FANCIERS' JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 



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PREMIUM. 



Joseph M. Wade. New Yokk, June 8, 1874. 



Dear Sir : Desiring to see the Fanciers' Journal in the 

 hands of all pigeon fanciers and others, but especially the 

 younger portion of them, I make the following offer, if it 

 will aid in any way in the circulation of the Journal : I will 

 present to any one (all charges paid), who will send you 

 the names, &c, of ten new subscribers, a pair of Black 

 Baldheads, from birds imported or bred here ; or, in case the 

 party would prefer cash, I will give the equivalent, $10. 

 Tou will please inform me when you have received the 

 names, &c. 



The subscriptions must be for one year; this offer begin- 

 ning with July 1, 1874, and runs one year from that date. 

 Tours truly, H. A. Brown. 



[The above is a liberal offer, and we cheerfully give it a 

 place in our columns. Mr. Brown has been a true friend to 

 the Journal from the first, and has sent us many subscribers. 

 —Ed.] 



Jos. M. Wade. Esq. Warner, N. H., June 10, 1874. 



Dear Sir: I wish you would give, through the columns 

 of the Fanciers' Journal, the usual method of sending (by 

 express) a hen with chickens. I have fifty to ship about 

 July first — all to the same party'. Shall I put each hen and 

 her chicks together ; or all the hens in one box, and the 

 chicks in another? An early answer will be of great bene- 

 fit to me ; and, I presume, to many others. 



Very respectfully, H. S. Willis. 



[ We have never had occasion to ship a hen and chickens, 

 but should much prefer to put them in the same box, with a 

 wire or lath partition to separate them ; and yet let them 

 see each other. Put the drinking cup in the partition so it 

 can be used from either side — the same with feed-box. 

 Make good provision for water, or they will suffer much 

 this hot weather. — Ed.] 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 

 HYBRIDS. 



Editor Fanciers' Journal. 



My Dear Sir : Accept my thanks for your kindness in 

 sending me the copy of the Journal of Horticulture, con- 

 taining Mr. Hewitt's correction of the typographical error 

 occurring in my article on Hybrids. I should dislike to 

 misrepresent Mr. Hewitt. The sentence should have read 

 the Pheasant cock, instead of the Golden Pheasant cock. 



Mr. Hewitt is not mistaken when- he says that the Golden 

 Pheasant cock will not cross " with any description of our 

 domestic poultry," for my friend, Dr. C. Lyon (the gentle- 

 man I referred to in my article), showed me a Golden 

 Pheasant cock which actually mated and crossed with a 

 domestic hen, when on his father's plantation, but the 

 hybrid did not live to maturity. Strange freaks of nature 

 are occasionally exhibited under favorable circumstances, 

 when patient observers look unsuccessfully for a life time 

 to accomplish the result which has occurred by accident. 

 Yours, very truly, James S. Bailey, M.D. 



that " sailor from luckipon." 

 Mr. Editor: 



Is it not about time for " the sailor " who came to New 

 York, in 1849, first, and in 1869, twenty year6 afterwards, 

 to turn up again, somewhere, with some Burrampooters fowls 

 from Duckyport, in lngy, or elsewhere ? We should not won- 

 der if this "ancient mariner" should now be trotted out 

 again, in view of the " Brahma-Pootra" controversy, latterly 

 revived, though all the parties had forgotten in 1852, and up 

 to 1869, this sailor's name, or never knew it. 



Hartford, Conn., January 5, 1874. BEGUM, Jr. 



Sp/iA^LL Pet Dep^jiwe^j. 



-6®"" All communications and contributions intended for this depart- 

 ment should be addressed to HOWARD I. IRELAND, 318 Stevens Street, 

 Camden, N. J., or care of Joseph M. Wade, 39 North Ninth St., Philada. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 



PETS AND CHILDREN. 



The care of pets has a beneficial influence upon the health 

 and character of children. In attending to them, the time 

 which most probably would be spent in idleness, or worse 

 still, among bad associates, is occupied in healthful and in- 

 structive amusement Children always learn about the habits, 

 peculiarities, &c, of the animals which they keep as pets. 

 And a very dull boy it is, who having rabbits will not eagerly 

 read and remember everything he can find concerning them. 

 " From little beginnings great ends are produced," and the 

 love for nature's beauties has often sprung from the keeping 

 of pets. Many great naturalists will say this. 



I admit it is very inconvenient to have one's house filled 

 with old bird-cages, squirrel, and white mice boxes ; the yard 

 covered with rabbit-hutches or bantam runs; the garret 

 turned into a pigeon loft, or the choicest spot in the lawn 

 occupied by a fish pond. But we must remember our chil- 

 dren's characters are now forming, and that it rests with us, 

 in a good measure, whether they shall contract habits bene- 

 ficial or injurious. We must keep in mind the fact, that 

 habits formed in youth, good or bad, will cling to them 

 throughout their future lives ; and if we prevent our chil- 

 dren from forming evil associates we do a good for them for 

 which they will bless us in future years. And when your 

 son rushes into the room with a rabbit under each arm, and 

 a pair of white mice in his pocket, with eyes beaming with 

 pride and love, and cheeks made rosy by exercise, and lay his 

 pets before us for our approval, instead of greeting him 

 with a cold glance and the pets with a look of disgust, pour 

 words of encouragement into his ears, and kindly pat the 

 little creatures, thanking God that it is not the wine-bottle 

 or the card-pack with which he is so infatuated. 



One bad habit in particular, incident to childhood, the care 

 of pets will overcome; a habit which will have to be shaken 

 orf before they can enter upon the stern duties of business life. 

 I mean late rising, which, if allowed to get a firm hold, 

 would deprive them of one-fourth of their worldly lives. If 

 you have a son upon whom this habit has fixed itself, buy a 

 pair of rabbits, construct a hutch for them, and tell your boy 

 if he will rise every morning at five o'clock and feed the 

 rabbits they are his, if not you know a boy who would be 

 glad to do so. Most likely he will joyfully accede to your 

 request. By degrees the habit of late rising will be conquered, 

 and a new one grafted in its stead, worth to him many hun- 

 dred pairs of rabbits. 



Upon the health of sickly and delicate children the habit 

 of early rising and caring for pets has a most salutary influ- 

 ence, and instilling in their minds many ideas of much moral 

 worth. 



Before allowing children to keep pets of any sort, it is 

 better to exact from them a promise that they will be punc- 

 tual in attending to the wants of the little animals placed 

 so entirely in dependence on them for food and attention. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 



TO TRAIN WHITE MICE. 



These little Albinos of the mouse tribe may be taught 

 many tricks and antics. Male mice are preferred to female 



