90 

Hence we feel the necessity of being strictly honest with 
our fellow-men, and when a breeder and shipper gulls his 
customers with inferior birds, he should not only be exposed, 
but held responsible by the high tribunals of the law for 
swindling; then the rascality of unprincipled parties will 
give way for the dealings of men who love truth and honor 
above lies and littleness. HeeC. 
N. J. C. Srock Farm. 

(Kor Fanciers’ Journal.) 
INCUBATION. 
Mr. Epitor. 
By your permission, I will pen a few thoughts which 
occurred during an investigation into some of the mysteries 
of producing animal life by heat alone, when properly ap- 
plied to the fertile eggs of oviparous animals. It is won- 
derful to note from day to day the life-giving changes which 
take place in the egg, from the increased lines of blood 
which radiate over the yolk, to the end of incubation, 
when the young animals by expansion, and the aid of its 
horn-like mandible, bursts its way out of its life-giving 
prison, with all the lineaments of its parents. And how ex- 
actly it can be made to resemble its parents is now being 
understood by scientific breeders. But my object is not now 
to discant upon that phase of the subject, so I will propose 
a conjecture which was in my mind when I wrote the cap- 
tion of this short article, viz.: suppose, as in gardening, we 
should construct a hotbed upon the very same principle as 
for sprouting vegetables, regulating its temperature by the 
knowledge of the degree of heat required for hatching eggs, 
which should be about 90° Fahrenheit, then place the eggs in 
the hotbed, slightly covering them with some feathery sub- 
stance under the glass, with air enough for ventilation, not 
forgeting to turn the eggs once in every twenty-four hours. 
I do not claim that this suggestion will prove successful, 
but I believe it will, and trust that some one better situated 
than myself will make the experiment, and report his or 
her success or failure as the case may be. Surely if it 
should succeed, and I cannot doubt that it will, it would be 
a means of obtaining March chickens in abundance, from 
our non-sitting breeds of poultry, which are now so fash- 
ionable..- iVi-eMie 
DUFFIELDS, WEST VA. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
Mr. Epiror. 
In No. 4 of the Fancier’s Journal, which you had the 
kindness to send me, I discovered that the dream of my 
life’s fancy is in process of realization in your City Zoolog- 
ical Gardens! Yes, verily. In the United States, after the 
. expiration of its first century, by private enterprise, is to have 
what has been the charm of all the older nations, a collec- 
tion of God’s animate creatures. An enterprise so grand 
and so glorious (humanly speaking), ought to be the work 
of the Government; or at least to be fostered by a great 
municipality. New York City, in creating its Park, has 
and is progressing nobly in the proper direction; but I 
think it does not contemplate more than a collection of ani- 
mals for exhibition. If I can collect from your first ex- 
position of the contemplated enterprise in your city, it will 
aim to utalize the ‘ beasts of the field, and the fowls of the 
air,’’ which the Divine Master has distributed over the 
earth for man, by acclimating and domesticating the various 
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a 
seemingly purposeless. We are informed by that eminent 
naturalist, Cuvier, that there yet exists four untamed mem- 
bers or species of the horse genera. Only two of the six 
known species having been domesticated, viz.: the horse 
and the ass. One of the species, the zebra, has been par- 
tially domesticated. Of the bovine genera a much larger 
number of species still roam over the vast areas of Asia and 
Africa, the cow being all of the genera fully appreciated by 
man, unless we include the buffalo, which some of the 
dutch colonists of Africa have partially domesticated. Of 
sheep and goats, one or two species each have been brought 
under dominion, whilst of deer not one species, and there 
are over forty, if I mistake not, many of whom would be 
great accessions if domesticated. 
of the feather and plume, but very few have been brought 
under domestication. Bravo for Philadelphia. V. M. F. 

(For Fanciers’. Journal.) 
ROUP TREATMENT. 
Epiror FANCIERS’ JOURNAL. 
Dear Sir: Will you allow me space in your valuable 
paper for explanation of and experience with this dreaded 
disease called Roup. This disease makes its appearance in 
different characteristics, generally in the West. You can 
discern the appearance of this disease by the relaxed condi- 
tion of your fowls. A watery substance first makes an ap- 
pearance in the eyes of the fowls, and afterwards a hard 
mucus appears in the roof of the fowls’ mouths. To cure 
this disease I find it very simple and easily accomplished. 
When you first see symptoms of roup, at once catch your 
fowls, remove the hard unmerciful-smelling mucus from 
their mouths, then take a small dish, one that will hold half 
a pint of water; into this put half a pint of rain-water and” 
two tablespoonfuls of genuine cider vinegar. With this 
wash with a linen rag, mouth, and eyes, and nostrils, three 
times per day, for two or three days. Keep your fowls in- 
closed in a dry warm place. On the third or fourth day you 
will find your patient quite well. I find this treatment has 
saved more poultry for me than twenty other remedies I 
have used the past two years. Give it a trial. 
Jas. M. WILLS. 

— Toe + 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
EXTRAORDINARY ATTACHMENT. 
THERE are so many remarkable stories told of the attach- 
ment of cats, dogs, &c., that I feel inclined to tell one that 
is just as remarkable, and just as hard to be believed, al- 
though strictly true. It is of a small, white Bantam chicken, 
which had been given when a little chick to a little girl who 
was lame, and whose health compelled her to spend most of 
her time on acouch. Her family were poor, and the little 
chicken was her substitute for dolls and toys. It staid with 
her on the couch, followed her wherever she went, ate from 
her hands, made its nest and laid its eggs by her side on the 
couch. The little girl was taken suddenly ill and died. The 
chicken refused all food after she could not feed it, and in a 
few days was dead too; dying of grief, who can doubt. I 
had these facts from the child’s mother, and know her to be 
truthful. W. W. Lewis. 
LEXINGTON, VA., January 6th, 1874. 

bes Sportsmen who have returned from Virginia and 
North Carolina, state that game was never before in this 
generation so plentiful, Deer, ducks and wild turkeys abound. 
Of the untamed beauties : 
