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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND. POULTRY EXCHANGE. 

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by JosepH M. 
WADE, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
a 
Harome J OURNAL AND QULTRY (Gfrxonancs, 
JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 

Published Weekly at 39 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia. 

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SHERMAN & Co., PRINTERS, PHILADELPHIA. 

We have received from the publisher, Wm. P. Atkinson, 
Erie, Pa., an elegantly printed descriptive catalogue, hand- 
somely illustrated with eighteen cuts, representing the best 
breeds. Great care and pains have evidently been taken in 
presenting to the public this really elegant and useful work 
on poultry. The descriptions are taken from the new Amer- 
ican standard, as revised at the late Buffalo convention, and 
may be relied upon as being correct in every particular. 
The size of the page is a large octavo, and is printed on 
toned paper. The mechanical execution is excellent, the 
illustrations and letter-press being very clear, and an illumi- 
nated cover adds considerably to its appearance; but the 
subject matter is really of the most importance, containing 
—besides the descriptions and illustrations alluded to—valu- 
able hints relative to the care of poultry, together with a 
list of many of the diseases of fowl and their remedies. 
It is a work which we can cordially recommend to all 
breeders of poultry. Sent postpaid on receipt of fifteen 
cents. See advertisement. 

FOWLS FOR FARMERS. 
Farmers have their fancies like the rest of us, but they 
have an eye at the same time to the profits which an enter- 
prise will yield them. ‘There are, probably, few ardent fan- 
ciers, who breed fowls for pleasure alone, that would care to 
show up the profit and loss account. Fanciers in general 
make pleasure and a love for the beautiful the first elements 
in the breeding of pets, but with farmers this is not the case. 
The first question is, Will it pay? and the second, In what 
respect is your fancy stock any better than our common dung- 
hill fowls 2 
To answer intelligently the question, What stock of fowls 

is best for the farmer? we have first to take note of the fact 
that the farmer’s treatment of stock and the fancier’s treat- 
ment are two vastly different things. Your fancier looks 
out for beauty, and takes but little account of expense of 
feed; but the farmer has the same problem to solve here 
that he has in the feeding of sheep or cattle: How much 
marketable meat, or butter, or eggs, will every bushel of 
corn produce? If less than the value of the corn, then he 
argues it is useless and unwise to keep stock. But if, on the 
other hand, the beef, and butter, and eggs will yield more 
revenue than the corn, besides paying for the extra labor 
and attention to stock, then keeping and feeding stock for 
market purposes is the best. 
That fowls do pay, we believe no man that ever tried the 
experiment doubts. On an average every hen on the farm, 
with ordinary attention, will yield an annual profit of one 
dollar at least. This is true of almost any good ordinary 
breed of fowls; with better breeds, and better attention, the 
profit will be greater, of course. 
Farmers’s fowls in general receive but little care and at- 
‘tention except during the winter, and even then only in the 
matter of feed. It would be safe to say that not more than 
one farmer in ten ever seems to think of feeding his fowls 
in summer; they are expected to find their own living. 
This, of course, is not true of those living near our large 
cities, where the matter of poultry breeding forms one of 
the industries of the farmer, but it is true of the rural dis- 
tricts. Not only is this true, but it is true, too, that the 
fowls have no permanent roosting-place—sometimes in the 
wagon-shed, sometimes over the pig-sty, but oftener on the 
trees and fences. 
Our Asiatics are valuable, but with care like this where 
are the Asiatics that would thrive? I ama warm admirer 
of Brahmas and Cochins, but with the kind of care here in- 
dicated—and it is the care which most farmers give—I 
would not advise any farmer to try these. Light Brahmas 
—among the most valuable—might get through, but it 
would be a battle for life and existence. The average 
farmer wants a fowl that will in a great degree support 
itself. There are many, of course, that-will do this, and 
among the best are the Hamburgs and Leghorns. Of the 
former. I cannot speak from experience, but I know, from 
the experience of others, that they arerexcellent. I find the 
Leghorns extra good; and among the best of them for the 
farmer is the Brown Leghorn, particularly where foxes are 
numerous. White Leghorns, in foxy districts, are too con- 
Only one objection can be urged on behalf of the 
farmer against the Leghorns, and that is want of size; but, 
as egg producers, they are hard to beat. Think of taking to 
market from twelve to eighteen dozen of eggs every year 
from each hen on your farm—say an average of fifteen 
dozen, at thirty cents a dozen—and tell us poultry does not 
pay. Your wife knows better than that. 
One more variety, which we cannot now refrain from 
naming as being an excellent farmer’s fowl, is the Plymouth 
Rock. The chicks are easily reared. The fowls are good 
self-supporters and good in size, ranging from fourteen to 
eighteen pounds to the pair; sometimes going beyond this. 
They are active, have a nice yellow skin, lay good-sized 
spicuous. 
‘eggs and plenty of them, and, in“fact, have more good 
points and fewer objections, from the farmer’s point of view, 
than any other breed we know of. But, more on this subject 
at another time. A. N. Rave. 
Lock HAVEN, Pa, 
