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(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
PREJUDICES AGAINST POULTRY BREEDING. 
No. II. 
WHILE many poultry breeders and dealers have acted in 
bad faith toward their customers, yet many of the charges 
which have been made have been without foundation ; they 
have their origin in a mistaken idea as to what the buyer 
had a right to expect for the purchase money. A man who 
knows little about fowls goes to a show—say, for instance, 
the Buffalo show—where some of the best breeders in the 
nation have their very best birds on exhibition ; fowls which 
could not be purchased at any price, and he admires them 
very much. He goes home thinking of the fowls, and 
finally determines to purchase for himself. He obtains the 
address of some breeder, sends him perhaps twelve or fifteen 
dollars for a trio, which he considers an extravagant price, 
and expects to get as good fowls as those he saw at the exhi- 
bition, and is ready to charge the breeder with dishonesty 
if they are not first-class show birds. 
A man sends for a setting of eggs; they are badly handled 
by the express companies and few of them hatch, and the 
dealer is at once charged with destroying their vitality. If 
the eggs hatch well it is expected that the whole brood will 
be first-class birds, and if they are not he says the breeder 
has sent him his poorest eggs. There are many persons of 
means and leisure who breed poultry for pleasure rather than 
for profit, and they are willing to sell fine birds for merely 
nominal rates, in order to get rid of surplus stock, or for 
the accommodation of neighbors. If any other persons in 
the same neighborhood are obliged to pay two or three times 
as much for the same kind of stock to regular dealers, they 
are apt to think themselves cheated, when perhaps they have 
only paid a fair price for their purchases. 
Heretofore there has been little uniformity in prices 
throughout the country, one breeder selling for thirty dol- 
lars first-class birds, for which others would ask fifty, or 
even seventy-five dollars. This great diversity in price has 
given rise to much hard feeling on the part of purchasers, 
and has been the occasion of many unfounded charges of 
unfair dealing. I have a right to value my stock highly, 
and ask a good round price for it, provided I do not mislead 
or deceive the buyer by any exaggerated or false representa- 
tion. But when a breeder advertises that he has not only 
the largest and best, but the only stock of a certain description 
in the world, while a large number of others are breeding 
just as good, he not only unduly exaggerates the importance 
of his own stock, but wilfully misrepresents his brethren; 
and I am by no means certain that this would not come 
within the scope of the resolution passed by the National 
Association at Boston. By means of the journals and shows 
the people will become better educated, and prices will 
become more uniform. 
A friend purchased a prize trio of chickens from one of 
the most noted breeders, and from them, and some other 
pullets mated with the cockerel, he raised some very fine 
pullets, but did not get a single cockerel that he was willing 
to breed from. I mention this not to discourage young 
breeders, but as showing what care and judgment in mating 
is requisite, and with all this the best of breeders sometimes 
fail. 
Those who purchase eggs ought to understand that they 
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very best, disappointments will frequently occur. Charges 
of dishonest dealing ought to be received with caution; but 
if thoroughly established, the guilty parties ought to be 
exposed. F. R. W. 

RHODE ISLAND POULTRY AND COLUM- 
BARIAN SOCIETY. 
FIRST ANNUAL EXHIBITION. 
(Continued from page 218, No. 14.) 
2d, J. R. Goodale, Pawtucket, $2; 3d, William Pierce, 
South Scituate, highly commended. 
—Ist, D. A. Segar, Westerly, $3; 2d, W. EH. O. Roberts, 
South Scituate, $2. Black Cochin Fowls—\st, D. A. Segar, 
Westerly, $3; 2d, William Cooke, Pawtucket, $2. Black 
Cochin Chickens—1st, William Cooke, $3; 2d, Robert Plews, 
North Providence, $2; 3d, D. A. Segar. Partridge Cochin 
Fowls—\st, S. O. Chase, Killingly, Conn., $3; 2d, L. R. 
