, from a description of the disease given 

 by Dr. P. Gardner in the Poultry World for March, Volume 

 III, page 38, where he also gives his mode of treatment, viz.: 

 Bromide of potash, in ten-grain doses, three times a day. I 

 have tried the above-named remedy, and think it good. 



K. G. E. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 



Jos. M. Wade, Esq. 



Dear Sir: The location of our room was printed wrong 

 in your issue of the 20th. It should have been located at 

 217 Westminster Street, Boom 6, in place of 207 Westmin- 

 ster Street. By making the correction yoa will oblige. 



Tours truly, J. T. Peckham. 



Providence, April 25, 1874. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 

 grayling. 

 Fanciers' Journal. 



I have returned from the Au Sable Eiver, Michigan, 

 with live Grayling for breeders. This is the first lot caught 

 for that purpose, and the only ones at present in private 

 ponds. This fish does not spawn until May (this year at 

 least), notwithstanding all writers say their breeding season 

 is in February and March. It is possible that mine may 

 not spawn at all, on account of change, rough usage, etc., 

 when so near spawning. I have sent some dead ones to the 

 Smithsonian Institute to make plaster casts from. They 

 are the most beautiful fish short of the tropics. 



Fred. Mather. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 

 Jos. M. Wade, Esq. 



Dear Sir : You will see by the report I sent you a few 

 days ago, speaking of the Black-breasted Bed Game with 

 yellow legs, that they were ruled out by the committee in 

 awarding premiums. This was a mistake. The following 

 is a list of premiums awarded to this class : 



Black-breasted Red Game — Fowls — 2d, George W. Adams, 

 Providence. Chicks — 1st, J. H. Hammitt, Newport, B. I.; 

 2d, L. E. Gray, Foxlow, Mass.; 3d, T. A. Todd, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



Brown Red Game — Fowls — 1st, L. E. Gray, Foxlow, Mass. 



Ginger Red Game — Chicks — 1st, Geo. W. Adams, Provi- 

 dence ; 2d and 3d, T. A. Todd, New Haven. 



Yellow Duckwinq Game — Fowls — 3d, Otis Monroe, Bristol, 

 B. I. Chicks— 2d, J. H. Hammitt, Newport, R. I. 



Black Game — Chicks — 1st, L. P. Bullas. 



White Game— Chicks— 2d and 3d, J. G. Moffit, Paw- 

 tucket, B. I. 



Pile Game— Chicks— 1st, 2d, and 3d, T. A. Todd. 



C. G. Sanford, 

 Assistant Recording Secretary. 

 Providence, E. I., April 17, 1874. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 

 SMALL EGGS. 



J. M. Wade. 



1 send you by this mail a box containing two diminutive 

 eggs, laid by a Spangled Bantam pullet belonging to John 

 H. Long, of this place. They are the average size ; one 



