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Ely E. Weare, Cedar Rapids, for best pair Black Red 
Game chickens, silver cup, $5. 
QO. C. Leonard, Cedar Rapids, for best pair Colored Dork- 
ings, Farmers’ Union, $2. 
Jan Gkerke, Colony, for best pair Toulouse geese, $5. 
Mrs. 8. G. Livermore, Robin, for best pair Rouen ducks, $5. 
P. Newcomb, Cedar Rapids, for best collection of Pigeons, 
not less than six varieties, Fanciers’ Journal, $2.50. 
O. C. Leonard, Cedar Rapids, for best pair Light Brah- 
mas, by exhibitor under eighteen years of age, Western 
Agriculturist, $1. 
Ernest E. Day, Cedar Rapids, for best pair Buff Cochins, 
by exhibitor under eighteen years of age, Western Agri- 
culturist, $1; for best pair Buff Cochins, exhibited by breeder 
under eighteen years of age, Farmers’ Union, $2. 
C. E. Calder, Cedar Rapids, for best male Mocking Bird, 
$5. ; 
. J. Louis Billau, Cedar Rapids, for best singing Canary, $5. 
Mrs. Jeff. Phillips, for best Bullfinch, $5. 
W.G. F. Benett, Cedar Rapids, for best pair Partridge 
Cochins, exhibited by a breeder under eighteen years of age, 
Farmers’ Union, $2. 


(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
CHICKEN CHOLERA AND ROUP. 
THE writer is an old breeder of poultry in Massachusetts, 
having for more than thirty years been an importer, and 
fancier in rearing the Asiatics, principally; as well as a free 
experimenter with all varieties, from the petite bantam to 
the gigantic Cochin and Shanghai. 
Looking over the pages of the Fanciers’ Journal, I noted 
allusions to what is termed “ chicken cholera,’’ among other 
fowl diseases, with proposals for its prevention or cure. Ido 
not know how many thousands of domestic birds I have 
raised successfully in the past three decades, but certainly a 
great many. I never saw a case of chicken cholera in my 
own experience with fowls, and never had a dozen cases of 
roup in my yards to my knowledge. 
As to the ‘cholera ”’ (so called), I think it must perhaps be 
limited to Pennsylvania or the Middle States; and I judge, 
from the fact that ald the accounts I have ever read (where 
this disease prevailed to any extent), related to the existence 
of this poultry scourge in that region only, we certainly have 
never been troubled with it in New England. I therefore 
conclude that chicken cholera does not occur with us, on 
account, probably, of the difference in climate. We get a 
good many fowls here, in later years, from Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, &.,and I do not see but that they thrive sub- 
sequently with us as well as any birds we import or obtain 
out of New England. I am, consequently, curious to know 
why it is, that in all our numerous purchases from your 
vicinity (and there certainly have been sent hither from your 
part of the country hundreds of fowls) we do not get this 
disease communicated among our poultry. 
As to roup, we do meet with this frequently; but it 
may invariably be accounted for where it occurs with any 
severity. The loose and heedless manner in which our poul- 
try is too commonly cared for; the hiving of any given 
number in close, foul quarters; the exposure to rain, snow, 
cold winds, storms, &c., at all seasons; the neglect to keep 
fowls decently comfortable by night; the absence in their 
limited coops of fresh, clean water daily, which is a desider- 
atum to their health; and other similar neglects occasion 
roup nineteen times out of twenty, when it occurs. 

But these diseases are epidemic, say most breeders. Very 
good—admitted; yet they must have a starting point. If 
you purchase a roupy fowl accidentally, kill and bury him; 
or return him, on sight, whence he came. If you note ‘its 
presence, at once remove the infected fowl from among your 
flock ; and if another shows the symptoms, serve him, or her, 
in the same summary way. That is my course invariably ; 
and I have had very few sick fowls in my extensive poultry 
yards, in the past more than a quarter of a century. 
‘« Expensive work, this!’ says one. Yes, so it is; if you 
suffer it to continue and spread among your flocks. Not 
otherwise, comparatively. It is an evil; but of the two evils 
always choose the least. Roup once under headway in your” 
poultry houses, will kill ten, and miserably befoul, sicken, 
and render useless, for weeks or months, twenty or fifty, 
while you are destroying but one or two. Andif you do not 
believe this, try to cwre this disease after it fairly gets under 
headway among your broods, and see how you come out. 
Fowls that are huddled together in masses, in close, 
filthy quarters at night; that are ill-fed and foul-watered, 
or exposed to cold draughts of winds or storms, will generate 
among themselves roup and lice, with astonishing celerity 
and certainty. Prevent this, by the opposite kind of care 
and shelter, and the breeder, in my opinion, will have little 
or no roup or cholera among his chickens. At least, such is 
the experience of an 
OLD BREEDER. 
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MITCHELL, ONT., CANADA, December 24, 1873. 
Frienp WADE. 
Since last hearing from you, I have had the misfortune 
to be burned out on the 12th of November. My premises 
were totally destroyed by fire. 
I need scarcely say this has to a small extent upset my 
calculations, and for a short time demoralized the ‘* Mitchell 
Columbary.’’ However, nothing daunted, I have again 
built, and my birds are comfortably housed. Most of my 
birds were got out on the same principle that pianos are 
from third floor windows, nothing the worse for it. Many 
died in the bags in which they were carried; some were 
burned after getting them out of the fire; some flew 
into the flames; many perished with the cold, and some of 
the hardier kinds are flying wild to this day. 
My high hopes of a pleasant time as an exhibitor and 
visitor at the approaching Buffalo show, which is within 
easy reach, have crumbled into pieces. I fully intended to 
be there, and to have again greeted the ring friends. I an- 
ticipated meeting yourself among the number. I received 
the Fanciers’ Journal and Poultry Exchange, and am much 
pleased to find that we have now a medium through which we 
can find what we want, and tell what we have, once a week. 
You have my best wishes for its success and prosperity. 
Put me down as a subscriber and find herewith my adver- 
tisement. 
Before closing my letter, allow me to say to those who 
are no doubt surprised at not receiving answers to their let- 
ters, and still more at the non-receipt of birds which have 
been paid for, as ordered, that I sincerely regret the incon- 
venience and unpleasantness it may have occasioned them, 
and ask under the circumstances, their kind forbearance. 
Those who have not countermanded their orders will 
have them filled this week. 
Yours truly, 
BPS Poe: 