Rockwood, Worcester, Mass., $2; 3d, James L. Bullock, 
Providence. Partridge Cochin Chickens—lst, E. Capron, 
Attleboro’, Mass., $3: 2d, H. A. Rhodes, East Greenwich, 
$2; 3d, J. T. Peckham, Providence. Light Brahma Fowls 
—Ilst, Edward Thurber, Woonsocket, $3; 2d, J. L. Bullock, 
Providence, $2; 38d, J. L. Carpenter, Attleboro’. Light 
Brahma Chickens—I\st, Wright Buckley, Valley Falls, $3 ; 
2d, James L. Bullock, Providence, $2; 8d, Edward Thur- 
ber, Woonsocket. Dark Brahma Fowls—1st, W. F. Inman, 
Providence, $3; 2d, C. G. Sanford, Providence, $2; 3d, 
Edward Bent, Providence. Dark Brahma Chickens—Ist, 
Wright Buckley, Valley Falls, $3; 2d, J. T. Peckham, 
Providence, $2; 8d, H. Allen & Son, North Attleboro’. 
CLASS ILI—HAMBURGS. 
Silver Spangled Hamburg Fowls—lst, George F. Seavey, 
Cambridgeport, Mass., $3; 2d, John H. Chase, Providence, 
$2; 3d, Charles Taft, Providence. Silver Spangled Hamburg 
Chickens—1st, George F. Seavey, Cambridgeport, Mass., $3 ; 
2d, S. P. Bullas, Providence, $2; 38d, Charles H. Pond, 
Attleboro’. Silver Penciled Hamburg Fowls—Iist, Robert 
W. Reid, Greenport, L. I., $3; 3d, James B. Peck, Provi- 
dence. Silver Penciled Hamburg Chickens—1st, Robert W. 
Reid, Greenport, $3; 8d, James B. Peck, Providence. 
Golden Spangled Hamburg Fowls—Ilst, George F. Seavey, 
Cambridgeport, $3; 2d, Thomas Richards, Norton, Mass., 
$2. Golden Spangled Hamburg Chickens—\1st, George F. 
Seavey, Cambridgeport, $3; 2d, S. B. Bullas, Providence ; 
3d, J. H. Congdon, Attleboro’. Black Hamburg Chickens— 
Ist, C. Cushing, Anthony, $3. 
CLASS IV—SPANISH. 
Black Spanish Fowls—1st, H. W. K. Allen & Son, North 
Attleboro’, $3; 2d, Albert W. Jones, Milford, Mass , $2; 
3d, 8. B. Bullas, Providence. Black Spanish Chickens—Ist, 
W.F. Inman, Providence, $38. Dominique Leghorn Fowls 
—lst, S.S. Van Buren & Co., Hartford, Conn., $3. Dom- 
inique Leghorn Chickens—2d, J.T. Peckham, Providence, 
$2. Brown Leghorn Fowls—|st, F. J. Kinney, ‘Worcester, 
Mass., $8. Brown Leghorn Chickens—Ist and 2d, F. J. 
Kinney, Worcester, Mass., $3 and $2. White Leghorn 
Fowls—3d, William L. Tobey, Valley Falls. White Leg- 
horn Chiekens—\st, Joseph Dart, Oxford, Mass., $3; 2d, R. 
Bs Yates, Northboro’, Mass., $2; 3d, C. L. Read, Provi- 
ence. 
CLASS V—FRENCH. 
Creveceur Fowls—ist, D. A. Segar, Westerly, $3; 2d, 
Joshua Vose, Manton, $2. La Fleche Chickens—\st and 2d, 
J. R. Goodale, Pawtucket, $3 and $2. Houdan Fowls—1st 
and 2d, E. C. Aldrich, Hyde Park, Mass., $3 and $2; 3d, 
Joshua Vose, Manton. Houdan Chickens—I1st, 2d, and 3d, 
E, ae Hyde Park, Mass., $3, $2, and highly com- 
mended. 
White Cochin Chickens 
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