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OWLS. requiring the exercise of the reason to the fancies which re- 
Best Pair No, 124, E. A. Noble $3 00 | lease the strain from the mind, and admit of an artistic period 
CARRIERS. of loafing. The pigeon fancy is peculiarly adapted to 
Best Pair, No. 118, E. A. Noble 3 00 
Best Collection, Nos. 117, 118, 119, E. A. Noble 5 00 
POUTERS. 
Best Pair, No. 120, E. A. Noble 3 00 
Best Collection, Nos. 120, 122, 156, E. A. Noble 5 00 
FANTAILS. 
Best Pair, No. 301, C. W. Boyce 3 00 
TUMBLERS, 
Best Pair, No. 180, E. A. Noble 38 00 
Best Collection of Pigeons, E. A. Noble 10 00 
Best Collection of Tumblers, Nos. 130, 183, 134, E. 
A. Noble 5 00 
SPECIALS. 
7 Buhl, Ducharme & Co., best collection in Pigeon 
Class, E. A. Noble 10 00 
87 KE. A. Noble, best pair Blue Carriers, E. A. Noble 5 00 
Best Show Dressed Poultry, Wm. Smith 10 CO 









(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
THE PIGEON FANCY. 
Iris a very simple thing to enter the pigeon fancy; the 
intricate problem is how to escape from it when once a fan- 
cier. We have tried to solve it ourselves, but our weakness 
is notorious, and to-day we stand where we did twenty years 
ago, a slave to afancy. Well, it is better to acknowledge 
shortcomings and confess to a human weakness, than to 
surround ourselves with an atmosphere of selfishness and 
vanity, under the impression that strength of character is 
shown by sneering at the little enjoyments of life that tend 
to dispel its gloom, and to nurture in the heart of man the 
affections that bring their own reward, whether exhibited 
towards birds, beasts, or humanity. The great trouble with 
us Americans is time enough is not wasted. The engine is 
kept under full press of steam all the while, until the parts 
are worn out and the whole apparatus goes to pieces. 
That is very well for anything composed of iron, but for a 
machine such as the human frame, where the parts are being 
continually renewed by their own efforts, time must be al- 
lowed for the supply to be procured for the demand, and that 
can only be done by change of occupation from the business 

give the rest so needed. It flows in a quiet channel, and 
soothes the unquiet mind by the gentleness with which alone 
it can be successfully followed. 
After an hour in the pigeon-room the man of business — 
sees clearly, for the first time, the bearings.of his ventures ; 
what was dark to him amid the turmoils of his working 
hours is elucidated by a few minutes’ rest and quiet. The 
literary person, arising from his books, bears with him to his 
loft a dazed brain, and returns with a vivid conception of 
the questions that have resolved themselves in that hour of 
repose. It may be thought these pictures are overdrawn, 
but it is not so; some of the clearest headed men in our city 
are inveterate fanciers. Indeed one of our most noted bank- 
ers scarcely ever decides a knotty question until it passes the 
ordeal of an hour’s consultation with an old white rooster of 
unknown pedigree, but which knows the moment of its mas- 
ter’s return from bank, and awaits his coming at the head of 
the stairs to welcome him with a chuckle or two. 
A physician of our acquaintance has often successfully 
practiced upon his human patients a plan of treatment sug- 
gested by his success with it on his feathered pets. 
As the fancy is so useful, how shall it be entered. 
Have you an unused room at the top of the house, or, 
better yet, a stable loft? First of all tin over the rat holes, 
and make the loft secure from cats, for these two are the 
enemies of the pigeons. Then get a lot of boards one foot 
wide, and long enough to make shelves on the sides of the 
room ; have also a number of these boards sawed into pieces 
sixteen inches long for partitions, which it is best to place 
eighteen inches apart. Having putup your shelves with the 
partitions against the wall, you must nail a strip, four inches 
wide, and as long as the shelves, along the lower ends of the 
partitions to keep the eggs and young from falling out of the 
nests. The birds will build their own nests if short straws 
or hay is kept in the room, or nest-pans may be placed in 
the compartments. 
The floor should be sanded, and if running water cannot 
be had, a fountain should be used. A very good kind issold 
by dealers, or a bottle can be turned into a deep saucer, and 
held in its position by wires, the mouth of the bottle being 
placed just below the edge of the saucer. The pigeons are 
best fed twice a day, and no more given them than they will 
eat at the time. Corn, wheat, and peas are the usual articles 
of food. Gravel and broken mortar are necessary, and a 
lump of rock or alum salt is very conducive to health. 
Having prepared a place for their reception, nothing more 
is necessary than to buy a pair of pigeons. It makes little 
difference what kind you purchase at first; your knowledge 
will have to come by experience, and it will have to be paid 
for. Some of these times we may give you ‘‘ The Confes- 
sions of a Fancier,’”’ and then you will see your experience 
and ours will have been the same. 
Dr. W. P. Moraan. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
CURE FOR CHOLERA. 
I wAvE tried, in many aggravated cases of this disease, 
castor oil, and have found it superior to all other remedies. 
When an astringent is used to no effect, to check the diar- 
rhoea (which is the forerunner of cholera), use the oil abun- 
