u >"'Trr. 
•rmtnrs- i 83 00 PER YEAR 
TSHXiXSi 1 Single /\o., Eight Cents. 
NEW YORK CITY AND ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
_______ .til Fnrlt How, New York. 
OFF IOEB.-J liuiVnlo Si., Rochester. 
YOL. XXIII. NO. 16. 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 11 , 1871. 
WHOLE NO. 1108. 
FLYING TUMBLER PIGEONS, 
The Dark or Rose-winged Flying Tum¬ 
bler Pigeon, an engraving of which is here¬ 
with given, Is considered one of the most 
general favorites of our fancy birds. Its 
easy propagation and sound constitution 
renders it most desirable and suitable for a 
young fancier. The markings on the pinion 
feuthers of this variety are remarkably beau¬ 
tiful, resembling in form a rose just budding 
or showing tlic center—no white should 
show itself elsewhere. These pigeons are 
great favorites in Birmingham, England, and 
are as various in color as the clear-legged 
birds. They are free flyers, and most of 
them rollers or very sharp tumblers, if they 
are allowed to fly. They can be easily 
reared ; all that is necessary is to keep your 
pen clean, give fresh water every day, pleuty 
of peas, wheat, oats, cracked com or barley, 
on which they will thrive well. 
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BLACK AND WHITE SPANISH FOWLS. 
We herewith give an illustration of a trio 
of Black and White Spanish fowls. These 
birds are considered, in some localities, a 
great acquisition to the poultry yard, while 
in others they are predisposed to disease of 
all kinds, more especially of roup. They 
lay a large-sized, meaty egg. The cock of the 
Black variety carries himself very stalely 
and upright, with breast well projecting, and 
tail standing well up. The sickle feathers 
should be perfect aud fully developed, and the 
whole plumage a dense, jet black, with 
glossy reflections in tbe light. 
The hen should he equally dense in color, 
but is much less glossy. Any white or 
speckled feathers, which now and then 
occur, are fatal results. The legs should be 
blue, or dark lead color; any approach to 
white is decidedly bad. Tbe legs of both 
sexes are long, but tbe fowl should neverthe¬ 
less be plump and heavy. The comb must 
be large in both sexes, and of a bright Ver¬ 
million color. That of the hen should fall 
completely over on one side ; but the cock’s 
comb must be perfectly upright. The most 
important point, however, is the white face. 
This should extend as high as possible over 
the eye, and be as wide and deep as possible. 
At the top it should be nearly arched in 
shape, approaching the boltom of the comb 
as nearly as may be, and reaching side¬ 
ways to the ear-lobes snd wattles, meeting 
also under the throat. In texture the face 
ought to he as fine and smooth as possible. 
The ears are large and pendulous, and should 
be as white as the face. Any fowls with 
red specks in the face are considered very 
faulty. The plumage of the White Spanish 
is of snowy whiteness, and resembles some¬ 
what the White Leghorn, which is frequent¬ 
ly mistaken for the White Spanish, In a 
warm climate these fowls may succeed well, 
and prove a profitable variety to breed. 
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POULTRY NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Poultry Experience. 
A. S., (a new subscriber) of Westford, Ct., 
thus gives us his experience with poultry. 
He says“ I started, Jau. 1,1870, with 126 
fowls j 51 old hens and 62 young ones, many 
of them not old enough to lay. I had 13 
roosters. My fowls lived through the winter 
mouths, part of them in an old barn aud the 
remainder in an old hovel, with plenty of 
ventilation. Their principal food was corn, 
with au occasional feed of wheat. I kept an 
account of the eggs laid each day; also the 
number of hens that were killed. The whole 
number of eggs laid in the year was 9,309 ; 
there were raised during the same time, 81 
chickens; killed and sold during the year, 49 
kens. I make my average a little over 100 
eggs to each laying hen during the year, and 
figure up my profits at about $1 per ben. 
Eggs averaged about 28c. per dozen, and 
corn $1.25 per bushel.” 
