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FANCIBES' JOUENAL AND POULTET 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. 



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ANCIERS'JjoURNAL ANDlpOULTEY (jpXCHANaE, 

 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 SI 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. 



The Bucks County Poultry Association intend to occupy 

 a front seat the approaching season. Its members are making 

 every effort to secure good and honorable judges, completing 

 an elaborate premium list, securing line stock, &c. They 

 also have under consideration the desirability of changing 

 the name of Bucks County Poultry Association to Eastern 

 Pennsylvania Poultry Association, which we think a good 

 idea, if adopted, inasmuch as the Eastern division of Penn- 

 sylvania has not been fully represented (in name at least) as 

 the " "Western " has. The members are in earnest, and we be- 

 lieve the society would be worthy of its contemplated name. 

 Prom present indications, Doylestown and its vicinity will 

 soon become noted for its shows of fowls as well as for its 

 highly successful agricultural exhibitions. We learn that one 

 of the officers, Dr. A. M. Dickie, has just secured what is 

 reported to be the best trio of Dominiques in New England. 



As we go to press, a note is received from Mr. Fry, of 

 Vineland, N. J., a large breeder of fancy fowls, saying that 

 a disease has made its appearance among his Light Brahmas 

 and Buff Cochins, which threatens to carry off the whole 

 flock. So far, those from one to four weeks old only have 

 been attacked. The first symptom is closing of the eyes, 

 which the chick apparently has not the power to open, and 

 stands about moping. The younger ones either die off at this 

 stage or the heads swell and water runs out of the eyes. 

 They refuse to eat (perhaps because they cannot see, which 

 would seem reasonable), dwindle away, and die. So far, such 

 remedies as have been tried have been of no avail. 



If any of our readers have had a similar experience and 

 know of a certain cure, we shall be glad to publish it for the 

 benefit of all concerned. 



To us the affection seems to be of the nature of an influ- 

 enza or cold, which is communicated. As a preventive we 

 should feed those able to eat with coarse ground corn and 

 oat meal, mixed with a little cayenne pepper and salt, well 

 scalded, and given while warm for breakfast and supper. 

 This might also be fed in pellets to those unable to see. We 

 would dissolve in their drinking water a piece of copperas, 

 or about a teaspoonful to two quarts. 



CoF^ESPOflDE^CE. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 



premium for subscribers. 

 Mr. Wade. 



Peeling an interest in Sustaining a poultry weekly, also 

 having a pecuniary interest (having adopted your Journal 

 as an advertising medium), we will make the following offer 

 in addition to the premiums offered by the publisher : To 

 the first person sending you cash for three new subscribers 

 we will send, delivered free at Pitchburg, Mass., Express 

 Company's office, four dozen Ashby nest eggs, or one sit- 

 ting Aylesbury Duck eggs, or one sitting Partridge Cochin 

 eggs, or one sitting White Leghorn eggs. Por description 

 of all the above, see advertisement in this Journal. 



A. & L. Demmon. 

 Pet Farm, Ashby, Mass., May 1, 1874. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 



Jos. M. Wade, Esq. 



Dear Sir : Inclosed please find check to pay year's sub- 

 scription for Journal; balance place to my credit. I fully 

 intended sending you advertisement, but it would only add 

 to my trouble, as orders are coming in faster than I can 

 supply them. I am glad to inform you that the fancy is 

 spreading in Canada, and that the majority of my orders 

 are Canadian. I am very much pleased with the Journal, 

 and wish it every success, hoping it may go on and prosper 

 in your hands. Will not fail to send advertisement in due 

 time. Yours truly, Daniel Allen. 



Galt, Ont., Canada, April 28, 1874. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 

 NEST EGGS. 



No one thing in the poultry business has caused us more 

 trouble and vexation than nest eggs. Tears ago we used a 

 common egg, and every little while got a sound rating from 

 our customers for leaving them an egg addled or with a 

 half-hatched chick in it. Then we tried old eggs plainly 

 marked with ink, and the shells would wear thin and break, 

 and so give the hens a bad habit. Next came glass eggs, 

 but they were heavy and hard, and the hens' eggs were fre- 

 quently broken by contact with them, so that the hens 

 acquired the habit of eating them, and so destroyed the use- 

 fulness of the entire flock. We have been tiying the no 

 nest egg system this season, but the biddies are continually 

 seeking new nests, and as soon as the snow is oft' the ground 

 lay everywhere but where you want them to. But now we 

 feel like exclaiming Eureka ! We are using with great satis- 

 faction the Ashby nest eggs, made of a hard wood, but very 

 light and elastic, and seem to be " about the thing." No 

 hens' eggs are broken, and there is no breaking the nest 

 eggs. E. S. Demmon. 



Fitchburg, Mass., May 2, 1874. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 

 THE NEW STANDARD. 



Mr. Jos. M. Wade. 



Dear Sir: There are but few who are satisfied, and per- 

 haps justly so, with the new standard, but I think that they 

 are too strong in their condemnation of those that labored 

 at Buffalo to get up the standard. They forget in their 

 condemnation, I think, that they were all invited to attend, 



