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committee empowered to act for the Society, and all things 
bid fair to produce satisfactory results, when discontent ap- 
peared among the rank and file of the Association. The 
premium list was withdrawn, and instead of a grand display 
of first-class birds by amateurs and dealers from abroad, the 
exhibition narrowed down to the stocks of but three or four 
dealers, who did what they could to add to the interest of 
the State Show (and here let us say the poultry and pigeon 
classes attracted more attention than all the other classes to- 
gether). 
The officers and many of the members of the Maryland 
State Poultry Association resigned their memberships, and 
started a new society, entitled the ‘‘ Poultry Association of 
Maryland,’’ electing as officers the following gentlemen: 
President, Mr. Baker; Secretary, Mr. Koons; Standing 
Committee, Messrs. Mordecai, Thompson, Stephens, Powell, 
and Parker. This Association has had under consideration 
an exhibition of the first class, to be held at the Masonic 
Temple some time during December, and quite a number of 
subscriptions were handed in; but in consideration of the 
‘nanic,” and its attendant scarcity of money, it has been 
deemed advisable to postpone the design until a more aus- 
picious season. 
The ‘‘ Maryland State Poultry Association’? (don’t mix 
the two, this is the old one), or what was left of it, called 
a meeting, declared all offices vacant, and proceeded to 
the election of the following gentlemen: President, J. B. 
Town; Vice-Presidents, F. Hine, J. M. Wade, and A. Mil- 
ler; Recording Secretary, A. Rommel; Corresponding Sec- 
retary, Charles Schwin; Treasurer, George Schwin. 
It was decided to give an exhibition of poultry, pigeons, 
dogs, rabbits, birds, &c., during the first week of January, 
1874. 
The premiums are to comprise ten gold medals, forty-two 
silver medals, and a number of diplomas for the varieties, 
and special premiums for best collections and single speci- 
mens of pigeons; also specials for fine poultry, guinea-pigs, 
birds, &e. 
With two societies working towards the same end, it is 
possible something may occur. When the first Association 
was organized, no one would have supposed that before the 
New Year there would be two organizations. So will it be 
with exhibitions; after the start they will grow of themselves. 
Ten years hence they will be established necessities. We 
wish the exhibition success, and if it is placed prominently 
before the public, and in an accessible place, there is no doubt 
of its satisfying the hopes of its friends. 
GLAMORGAN. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
SCIENTIFIC BREEDING OF LIGHT BRAHMAS 
FOR EXHIBITION. 
ARTICLE I. 
SELECTION OF BREEDING STOCK. 
Frew, excepting the most successful breeders, realize how 
important a part the proper selection and mating of their 
breeding stock plays in the rearing of exhibition fowls. To 
produce exhibition birds no pains should be considered too 
great in the mating of a breeding pen to have the faults, 
however small, in cock, counterbalanced by the perfection 
of those points in the hen; if possible have each point repre- 
sented by perfection on one side at least. I-should much 
rather if there must be a failing in one of the birds, that it 



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should be in the hen, as the cock with one exception exerts 
the most influence over the color of the plumage, and over 
the external points or marks in general, while the hen goy- 
erns the form and size. The exception in the cock is this: 
if the hen had not a distinct black stripe in her hackle, I 
should expect to breed very few if any good birds from her, 
even if the cock had a good hackle. I will endeavor to give 
a few rules for the benefit of the amateur. Inselecting a cock, 
choose a bird with a #mall head, which should be surmounted 
with a small pea-comb. The neck should be rather long 
with a full sweeping hackle, which should have a distinct 
black stripe in the centre of each feather. His back should 
be wide and flat without any apparent length; the saddle 
commencing almost at the base of the hackle, cannot be too 
broad, and should continue to ‘rise until it merges into the 
tail, which should be carried nearly upright and open out 
wide. His breast ought to be broad, deep, and full, and car- 
ried well forward. His wings should be well folded with ~ 
the points pressed well into the fluff. The fluff should be 
very abundant, so as to give the bird a broad and deep ap- 
pearance from behind. His legs should be thick and rather 
short, and of bright reddish-yellow color, well feathered with 
white feathers mottled with black near the toes. Perfectly 
white leg feathering is if possible to be avoided ; never breed 
from a bird with crooked toes. 
Next in order comes the hen. Her head should be small 
and fine with a very low pea-comb. Her hackle must have a 
broad black stripe down the middle of each feather, which I 
like to see end in a sharp point at the base of the neck; the 
neck rather long. Back flat’and wide, with a broad cushion, 
which should rise until it almost buries the nearly upright 
tail. Her breast ought to be deep, broad, and full, carried 
rather low in comparison with the cock. Her wings should 
be short, tightly folded, with the points dipped up between 
the cushion and fluff. The fluff should be ample, covering 
the thighs, and giving the bird a broad, deep appearance. 
The hen must be short in the leg, and viewed from be- 
hind they should stand so far apart as to indicate a capacious 
chest, which is necessary to afford room for the heart, lungs, 
and other vital organs, which will insure vigor and stamina. 
The legs of the hen should be of a reddish-yellow ‘color, 
well feathered with white feathers mottled with black near 
the toes; the toes should be straight and strong, 
W. E. FLower. 
SHOEMAKERTOWN, November, 1873. 
a 
A VERY SINGULAR STORY OF A WEASEL. 
Tue following story was told to us as being a positive fact, 
the narrator professing to be one of the workingmen who 
witnessed the performance of the said weasel: A party of 
men were prying stone in a field, and found under a large 
rock a nest containing four young weasels, which they cap- 
tured, and put to one side. Upon the return of the old 
weasel, quite a scene ensued. She became very much ex- 
cited, and very angry, and at once set off, but soon returned, 
and going straight to the little pail containing the drinking- 
water for the men, she spit something in it, and was about 
to go off a second time, when she discovered her nest and 
her young, all alive and unharmed. She immediately re- 
turned to the pail, and continued jumping and pushing at 
it until it was overturned, thus saving the lives of the men 
she evidently meant to punish for the destruction of her off- 
spring.—Farmers’ Club, 
