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FANCIER®S’ 
(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
THE BALD-HEAD TUMBLER. 



OnE of the most striking and pleasing birds to the eye, of 
the Tumbler class, and a bird which is springing largely 
into favor among fanciers, is the Bald-head Tumbler, a 
bird, by the way, that, until very lately, has not been 
taken much into the notice of our breeders in America; but 
several fanciers, after meeting together and consulting on 
the breeding powers and beauty of this class of Pigeons, 
concluded to give these birds a thorough trial. After care- 
ful and systematic breeding, they have succeeded in pro- 
ducing birds of the most approved style and feather. As 
some of your readers may not be acquainted with this 
variety of Tumblers, we will endeavor to describe the birds 
as they appeared to us while on exhibition. Bald-head 
Tumblers are about the size of our common Turbits, which 
they resemble very much in shape. Their bodies are of one 
solid color, either yellow, red, blue, black, or silver. Of 
these five colors, the black are the most common. Good 
birds of the other four colors are worth and do bring large 
prices. Above the line of the eye the feathers of the head 
are entirely white, from which characteristic marking 
comes their name. Their thighs, flight feathers, and tail 
are also white, and with the dark colors of the body form a 
most pleasing contrast. The wings of the best specimens 
droop and touch the ground. Their eyes are and should be 
of a pearl color, and the choicest birds possess a white and 
very short bill. 
At the late exhibition of the National Columbarian So- 
ciety, just closed, we were introduced to a gentleman who 
has made these birds a specialty, who informed us that he 
had paid as much as forty dollars per pair for these birds in 
England, and in his opinion there were no better layers or 
more successful breeders to be found, search the world over. 
This gentleman’s birds were awarded all the first premiums 
by the judges at the above show. Why is it that these birds 
are not more seen in the coops and lofts of our fanciers? Is 
it because they are scarce? or is it because the birds are 
owned by only a few fanciers, who have a ‘‘corner”’ in this 
particular class of birds. We are rather inclined to think 
the latter is the case, and if so, we say ‘‘ Down with all 
rings and corners.’? However, in our judgment, if our fan- 
ciers would take the breeding of these birds into considera- 
tion, the ‘rings’? would soon be abolished, and every 
fancier would be able soon to exhibit at our shows these 
really beautiful birds. 
In conclusion, allow us to congratulate the managers of 
the National Columbarian Society for their efforts in bring- 
ing them to the notice of our fanciers, and the neat manner 
in which they were exhibited. 
Yours fruly, K. & 8. 
JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 

169 
Gorrespondence. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
Mr. Jos. M. WapDzE. 
DEAR Srr: I can hardly take up a journal that has any 
poultry news in, or paper devoted entirely to the poultry 
interest, without seeing very many inquiries as to finding an 
antidote for the worst of poultry diseases, roup. 
Let me tell you a little of my experience for the last ten 
years, five in England and five in this country, in treating 
this disease. It is by sulphurous acid medication, or by 
letting the bird be exposed to the fumes of sulphur burned 
in the atmosphere, which produces sulphurous acid gas. I 
have found it the cheapest and most reliable remedy that 
can be used for either fowls, horses, or human beings, that 
are affected with roup, epizooty, or catarrh. It acts like 
magic, and relieves the patient at once. Two or three ap- 
plications a day, for a day or two, being all that is necessary. 
The mode of application is as follows: Take a small shovel- 
ful of red-hot cinders from the stove, and place it on a stool 
or chair (on something, so that it will not burn the article), 
in the middle of the room, or outhouse, barn, or any place 
that has a door and windows; sprinkle on the cinders a tea- 
spoonful of flour of sulphur (powdered brimstone), and let 
it smudge; it will only glow, and give off sulphurous acid 
fumes, which will cause the fowl that you are operating 
upon to cough and sneeze, at the same time bringing up 
through the nostrils and throat phlegm and mucus. You 
need not hold the bird over the fumes, but sit a yard or two 
from it, and breathe it yourself as well. If you are troubled 
with catarrh or cold in the head, I will stake my professional 
reputation that in five or six fumigations, that it will entirely 
disappear, and until fresh cold is taken you will be cured. 
When the epizooty was raging so bad with us a year ago, 
in my district I had over seventy horses that I fumigated 
twice a day, and I treated nearly one hundred and fifty by 
advice during the epidemic. I turned horse doctor for a 
time, and I can truly say, thatr not one horse that was 
thoroughly fumigated, and ordinary attention given to it, 
died or had any relapse. 
I wrote an article on the subject, which the editors of the 
Rochester Union and Advertizer were kind enough to publish, 
and I had dozens of letters, from some of our most prominent 
horsemen and farmers, thanking me for giving them a cure 
so easy and certain as the sulphuroys medication. 
I have had many valuable birds sick, and whenever cold 
or roup symptoms put in an appearance, I just retire to a 
small room with my patient, and a pan of red-hot coals, a 
little sulphur, and ten minutes’ fumigation. After four or 
five applications, I find my bird better every way, and not 
once has it failed. 
The fumes, which to some are not at all disagreeable, can 
be soon expelled from the room by opening the window or 
door, and it will not damage either furniture or the most 
delicate articles. 
My little boy has twice had a severe cold this winter. As 
soon as it appears my wife takes him on her lap, and has 
some sulphur burning for a few minutes in the kitchen or 
sitting-room, and in a couple of days he is over it, and per- 
fectly well. ‘ 
It saves a doctor's bill, and many a restless night. For 
children with croup or hooping cough, catarrh, or any affec- 
tions of the bronchial tubes, inflammation of the lungs, &c., 