H. E. F., Luillowville, N. Y., writes:—“ I 
send you, for tbe benefit of tbe readers of the 
Rural New-York¬ 
er, my experience 
with poultry. Here 
are the profits ou 28 
liens and 2 roosters, 
commencing Jan. 1, 
1870: Total number 
of eggs laid, 2,886; 
average price per 
dozen, 23c, — $55.32; 
25 chickens raised, 
worth $12.50; am’nt 
of eggs and chickens, 
$67.82; cost of feed, 
$12.82; profits, $55. 
I give this to show _ . 
that fowls are profit¬ 
able to keep, if they 
farmers say that tow Is 
cross of 
common fowls. They 
are good size, and get 
their growth early, 
and lay the year ^€7 
round. I feed in the 
winter, corn, oats and 
buckwheat, e o o k © d 
ami fed warm. I give lime, burnt bones, 
scraps of meat and water daily. I do not 
feed in the summer months, for my fowls 
have the range of five or ten acres of woods, 
and as much more as they wish.” 
The following account is sent us by J. C., 
Newport, R. I. lie had sixteen hens aud 
011 c cock; breed, Silver Pheasant: 
Number of eggs laid in January. 72 
“ Kohi-nary. US 
•* “ March. 139 
" •* April...aw 
“ “ May. as 
“ “ June.....2iB 
“ “ July.223 
August. 204 
“ September... 171 
“ ** October. 142 
“ November. 45 
“ “ December. 10 
Total amount of eggs. .2,126 
Reoelved for eggs sold.*39.86 
Paid for feed. 10.95 
Making proBts foot up.*28.91 
Or a net gain for each hen of $1.80. He 
says he thinks it pays to keep fowls. 
and now propose to offer a reward to the 
one who can answer my question in the af¬ 
firmative. In September, 1870.1 purchased 
a full-blood Light Brahma hen, one and a- 
half years old. In about two weeks she 
commenced laying, and for six consecutive 
THE D’lATNG 
a'UALiJIAUK, riGEON 
weeks laid one egg per week. The only 
reason I can give for her laying so frequent¬ 
ly was the size of the eggs, which averaged 
exactly 1.10 (one and one-tenth) inches in 
diameter. Ou the 1st of March, 1871, she 
pounds. Any one who can beat that can 
have my hen if they will send me their ad¬ 
dress.— Henry C. Utley, Boonville, Oneida 
Co., W Y. __ 
Impregnation of Eggs. 
Can you tell me how long before being 
laid by a hen the egg 
is impregnated by the 
cock ? Or, in other 
words, taking a hen 
away from one cock 
and placing her with 
another, how long 
thereafter before tbe 
eggs can be regarded 
IL as impregnated by 
H rajk the second cock ?— 
Reader op the Ru- 
Ral, Warren, Ohio. 
Some breeders aver 
—~ that a hen, in being 
transferred from one 
fcfiHjflr 1 - — cock to another, will 
Hr show signs or throw 
mr z birds having more or 
less of the character¬ 
istics of the first cock, 
.. until after the molting 
season ; but we think 
eggs can be used with 
|• safety from one to two 
weeks after being 
\ > ' placed with the sec- 
: ond cock. A few 
mongrels, however, 
" may be the result of 
' this experiment, but 
they should lie weed* 
I ed out, if they do not show the breed desired. 
commenced laying again, and up to the 13th 
had laid ten eggs, which averaged 1.45 
inches in diameter. On Hie 11th she laid an 
egg, the outline of which I send you. It is 
3 inches in circumference and 5^ inches in 
length, On the 18th she laid two eggs, the 
diameter of one being 1.30 Indies in diameter, 
Consumption of Foot! by ili-nlium Fowls. 
“I kind a person says, through your col¬ 
umns, that the Brahma fowls consume 
double the amount of food that common 
fowls do; this is a mistake. I have kept 
both, and find that one eats us much as the 
other. Having kept the Light Brahmas for 
the past three years, I know of no other 
breed of fowls that can compare with them 
in size, hardiness and laying qualities; as a 
table fowl they cannot be surpassed. I 
should advise any new beginner to keep 
nothing but Light Brahmas.”— e. w. s. 
liltick Cochin* vn. Blndc Java*. 
