FANCIERS' JOURNAL 



AND 



POULTRY EXCHANGE. 



Vol. I. 



PHILADELPHIA, MAY 28, 1874. 



No. 22. 



PEKIN DUCKS. 



(See Poultry Department.) 



A NATIONAL POULTRY STANDARD. 



"And no discerner 

 Burst wag his tongue in censure." 



Editor Fanciers' Journal. 



I have received a number of letters from different parts 

 of the country, desiring me to express my views about the 

 "American Poultry Standard," as adopted at Buffalo last 

 December, as well as the modus operandi of its getting up. 

 Having written so much on this standard business, I had 

 supposed the poultry people had become familiar with my 

 views, and for this reason I have purposely remained quiet. 

 I rather preferred to watch the current of opinion, and see 

 how the actions of the American Poultry Association wettl-d- 



be received by the poultry fanciers of the country. And I 

 must confess I have not been disappointed in my expectations. 

 Knowing as well as I do that this Association is composed 

 of some of the most intelligent and respectable fanciers, I 

 am the more surprised at the result of their labors, and can 

 account for the inaccuracies and incompleteness of their 

 standard only by the hastiness of their action, or that some of 

 the committees appointed were inadequate to the perform- 

 ance of the work assigned to them. This is the only way I 

 can look at the matter ; and feel bound to condemn in the 

 severest terms the unwarranted assertion that this standard 

 was got up to suit the parties in interest. There surely was 

 nonnecessity :f-ftfr»R-er^a*t4z«U*aBiety to undertake this work, 



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