FANCIERS JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
coops Plymouth Rocks, one coop Muscovy Ducks, one coop 
Buff Cochin Fowls, one coop Buff Cochin Chickens, one 
coop Partridge Cochins. Joseph G. Basford, one coop Sil- 
ver Sebright Bantams. H. A. Southwick, one coop Part- 
ridge Cochins, one coop Plymouth Rocks. T. H. Jackman, 
one coop Black Cochins, one coop Plymouth Rocks. G. P. 
Tilton, one coop Light Brahmas. George D. Walton, one 
coop Dark Brahma Fowls, one coop Light Brahma Fowls, 
one coop Cinnamon Cochin Fowls, one coop Partridge 
Cochin Fowls, one coop Plymouth Rock Fowls, one coop 
White Cochin Chickens, one coop White Leghorn Chick- 
ens, one coop Brown Leghorn Chickens, one coop Plymouth 
Rock Chickens, one coop Partridge Cochin Chickens, one 
coop Light Brahma Chickens, one coop Black Cochin 
Chickens, one coop Black-breasted Red Game Chickens. 
W. H. Harrington, one coop Black-breasted Red Game 
Bantam Fowls, one coop Black-breasted Red Game Bantam 
Chickens, one coop Duckwing Chickens. A. F. Poor, one 
coop Partridge Cochins. J, L. Colcord, one coop Clear-leg 
Light Brahmas. W. N. Brookhouse, one coop Sumatra 
Games, one coop Sumatra Chickens, one coop Brown Leg- 
horn Chickens. Geo. W. Taylor, one coop Sumatra Games, 
one coop Plymouth Rocks, one coop Plymouth Rock 
Chickens. Samuel Stimpson, one coop Light Brahmas. 
D. B. Wallace, one coop Buff Cochins, one coop White 
Cochins, one coop Plymouth Rocks, one coop Black Spanish, 
one coop Black-breasted Red Games, one coop Brown Red 
Games, one coop Blue Red Games, one coop Ginger Red 
Games, one coop Red Dunn Games, one coop Earl Derby 
Games, two coops English White Games, two coops Duck- 
Wing Games, three coops Muff Games, one coop Irish Gray 
Games, three coops Pile Games, one coop Clairbourn Games, 
one coop Brass Back Games, one coop White Georgian 
Games, two coops Black-breasted Red Games (Bantams). J. 
E. Clement, one coop Brown Leghorns, one coop White 
Leghorns. Underhill, one coop Brown Leghorns, one coop 
Light Brahmas, one coop Plymouth Rocks. David Osborne, 
one coop Plymouth Rock Fowls, one coop Partridge Cochins, 
one coop Brown Leghorns. F. Johnson, one coop two Dark 
Leghorn Pullets, for exhibition. 
At noon the Convention was formally opened by an ad- 
dress from its President, Samuel Newman, Esq., as follows: 
Members of the Peabody Poultry Association: 
GENTLEMEN: Some twenty-eight years ago there was held 
_in Boston what was then called a ‘hen show,’’ but more 
properly speaking a poultry exhibition. 
As we were passing up Tremont Street on that occasion, 
many persons were noticed wending their way to the Public 
Garden; there, under a mammoth tent, was a large collec- 
tion of coops, containing poultry of different varieties, from 
the small Sebrights, with their golden and silver lace, to the 
tall and muscular Shanghai; also the mammoth geese from 
the farm of Col. Jaquith, to the variety of different breeds 
of fowls by George P. Burnham, of poultry notoriety, and 
from whose pen are several treatises connected with the 
poultry interests; and among many of the prominent con- 
tributors from this town, and pioneers on that occasion, I 
may mention the names of Pierce and Osborn, of the Bux- 
tons and Southwicks, and many others, some of whom have 
continued with unabated interest up to the present time; 
and before you may be seen fine specimens from their poultry 
yards. 
Although the interest manifested at that exhibition seemed 
to lull and be dormant with some for a time, nevertheless it 
has awakened to new life and zeal and effort, until at the 
present time poultry associations have been and are being 
formed in almost every State inthe Union. Yes, and I may 
say in some towns and counties also. And when we look 
back to our early agricultural shows we well remember what 
little interest was manifested in the exhibition of poultry, 
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Now you can seldom, if ever, attend one of our State or 
county shows without seeing a place allotted for the poultry 
stands, without which our agricultural shows would lose one 
of their prominent features. 
And why should not the poultry interest be considered of 
great importance to our State and county agricultural shows ? 
Surely they contribute not a little to the gatherings on these 
occasions; for as we were accustomed to pass and repass on 
the grounds you might see large numbers of the ladies, who 
make up a considerable part of the visitors, frequenting the 
tent under which were arranged the poultry stands and coops 
containing the birds of many colors; also that wonderful 
invention, Graves’ incubator or hatching machine (and which 
has been so kindly offered on this occasion), where were to 
be seen the young birds just emerging from the shell, and as 
the visitors looked with delight on the new comers to our 
exhibitions, and hear the sweet notes of the Canary, and the 
sonorous sounds of the Leghorns, the Polish, the Sebrights, 
and Hamburgs, and the loud and prolonged crow of the 
Asiatics, may we not be proud of our interest in this delight- 
ful employment ? 
And now to speak of some of the advantages that are to 
accrue to the poultry breeder in the health and happiness 
which it brings to him, as he is accustomed to visit. his 
poultry yards to attend to the wants of his pet birds. How 
pleasant the employment! And who that has a few leisure 
moments, after the cares and perplexities of daily toil, does 
not find a visit to their yard pleasant and delightful? And 
again, let me allude to the products of the poultry yard, its 
extent, its utility as articles of food, and the many ways that 
we are benefitted from the products of the poultry. 
We have but to turn to the neighboring city of Boston, 
at this season of the year, to be reminded of the extent of 
the products that come to us from the State of Maine, with 
its acres of pines, and from the granite hills of New Hamp- 
shire, in almost every railroad car and in steamers, to assure 
us that the raising of poultry is one of the largest, if not the 
largest, business of those States. And as our annual Thanks- 
giving and Christmas approaches, how many do we see in 
our thoroughfares and market-places for the purpose of 
selecting the well fatted turkey and the plump chicken, with 
which to furnish their tables on these days of feasting; also 
the fresh laid eggs, which in the hands of the ladies furnish 
a large part in preparing the delicacies for the sick and the 
convalescent, aye (and of which those in health would not 
object to partake of); and form the waving plumes on our 
soldiers’ caps, and the snow white feathers that adorn our 
ladies’ bonnets, if so they may be called. 
I might here mention, also, the profits resulting to the 
poultry breeder, from his favored stocks of fowls; but as 
there are so many journals, some of which are devoted entirely 
to the poultry interest, and in which are so many articles re- 
lating to the subject, many of which are in the hands of some 
of our poultry breeders, one or two will suffice. 
own vicinity I know of parties that have made this business 
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a specialty, and asa result of their labors quite large incomes 
have accrued. I also know of some ladies who have given 
their attention to this object, and who have been very much 
interested in the raising of the birds. I know of one who at | 
one of our Agricultural Exhibitions, exhibited several coops 
of fowls, and who I heard discussing their merits, bearing off 
the largest number of prizes for her pet birds ; and why should 
not the ladies take an active part in the raising and caring for 
these birds? Surely they can better appreciate their wants 
