FANCIERS’ 
JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
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placed upon the standard ; we propose to obtain some which 
are pure. Perhaps some fanciers in Massachusetts can give 
you the desired information. 
Very respectfully yours, 
ALLEN CARTER, 
Hampden Centre, Penobscot Co., Maine. 


(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
WHAT FOWLS PAY THE BEST. 
ARTICLE II. 
ArtER my terrible mishap with silver-spangled Ham- 
burgs and White Leghorns, nothing more was done in the 
way of breeding until the following spring, my whole atten- 
tion being turned to building a hennery, and getting better 
breeding stock. My short experience proved to my utmost 
satisfaction the foolishness and impracticability in buying 
inferior stock to breed from; but every one must live and 
learn, and, taking everything into consideration, I think f 
bought my whistle cheap. 
The ground occupied by my poultry yards consisted of 
three building lots, with a front of 54x 80 feet, on a street 
in the northwest portion of the city of Philadelphia. I had 
the whole area sodded and planted with fruit trees inter- 
spersed with a few evergreens. 
My hennery was built of brick, excepting the front (above 
eighteen inches from the ground), which was composed of 
glass covered with a wire screen. The building was twenty 
feet long and ten feet in width, being divided into two well- 
ventilated compartments, with a frame upper story, which 
was devoted exclusively to pigeons of the tumbler variety. 
I had made up my mind to spare no expense, and everything 
usually found in a well-conducted poultry establishment 
could be seen in mine. The building when completed cost 
me $250. 
Seeing.an advertisement in the Country Gentleman where 
Mr. George Chapin, of Providence, Rhode Island, offered to 
dispose of an imported trio of silver-spangled Hamburgs, I 
wrote to him, and, on his word, purchased the fowls—and a 
fine trio of birds they were. In addition, I received two 
trios from Mr. Charles 8. Haines, of Elizabeth, N. J., and 
by selecting from other breeders, increased my stock of sil- 
vers to ten hens and two cocks. By the time I was fairly 
under way I was pretty well known throughout Philadelphia 
and vicinity as a Hamburg fancier. Applications for eggs 
were numerous, and I soon began to realize enough profit to 
at least repay me for the cost of stock; and before the year 
had closed, my twelve silver-spangled Hamburgs had repaid 
me for cost of buildings, appurtenances, feed, &c., besides 
leaving a handsome surplus to be placed to their credit for 
the following year. 
My estimation of profits will extend from December 25th, 
1868, to December 25th, 1869. 
Dr. CR. 
aid for fOWwls:.....0-.s0s0.062+-2s $75 00 | 70 doz. eggs, @ $3 per doz... $210 00 
Feed, expressage, &c.......... 143 50 | 100 dozen eggs sold at store 
Portraits, advertising, &c... 30 00 and consumed by family, 25 00 
na,6 op, | 08 young fowls sold..........:. 265 00 
eas 0 9 aes “ keptoyer.... 45 00 
$545 00 
Leaving a balance of.... $296 00 
Trenton, N. J. Tuos. S. ARMSTRONG. 
Remarxs.—Yes, that will pay very well for the services 
of your teacher, ‘‘ Experience,’’ and we would add our ap- 


proval of the plan suggested of planting fruit trees in the 
yards, believing that while the fowls are searching for their 
‘‘grub” in the shade which they afford, the chances are that 
the fruit will be fairer and more abundant, on account of so 
much insect life being destroyed. We should like our readers 
to be benefited by the still larger experience of others who 
have tried the effects of combining the fruit orchard and 
hennery. 
QuERY? We should like to know if a Guinea fowl is worth 
about ‘21 shillings’? If it is, of course a Guinea pig 
ought to have a similar value. 
SUPPOSING you are walking in town with your mother’s 
sister and she gets tired, what ought you todo? Why take 
her to a rest-u-r-ant, of course, and get a lunch. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
SCIENTIFIC BREEDING OF LIGHT BRAHMAS 
FOR EXHIBITION. 
ARTICLE II. 
MANAGEMENT OF BREEDING STOCK DURING THE BREEDING 
SEASON. 
Havine selected your stock, the next question that pre- 
sents itself is, how to feed and care for them during the 
breeding season. I have always obtained the best results by 
placing the stock birds in small pens, which are made six 
feet long and three feet wide; two and one-half feet should 
be boarded in, and the remaining three and a half feet 
covered with lath or wire netting. The sides under the eaves 
are twenty-four inches high, the framing to be made of one 
and a half inch stuff. The inclosed part should have a floor; 
the nests should be placed on one side of the inclosed portion 
and the perch on the other ; the door should be in the centre 
of the back part, for convenience in getting at the nests and 
cleaning out the droppings, which must be done daily. These 
pens can be constructed very cheaply by using old dry goods 
boxes having approximate dimensions. I always puta single 
bird in each pen. It would not do to put a cock and hen in 
the same pen, as the cock would worry and harass the hen so 
as to greatly diminish the supply and fertility of the eggs. 
By keeping the birds separate in this manner I am convinced 
that the hens will look better and lay more eggs, which is an 
item not to be overlooked, especially if you have but one or 
two hens. My method is to take the hen out of her pen and 
