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and as they did not choose to go, or it was not convenient, 

 they should give their agents, which they made those that 

 did go, credit for doing the best they could in so short a 

 time. My idea is that the American Association should in- 

 vile well-known breeders of each class to give their standard 

 through the journals, and let the public criticise each class, 

 and we would soon find where the just faults are, so as to 

 make up a standard. It will benefit the public and help all 

 that are not well up in the points to see and know what 

 should be. None of us are too wise to learn, and I hope, 

 from the pleasure I take in fowls, that I never will know, 

 as some think they do, all that there is to learn about them 

 — only become more perfect in their management. Let this 

 discussion go on all summer, and then the American Asso- 

 ciation call together all accredited fanciers and breeders to 

 a free and open discussion to frame a standard that we shall 

 all be satisfied with, if that is possible. 



Yours truly, Jno. D. Oakford. 



Baltimore, May 1, 1874. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 

 A LIBERAL OFFER. 



Jos. M. "Wade, Esq. 



I highly value your paper, and desire that it may add 

 many fold to its already large circulation, and in order to 

 lend my aid to that end, I will give two'sittings of Brown 

 Leghorn eggs to any person sending you five new sub- 

 scribers, accompanied with the cash. Eggs from my pedi- 

 gree stock, fresh, and well packed, and delivered to express. 

 Respectfully, Thomas H. Walton. 



Doylestown, Pa., April 13, 1S74. 



I J E JVI S. 



J3J5^° There is a farmer near Flushing who owns a Ken- 

 tucky-bred mule that has, within the last thirty days, kicked 

 in seventeen barn doors, unroofed a dozen chicken coops, 

 and trampled the life out of four of his favorite pigs. He 

 calls it Ben Butler. 



$g^" Among Dr. Livingstone's effects were found a great 

 many letters bearing the dates of 1869, '70, '71, addressed to 

 Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir Henry Eawlinson and others, 

 which had never been sent to these gentlemen. There were 

 also found the Doctor's favorite gold-banded cap, and Mr. 

 Stanley's card. 



$fj&" They have sharp lawyers down East. One of them, 

 marketing for a dinner, asks a poultry dealer, "Is that 

 turkey a young one?" " Tes, sir." "Will you take your 

 oath on it?" "Certainly, I will." Lawyer administers 

 the oath, charges $1 for the service, and takes his pay in 

 poultry. 



fif®* Seth Green is not prepared to say whether salmon 

 trout, which is the lake trout under another name can be 

 successfully propagated in rivers, but thinks the experiment 

 worth trying. He says : " If I had made one success to ten 

 failures since I began to experiment in fish culture the art 

 would be many years in advance of what it is now. I made 

 fifty experiments on a shad fishing box before I achieved a 

 success. That was in the year 1867, and I should have been 

 experimenting until this time if I had not made a success. 

 That box will be the means of stocking all our rivers with 

 shad for all time to come." 



jjfg^- Some boys in Salem recently borrowed two eggs 

 from a neighbor's hennery, and after boiling them in a cal- 

 ico bag returned them to the nest. The boiling process left 

 the eggs covered with the figures of the calico, and the ex- 

 cited owner exhibited these curiosities far and near, and 

 sought in vain for an explanation of this " curious freak of 

 nature." 



Jjgg" The Delaware Peach Crop. — A letter from Wil- 

 mington says : " Should the blossoms all mature, the peach 

 crop will be one of the largest ever dreamed of, and from 

 present indications it will be the heaviest yet marketed. 

 There has been no failure to bloom except in isolated dis- 

 tricts, and these not in the midst of the greatest producing 

 sections." 



8®°" Crueltt'to Animals. — John Morrow, driver of a 

 cinder team at D. O. Hitner's iron furnace, Spring Mills, 

 was arrested by an agent of the Society for the Prevention 

 of Cruelty to Animals, on Monday last, charged with cruelly 

 beating his team with .a club. After a -hearing he was ad- 

 judged guilty and required to pay a fine of $10 and costs by 

 Squire William Haywood, Conshohocken. 



fig?" There is a man in Brown County, Ind., who is most 

 portentiqusly paternal. Thrice has he led a blushing bride 

 to the altar. No. 1 brought him ten pledges; No. 2 brought 

 him also ten ; the present incumbent, eight. The grand 

 total up to August 7, 1873, is therefore twenty-eight. Still 

 this patriarch is ambitious. He sighs for thirty I What a 

 forcible illustration of the unsatisfactory nature of all earthly 

 honors. 



{Jig* A noted hunter of South Hero fears that he has been 

 the victim of a "sell." He has a gun that scatters shot 

 badly. A while ago he saw an advertisement in a city 

 paper offering to send information whereby "scattering " of 

 shot could be effectually prevented on receipt of fifty cents. 

 He sent the money, and in due time was informed that to 

 prevent his gun from " scattering " he should " put in only 

 one shot." 



fl@= Pigeon shooting was recently introduced into Por- 

 tugal. The shooting took place in the royal gardens near 

 the Aguda Palace, Lisbon. The King and the Infante, 

 Dom Augusto, took part in the sport. The Queen did not, 

 although she is an excellent shot. The birds were supplied 

 by Offer, of London, and the honors of the day were carried 

 off by the King and M. Osborne Sawpayo, who shot ties, 

 each killing his three birds.' 



J()@f" The preservation of the American Buffalo is agita- 

 ting the London Telegraph. That journal, making an elo- 

 quent appeal on their behalf, declares that their extermina- 

 tion would be a national calamity to the inhabitants of 

 North America, and suggests that an act of Congress might 

 put an end to their indiscriminate slaughter. The same 

 subject has exercised the minds of our own people. The 

 slaughter of these valuable food animals has been wanton to 

 the degree of crime. But an act of Congress would have 

 but little virtue with those who slay the buffalo in mere 

 " sport," or to satisfy the brute appetite for killing. Given, 

 a herd of buffalo in sight of such a man, with horse and rifle 

 or revolver, and the broad plains before him, witli not a 

 house or another human being to act as witness within a 

 hundred miles, and the buffalo will have but a poor tenure 

 of life, if nothing but an act of Congress stands between him 

 and the average ranger of the plains. 