S. A. B., Dutchess Co., N. Y., desiring in¬ 
formation upon the above, writes:—" Will 
some tine, who knows, please state, through 
the Rural New- Yorker, whether Black 
I41.ACK -A.JVJJ WHITE SPANISH FOWLS. 
Who can Beat this* and the other .45 inches, being the smallest Cochiu and Black Java fowls are one and 
I have seen this question asked quite fre- hen’s egg I ever saw. The hen is perfectly the same breed? If not, wbat the difference 
quei tly, in regard to large egg-laying hens, healthy, and weighs between 8 and 9 is, aud their respective merits ?” 
POULTRY CONVENTION, 
To Fix an American Standard ot Excel¬ 
lence. 
[Continued from poire 238. Inst No.] 
Game Bantams. 
The Prebident —We will return to the 
Game Bantams. We acted yesterday on 
size, shape and color, and we changed them 
somewhat; but I think not materially in 
color. What we now want is the points of 
Game Bantams, and their disqualifications. 
William Simpson —I do not see any 
change to make in this ; for Game Baiilams, 
I Should think it was good enough. 
The President —How will you arrange 
the scale of poinls. There is one thing that 
is not here. Smallness of size, which is 
requisite in Bantams, is not in Games. We 
have given to Games “shape of head and 
neck, 15,” &c.; but we have got to make 
that different for Bantams, because small 
size is a requisite for Game Ban lams. How 
would you make that up, Mr. Simpson ? We 
might give 10 to body and wings; condition, 
&c., 15 ; shape and size, 15; shape of tail, 15. 
Mr. Simpson— Suppose you give that 10? 
The President—A nd shape of head and 
neck 15 ? 
Mr. Slmpson— What do you give 10 to iu 
Games ? 
The President —Body and wings. That 
would give you 20 on smallness of size, 
which seems to be the most important thing, 
if you give 15 to color. 
Mr. Simpson— They have got here color, 
more important than smallness of size. 
The President— How will it do to make 
condition 10, and give 25 euch to color and 
size. It seems to me that the smaller size 
you can put on Game Bantams the better? 
Air. Halstead —1 have had several letters 
from persons wanting us to increase the sizo 
for Game Bantams; wanting us to niako 
them twenty-four ounces. It is easy enough 
to raise big Bantams. 
The President. —We can razee our 
Game cocks and make very creditable Ban¬ 
tams of them. Those exhibition birds here 
were cut down from Derby fowls. 
Mr. BimPson—H ow will it do to make 
smallness of sizo 25, color 25, and the rest 10 ? 
Tins President —There are some things 
you want to give point to on Game fowls 
that you can’t on Game Bantams. Color wc 
give only 15 on Game fowls. How will it do 
to make shape of body and wings, and shape 
of tail 20, adding 5 to the shape of body and 
wings? 
Mr. Simpson—W ould you keep smallness 
of size a little larger than color? 
The President—T hat is the way it would 
be in my mind. Here they have color Sand 
smallness of size 2. I have no objection to 
letting it go 25, 25, and the others 10. 
Mr. Simpson— Let us see what Mr. Hal¬ 
stead thinks. Which is the most important 
in Game Bantams — smallness of size or 
color ? 
Mr. Halstead—I think they are very 
nearly equal; but if 1 were to give predomi¬ 
nance to either I would give predominance 
to smallness of size. 
Mr. Simpson—B ut they give smallness of 
size 2 and color 8 here. 
Mr. Halstead —If you make it a dis¬ 
qualification if the bird exceeds 24 ounces 
for the cock, and 16 ounces for the hen, that 
counterbalances it. But the fact is tliat two- 
thirds of the Bantams that received pre¬ 
miums at the Exhibition of 1870 were over 
weight and should have been disqualified. 
Mr. Simpson — How will it do to put 
smallness of size 25 and color 20. 
Mr. Halstead —1 would rather do that 
than the other way. 
Mr. Hale— Where will you put the 5? 
The President—A dd the 5 to shape of 
body and wings,, and make that 15. 
Mr. Hale —That will do. 
Mr. Halstead —That is a great point 
The President— Then you will have to 
cut down ou the others. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in tho year 1871. by D. D. T. Moore, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
