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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. 
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THE CONNECTICUT STATE POULTRY SOCIETY 
ARE about establishing permanent society rooms in which 
to transact all business, and to hold social talks, and to be 
used as reading rooms; all the journals relating to poultry 
and pet stock will be kept on file. Breeders are requested 
to send their circulars and cards to the Recording Secretary, 
Dr. Geo. N. Parmele, Hartford, Conn., who will see that 
they are made good use of. The next quarterly meeting 
will be held in Hartford, May 12th. The members are very 
enthusiastic, and are already at work preparing for the next 
exhibition, which will be held in Hartford, Tuesday, Wed- 
nesday, Thursday, and Friday, December 15th, 16th, 17th, 
and 18th. 


Tue Philadelphia Pigeon Flying Association have ar- 
ranged the following five sweepstakes of one hundred dollars 
each, to take place as follows : 
From Trenton, N. J., (over 30 miles), May 4th, for one 
hundred dollars. From Monmouth Junction, (about 50 
miles on New York road), June 8th, for one hundred dol- 
lars. From Atlantic City, (61 miles), July 6th, for one 
hundred dollars. Atlantic City, (61 miles), August 10th, 
for one hundred dollars. New York, (92 miles), September 
7th, for one hundred dollars, First bird to receive fifty dol- 
lars, second bird 30 dollars, third bird twenty dollars. En- 
try fee five dollars for each bird; any number of birds 
allowed to be entered. Open to all. For further informa- 
tion, address THOMAS Grist, President. 
1531 North 23d St. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
TRIPS AMONG THE FANCIERS, 
Jos. M. WanDzE. 
Dear Sir: Having recently made a visit to the justly 
famous poultry yards of the estate of H. H. S. Sharpless, 
and thinking that a brief description of what I saw might 


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be interesting to the readers of the Fanciers’ Journal, I here- 
with send it to you. 
Opon my arrival I was taken in charge by the polite 
manager, Mr. James Brennan, who, like a true fancier, is 
ever ready and willing to show his stock. The hen-house is 
built in the form of an L, facing the east and south, and is 
about 96 feet long by 13 feet in width, and is divided into 
eight rooms 10 by 12, with a passage way three feet in width 
running along the back part. The floors are of cement, 
covered with earth andsand. The nest boxes are arranged 
along the partition, so that the eggs can be removed from 
the passage way without entering the rooms. The front of 
the house is nearly all glass, and each room has a separate 
yard attached to it. The yards are laid out in the form ofa 
triangle, being about 90 feet in length and some 60 feet in 
width at the widest end. The house and yards each have a_ 
water-trough supplied by a pipe running across the yards 
from a large tank, into which the water is pumped by a 
water-wheel. Altogether the house and yards were perhaps 
the most complete in their arrangement of any we have ever 
visited. "We presume that most of your readers know that 
Dark Brahmas are the specialty at these yards. At present 
the breeding stock consists of some forty hens and pullets 
and seven cocks. We do not think it necessary for us to 
say much in their praise; their record in the various show- 
rooms throughout the United States says all that is necessary 
as to their quality. = 
Our attention was next called to the young chicks, of 
which there were some ninety or a hundred, from three 
weeks old to one or two days. The chicks are given free 
range upon the lawn, some five or six acres or more, with 
abundant shelter from sun and rain. Besides all these con- 
veniences there is a large grapery, 20 by 50 feet; on the 
premises, in which the early hatched broods are kept until 
the weather is favorable for letting them run. We were 
much pleased with our visit, and can assure your readers, 
who fancy good Dark Brahmas, that they will be amply 
repaid should they make a journey to the above yards. 
Yours truly, Wo. E. FLoweEr. 


peas> While on the Peninsula during the war, an officer 
came across a private belonging to one of the most predatory 
companies of the Irish Brigade, with the lifeless bodies of a 
goose and hen, tied together by the legs, dangling from his 
musket. ‘* Where did you steal those, you rascal?” ‘ Faith, 
I was marching along with Color-Sargeant Maguire, and 
the goose—bad cess to it !—came out and hissed the American 
flag.” ‘¢ But the hen, sir; how about the hen?” ‘The hin, 
sir, bless ye, was in bad company, and laying eggs for the 
ribbles.” 
pes To Make A VARNISH THAT WILL IMITATE GROUND 
Guass.—Mr. J. Garratt has favored us with the follow- 
ing:—To make a varnish to imitate ground glass, dissolve 
90 grains of sandarac and 20 grains of mastic in 2 oz. of 
mashed methylated ether, and add, in small quantities, a 
sufficiency of. benzine to make it dry, with a suitable grain 
—too little making the varnish too transparent, and excess 
making it crapy. The quantity of benzine required depends 
upon its quality—from half an ounce to 1} ounces or even 
more; but the best results are got with a medium quality. 
It is important to use washed ether, free from spirit.— 
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