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FANCIER S’ 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. 
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Meaty. — Our readers who are conversant with the 
rhapsodical and unique “poetical” stylo of the eccentric 
writer, Walt Whitman, will hugely enjoy the capital hits 
embodied in the “Song the Brahma Sings,” on page 420 
of our Journal this week. This travestie is full of “ points,” 
and it will amuse our readers immensely, who can appreciate 
this “ pome ” of original heterogeneous, comical metres. 
Swine and Poultry Journal. — We have received a 
four-page prospectus of a journal to be issued in July by our 
friend, C. J. Ward, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It seems to us 
a happy combination of subjects. Both interests are very 
large in the Northwest and West. This journal is destined 
to do much good for the fancy, as we are sure it will make 
many converts. Swine breeders, who have never been fan- 
ciers, will subscribe for it, and as a matter of course read the 
poultry department and become fanciers. We see no reason 
why the above journal should not be a success. It has our 
best wishes. 
Mr. R. W. Shipman writes, that, after considerable ex- 
perience with cholera among his fowls, which carried off 
large numbers, he concludes that prevention is better than 
cure. Wheat he finds a surer corrective and promoter of a 
healthy digestion, as a change in food, than any other 
remedy, but, at the same time, green food may be dispensed 
with. 
We would call the attention of all interested in the New 
Standard and American Poultry Association to a letter, un- 
der the head of correspondence, received from Mr. Philander 
Williams, after our forms were made up for the press. It 
will be found to fully explain the call of the President for 
the meeting on the coming 22d day of July, at the Metro- 
politan Hotel, New York. We hope the attendance will be 
large. 
W k are informed that the Zoological Gardens, of this city, 
will be opened to the public on the 1st of July. The gar- 
dens are in good order, and an excellent collection of animals 
and birds are on hand and many more are on the way from 
the Pacific coast, which were furnished by their agent in 
Australia and the East India Islands. 
PiqEOfJ DEp^J|V!Ep]y. 
(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
THE CARRIER. 
DR. W . P. MORGAN. 
(Continued from page 407.) 
sist strongly upon this, for the fact that too many persons 
are drifting into pigeon keeping with the expectation of 
accomplishing great things from numberless strains, who, 
later on, become disgusted by finding their birds degenera- 
ting upon their hands, and who are therefore disposed to 
give up the fancy, and censure fanciers for disappointments 
that are ascribable to their own ignorance. 
This is peculiarly the case with the high fancy birds, Al- 
monds, Pouters, Carriers, and Barbs, and no matter how 
perfect the individual birds (furnished by the dealer) may be, 
their young will not be so good as themselves until a strain 
is established and carefully guarded. 
The Carrier should be a large bird ; large in body, large 
in limb, and large in presence; a bird with style, of the 
quality noble. Not a bird deformed by an immense beak or 
distorted wattle, but a bird of proportions. Who cares for 
a long hook piercing a wrinkled bunch of excrescence, at- 
tached by a short neck to a runtish body ? Wring off such 
heads and feed the bodies to the dogs, and rid the earth at 
once of two-thirds of the Carriers now encumbering it. We 
want the blooded style, the thoroughbred, not the lunk 
head, with its heavy Flanders look. Let the runt retain 
that; it is bred for the pot and deserves all the weight that 
can be attached to it. Who of us would choose a woman 
whose ankles were beef to the heel ? Not one ; and we 
should be as well educated on the symmetry of Carriers. 
The body of the Carrier should be large, broad across the 
shoulders, the muscles prominent and firm; the feathering 
should be hard as that of the game fowl ; the bow of the 
wing must be prominent, the flights long and smooth with 
a wide stretch, say thirty-five inches, and should lap above 
the tail; the leg must look large in proportion to the body, 
the bird standing high ; the feet must be red, the toes long 
and well spread; the neck long and thin, closely covered by 
small hard feathers ; the head is of itself a study, most of 
the properties are claimed to lie there, and so much attention 
has been devoted to it that the equally valuable size, shape, 
and style have almost ceased to exist. The result is that 
any dumpy mass of feathers with a fungus, and a hook at 
one end is called a Carrier, and takes rank by reason of the 
length of its hook. To my mind this is a very great mistake, 
and a large, firm, rcachy bird, with a bold, fearless style, 
should always take precedence of a dump, no matter if there 
is a difference of a sixteenth of an inch in beaks or wattle. 
The properties of the head lie in the beak, wattle, eye, 
and skull. Much attention has always been paid to the 
beak, and there are many persons who are called beak fan- 
ciers, because they set more store by that point than any 
