PAN CIE RS@ROURNAL AND POULTRY BXCHANGE. 
A CODE ON POULTRY KEEPING. 
SHOWING HOW EVERY PULLET MAY BE MADE TO RETURN A PROFIT OF 
1£ IN 18 Mos. (SEE NO 1.) 
(Continued from page 12.) 
Let a farmer care for his cows and pigs as he does for his 
poultry, and he will find they also ‘‘don’t pay;” let him 
house them in a confined, ill-ventilated house, clean them 
once a year, and feed them occasionally upon a little light 
corn, or other refuse, if such is on hand, and if not, let them 
‘do for themselves,’’ and at the end of twelve months (if his 
cows and pigs are alive at all) let him say if they pay him 
better than his fowls.—Stephen’s Book of the Farm. 
As cockerels are more profitable than pullets to fatten, 
owing to their hardiness and extra size, it will be well to 
hatch as many of this sex as possible for this purpose. 
The flesh of large fowls may be as delicate, juicy, and 
well-flavored as that of smaller. breeds. It is as absurd to 
say larger breeds must necessarily be inferior, as to say that 
the splendid prize breeds of Leicester sheep, or shorthorn 
oxen, must be coarse owing to their size. The best-shaped 
and most delicately-flavored chicken I ever ate was a cross 
between a large Brahma cock and Dorking hen, and weighed 
at the age of four months six pounds. 
Select only those eggs pointed at the ends, avoiding any 
that have a tendency to roundness of form; also examine 
the position of the air cavities in the eggs, and only retain 
those that have them placed directly at the apex of the 
blunt or larger end, avoiding all that have them placed at 
all to the side. In this way eight eggs out of ten will pro- 
duce cockerels.—Columella, Mascal, Stephanus, Réawmer, 
Parmentier, Stephens, Sketchley, Sc. 
In hatching chickens for the purpose of producing eggs, 
it is very important to select eggs only from those hens that 
have proved themselves prolific egg-producers. Hgg-laying 
is often as much a specialty of individual birds as it is of 
particular breeds. In the same way the offspring of individ- 
ual cows celebrated as milkers very generally inherit their 
-good qualities. 
It is always well to keep a few large full-feathered Cochins 
for hatching purposes, they being only too often ready to 
undertake the task. They are also the best for hatching 
duck’s eggs. 
. It is very important, and a fact not at all generally known, 
that a hen may be induced to sit at amy season, by confining 
her in a dark room in a covered basket, only large enough 
to contain her nest. She must be kept warm, and fed on 
stimulating food.—MM. Bosc, Parmentier. 
A passing remark as to ducks will not be out of place. 
Neyer be so foolish or extravagant as to keep a drake and 
two ducks (as many people do) throughout the year, for the 
purpose of supplying a brood or two of ducks in the spring. 
These three ducks will cost you, through the twelve months 
you keep them, not less than 23d. per week each (probably 
more). This in twelve months will amount to £1 12s, 6d. 
The proverb says: ‘‘ Fools build houses for wise men to live 
in,” so let fools keep ducks to supply the wise with eggs. A 
sitting of eggs can generally be procured for 1s. per dozen. 
Ducks are most voracious, and there is no satisfying their 
craving appetites. The best eggs to procure are the Brazil- 
jan and Rouen. From my own observation of them in 
Brazil, I can speak as to their being ready for the table at 
ten or twelve weeks old. 
In my calculations of profit I have taken no account 
whatever of the great benefit obtained by fowls from the 
destruction of innumerable worms, grubs, flies, beetles, in- 
sects, &c., and which Mr. Mechi (no mean authority) con- 
siders invaluable. Nor have I taken into consideration the 
value of their feathers when killed, or of the (occasional 
only, it may be) high and fancy price that may be obtained 
in disposing of one’s best birds for stock purposes, as well as 
eggs for hatching; and, indeed, where really good stock is 
known to be kept, applications for such will soon prove nu- 
merous; and this last item is often found important and 
highly remunerative, and it in no way interferes with the 
general routine of market business. 
K. B. EpwaRrpDs. 


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THE BUCKS COUNTY POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 
Organized Noy. 15, 1878. Officers for the year 1873-4. Pres- 
ident: A. M. Dickie, Doylestown. Vice-Presidents: EH. T. 
Ochs, Quakertown; E. G. Harrison, Hulmeville. Corres- 
ponding Secretary: T. H. Walton (P. O. Box 130), Doyles- 
town. Recording Secretary: Theodore P. Harvey, Doyles- 
town. Treasurer: H. M. Twining, Dowlestown. Executive 
Committee: A. M. Dickie, Doylestown; E. T. Ochs, Quaker- 
town; EH. G. Harrison, Hulmeville; T. H. Walton, Theo. P. 
Harvey, H. M. Twining, W. T. Rogers, W. T. Hisenhart, 
Charles Rotzell, Wm. Frankentield, Doylestown; Ingham 
Smith, Doylestown Township ; John J. Moore, Quakertown ; 
Wm. H. Gruver, Springfield; Charles D. Mathews, New 
Britain; John Kitchen, Solebury; Edwin Johnson, Upper 
Makefield; Isaac Dudbridge, Warwick. 

POULTRY SHOWS. 
Maryland State Poultry Association, Baltimore, January 
Ist and 2d. Charles Schwinn, Seeretary. 
Maine, Portland, January 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th. 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, January 26th to 31st. 
Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, Jan. 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th. 
A. A. Miller, Secretary. 
Pennsylvania, Doylestown, first week in February. Thos. 
Walton, Secretary. 
Western New York, Buffalo, January 15th to 20th. 
White, Secretary. Entries close January 5th. 
Central New York, Utica, January 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th. 
L. B. Root, Secretary. 
New England, Worcester, January 20th, 21st, 22d. 
Northern Ohio, Cleveland, January 23d to 29th. 
Massachusetts, Boston Music Hall, February 4th to 11th. 
New Hampshire, Manchester, February 11th to 13th. 
Ga Wie 

EXCHANGE COLUMN. 
44> ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS COLUMN, OF FIvrE LINES, oR SIXTY 
WORDS, DESCRIBING AND OFFERING FOR EXCHANGE ONLY, WILL BE AL- 
LOWED AT 25 CENTS FOR EACH AND EVERY INSERTION. 


GOLDEN SPANGLED HAMBURGS, from Imported Stock, 
and comparing favorably with the best, will be exchanged for Dark 
Brahmas and Partridge Cochins, Address 
WM. ATWOOD, Big Flats, New York. 


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surplus stock of Pigeons, all of which have been bred with the greatest 
care for purity of strain and markings, namely: pair Yellow Swallows, 
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N.B.—Birds marked thus * are first-class exhibition birds, fit to win in good 
company. 


