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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 


(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
Mr. WADE. 
Dear Sir: 1 wish to thoroughly purify the ground in my 
hen-yards, and also the floors of my hen-house. How would 
crude carbolic acid answer for that purpose? and if ‘just 
the thing,’’ how strong a solution should be used, and in 
what way? Is there any danger to be apprehended (to the 
fowls) in its use? How would carbolic disinfecting powder, 
or some one of the carbolic soaps, answer? Please give me 
a reply to the above in the first issue of the Journal after 
the receipt of this. Respectfully yours, 
READER. 
OsweGo Fats, N. Y., March 4, 1874. 
Will some of our readers, who have had experience, please 
answer the above. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
Mr. Jos. M. WADE. 
Dear Sir: [have just received from the port of Leghorn, 
Italy, per bark Hancock, seven white and two brown Leg- 
horns, and one pair of black Sicilians; all the birds have 
extra white ear-lobes, which establishes the fact that white 
ear-lobes on Leghorns (as many breeders advocate) did not 
originate in this section of the world. When the bark left 
port she had twenty-six birds to my consignment, but the 
weather being severe, fifteen died on the passage. I shall 
shortly send for another lot. Yours, very truly, 
W. E. Bonney. 
SoutH Hanover, Mass., March 5, 1874. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
Mr. J. M. WADE. 
Dear Sir: I have just returned from our poultry show 
held in Guelph, Ont., Canada. It was a grand success. 
Some of the finest birds were shown that I ever saw at a 
show in Canada; a good many changed hands at good prices. 
An association was formed called the Canadian Poultry 
Society—President, Rev. W. F. Clark, Guelph; Secretary 
and Treasurer, George Mustan, Esq., Guelph, with a strong 
working committee. A good many members joined before 
the show closed. I think we shall have a strong society. 
There is a good demand for first-class birds in Canada; 
but my best imported English birds go to the States at better 
prices than I can get for them in Canada. I have just sold 
one of my best Buff Cochin cockerels to a breeder in New 
York for $80. He was a first prize and cup winner in Eng- 
land last August. H. M. Tuomas. 
BROOKLIN, ONT., CANADA, March 9, 1874, 
(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
Jos. M. Waps, Esq. 
Dear Sir: Will some of your correspondents kindly in- 
form a young fancier of Fantails what are the number of 
feathers a good specimen tail should contain. Is thirty-two 
a good number, and would a bird possessing that number 
be considered a good bird to begin stocking a coop with ? 
Please answer through the columns of your Journal. 
Yours respectfully, A. B. 
NEw York, March 8, 1874.. . 

Epiror Fanciers’ JOURNAL. 
I woutp like to explain, through the columns of your 
sprightly paper, my experience with eggs this spring, and 
ask if it agrees with that of any one else. 
We keep pure bred fowls, and all winter have used the 
eggs to cook with. I had frequently said to myself when 
beating the whites for cake, ‘‘Our eggs beat up so quickly, 
it seems not so hard to make cake as it used to.”’ 
February, the fowls, as to gender, were kept in separate pens 
for a week or two preparatory to breeding. We used the 
eges the same as before, but the whites would not beat stiff! 
No, not with a half hour’s beating. So I tried again of 
those that had been laid when cocks and hens were together, 
and they, although older, beat up nicely. I concluded that, 
for cake- making, as well as for other purposes, eggs are best 
fertilized. Respectfully, 
Mrs. D. 
DAVENPORT, Iowa, March 6, 1874, 
The above is entirely new to us, and we would be pleased 
to hear from others, if there are any who have had a similar 
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LAKE SHORE POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 
J. M. Wank, Esq. 
Dear Sir: Ata meeting of the fanciers of this section, 
held March 7th, the above-named Society was formed. The 
following gentlemen were chosen as permanent officers for 
the ensuing year: 
President—W. P. Atkinson. 
Vice-Presidents—C. L. Crosby and J. Thornton. 
Recording Secretary—F. P. Kimble. 


Corresponding Secretary—W. D. Janes. 
Treasurer—H. OC. Nick. 
Executive Committee—The above-named officers, together 
with the following: C. F. Webster, John A. Zeimer, John 
Walsh, C. M. Wheeler, Gustave Ebisch. 
Very respectfully, W. D. JAnzs, 
ERIE, Pa. Secretary. 

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PENOBSCOT COUNTY POULTRY SOCIETY. 
THE annual meeting of the Penobscot Poultry Society 
was held in the Common Council room, City Hall, Bangor, 
Maine, yesterday afternoon. The annual reports were read 
and accepted; that of the Treasurer shows a balance in the 
treasury of one dollar. The following officers were elected 
for the ensuing year: : 
President—Albert Noyes, Bangor. 
Vice-Presidents—O. H. Ingalls, Bangor, and Simon G. 
Jerrard, Levant. 
Secretary—John H. Hayes, Bangor. 
Treasurer— William G. Duren, Bangor. 
Trustees—J. EK. Shaw, Hampden; E. P. Ferguson, Ban- 
gor; Geo. D. Stockwell, Hast Eddington; J. P. Kenniston, 
Simpson’s Corner; J. E. Harriman, Bangor; Orrin Favor, 
Brewer; and William P. Woodworth, Bangor. 
Article II of the Constitution was changed by inserting 
seven, instead of five, as the number of Trustees. The 
Trustees were authorized to arrange for a poultry supper at 
the next annual meeting. 
MAINE POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 
AT a meeting of the corporators of the Maine Poultry 
Association, held at Augusta, January 20th, 1874, the fol- 
lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
President—Albert Noyes, Bangor. 
Vice- Presidents—Charles H. Haskell, E. Dana, Jr., Port- 
land; W. P. Atherton, Hallowell; H. Leavitt, Skowhegan; 
Ezra Manter, Winterport; George D. Stockwell, East Ed- 
dington; Seward Dill, Phillips; S. T. Holbrook, Oxford; 
J. A. Lord, Kennebunk; Frank Buck, Orland. 
Secretary—F rederick Fox, Portland. 
Treasurer—Fred. F. Harris, Portland. 
Board of Directors—Fred. Atwood, Winterport; R. O. 
Conant, Portland; B. M. Hight, Skowhegan; W. E. Leigh- 
ton, Augusta; B. H. Lewis, Deering; E. L. O..Adams, 
Portland. 
At a meeting of the Board of Directors, held at the Man- 
sion House, Augusta, on Wednesday, January 20th, it was 
voted to hold an exhibition in Portland on January 12th, 
13th, 14th, and 15th, 1875. 


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