28 FANCIERS’ 
JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 

Lastly, as to the annoyance. To succeed in rabbit-breed- 
ing the stock must nor be allowed to run at will. In 
breeding large numbers for the market, it may be necessary 
to resort to the former English system of warrens ; but even 
in this case the ground should be inclosed by a tight board 
fence, with the ends set at least three feet deep in the earth 
to prevent burrowing out. <A better plan would be to uSe 
large courts paved with stone or cement, and that lightly 
covered with earth. Bred for fancy, or with a view of sale 
as fancy stock, they should be kept in hutches, or on the 
floor of some vermin-proof building, divided into suitable 
compartments. Thus cared for, they can never be an 
annoyance, but rather a source of profit, as well as of pleas- 
ure.—HALsteEepD in Poultry Bulletin. 

A GAME STANDARD. 
In the month of March last I published my standard of 
the requisite qualifications that make up a perfect game- 
fowl, and restricted my scale of points to the number 50. 
The Convention that met in New York to revise the stand- 
ard did not take up the game-fowl for some reason, and I 
concluded to make up a standard of this variety of fowls, as 
well as to correct many of the mistakes that were made in 
the other classes. JI consider the scale I adopted of 50 
points, more simple and convenient than the present one, 
consisting of 100 points. These numbers are merely arbi- 
trary signs; and the number 50 will express as much as the 
number 100, and only half the number of figures are used. 
I found that the judges at fairs would pay no respect to the 
present scale on account of its complications and the time it 
consumed in studying it out. The one I have adopted is so 
short and simple that any one can carry it in his head 
without continually referring to the book. The number 5 
expresses the highest number in my standard. The figure 
2 stands for Good; 3, Better; 5, Best, since perfection is 
rarely attainable, and is only so by comparison. If we have 
a fowl that does not rank as high as good, but approximates 
it, we can designate it by ‘‘ Highly Commended,”’ and one 
degree lower by ‘‘ Commended.” If the fowl does not com- 
mend itself to the judges at all, the exhibitor had better cut 
off its head. I submit the following as a game standard for 
Black Reds: 
THE COCK, 
Head, Neck and Hackle.—Orange-red to the points, and 
entirely free from black stripes, 6 
Face, Comb, Wattles and Deaf-ear.—Bright aoa 5 
Hye.—V ermilion, 5 
Beak.—Dark-greenish horn- aio, 5 
Back and Wing-Bow.—Rich, clear bright crimson, Wend 
ually shading into orange on the rump-hackles, 
which should match the neck, ; ; ; an iO 
Flight Coverts.—Clear rich bay, . : 5 
Wing-Bar.—Steel-blue, and tail rich black, wie Sickt 
purple-bronze shade in secondary sickles, ; 5 
Breast and Thighs.—A bright blue-black, free from any 
mixture of color, . : ; : : : 8 
Legs and Feet. S Wilber or olive-green, : 5 
Style and Condition.—Shape ‘of the bird; carriage of 
the head, wings and tail; brillianey of plumage; 
health, size and weight, : : pale sO 
50 

THE HEN. 
Head and Neck.—Gold and black, principally gold, 
each feather having a golden shaft and margin, 
with narrow, black stripes between. In other words 
the hackle is striped black down thie centre, the 
shaft being the same in color as the margin; the 
gold and black should not run into each other, nO 
Comb, Wattles, Face and Ear-lobes.—Bright red, 5 
Eye, Beak, Legs and Feet.—To match the cock, . 5 
Back and Wings.—A light drab-brown, very inal 
marked with a small, wavy, irregular marking 
like that of the back of a partridge. Brown, yel- 
lowish, or penciled or rusty wings are objectionable, 5 
Breast.—Rich salmon color, the centre of each feather 
being one shade lighter, . : ; : Am 
Belly.—Ashy gray, tinged with zelnoul ; ee AS) 
Tail.—Black, . ; : ; ; aa 
Body-color.—Partridge, or as near to the eine of tha 
bird as possible, Tune up the outside or top 
feathers of the tail, , 5 
Style.—Shape of the ied Penerel carriage, “priliangy 
and accuracy of plumage, . 2 : ; GO 
Condition.—Health, size and weight, . , ; ao 
50 
Isaac VAN WINKLE. 
GREENVILLE, N. J. 

THe San Diego (Cal.) Union says: ‘‘A miner from Ari- 
zona, whose name we were unable to ascertain, went fishing 
down on Culverwell’s wharf, between four and five o’clock 
last evening. He had been fishing but a short time when 
he drew up on the wharf an ordinary sized black liquor 
bottle. He was not frightened at the bottle, but he was 
wonderfully perplexed as to what had ‘ bitten’ and how and 
by whom the bottle had been attached to his line about a 
foot above the hook. The miner called out, and several 
other persons who were fishing near him ran to see the won- 
derful catch. An examination showed that there was a 
devil-fish inside the bottle, and that one of his arms extended 
out of the neck, and was firmly entwined around the line. 
The devil-fish had probably crawled into the bottle when 
young, and finding it a nice, comfortable residence, he had 
committed the indiscretion of remaining there until he had 
grown so large he could not get out. He had grown to 
nearly the size of his glass house, and, in fact, was rather 
cramped for room. The miner was very much elated over 
his prize, and, in spite of the protestations of the crowd, he 
broke the bottle to get a better view of the monster.” 
THE PENNSYLVANIA State PouLTRY AsSsocrATION.— 
Some years ago when the society was formed, the members 
not only appointed officers, but attorneys also. They selected 
Theodore Cuyler and Constant Guillou, Esqs., as their 
attorneys. The first announcement that these gentlemen 
received of the exalted consideration in which they were 
held in chickendom was in the newspapers of the next morn- 
ing. Some of their brethren of the bar addressed them a 
roguish letter, purporting to come from the society, asking 
their opinion upon the question, whether an unnaturalized 
Shanghai rooster was entitled to the jurisdiction of the 
Federal courts. The learned counsel are said to have replied 
that he might be entitled to sue in the law side of the court: 
but that a court of equity, which abhors the approach of the 
foul, would not sustain a bill filed by the rooster. 
At the time the matter made a little spirit at the bar, and 
a humorous paper on the subject, from the fluent pen of Mr. 
Guillou, is still extant. 
