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JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
from different parts of the United States, amounting in all 
to $1450 in cash, or its equivalent in fine fowls or other 
property. The early appearance of premium lists is what 
we have advocated for years. No breeder can find fault 
with this Association, for he has the premium list before 
him previous to the early hatching season. We hope every 
fancier likely to exhibit will send for a copy of this pre- 
mium list, and render all the aid in his power to this young 
but energetic society. Entries for competition close Jan- 
uary 9th, 1875. For further information, address Fred. 
Fox, Secretary, Portland, Maine. 

POULTRY PEDIGREE BOOK. 
Tue Poultry World (American) for March, announces a 
Poultry Pedigree Book, resembling the stud or herd books 
of cattle breeders. It will, no doubt, pay the projectors 
well, each entry being charged twenty-five cents, and the 
notion being just consonant with present American ideas on 
the subject of poultry. The promoters are smart men, and 
probably understood this. We have no doubt that a couple 
of thousand dollars will be readily paid in this way, about 
which time it will be discovered that ‘ pedigrees” of fowls 
are no good.—Fanciers’ Gazette. 

SHERMAN & Co., PRINTERS, PHILADELPHIA. 

AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 
WE have several articles this week bearing on the doings 
of the American Poultry Association concerning the re- 
vision of the Standard of Excellence at the Buffalo Conven- 
tion, but in consequence of the writers withholding their 
names we shall not publish the articles at present. It is ab- 
solutely necessary that our contributors give their names, 
not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. As 
the doings of the American Poultry Association concern 
the interests of every fancier and breeder of fowls, it is but 
fair that an honest criticism should be allowed by those-who 
could not be present at the Convention; but we hope it will 
be done in a generous and impartial manner, and, while 
criticising, not forgetting that it is also necessary to point 
out aremedy. The Convention was composed of good men, 
and we are satisfied that they came together, at much ex- 
pense and loss of time, with a view of doing what they 
believed to be for the good of all fanciers. There may have 
been a few that were headstrong, but a large majority were 
well-meaning men and meant to do what was right. If 
they failed to do their duty, as it is understood by a majority 
of fanciers, they will cheerfully reconsider their doings at 
Buffalo and Boston. There is no necessity for secession, 
“breaking up the Association,’ or a new convention outside 
of the Association, which asks for a fair, honest criticism, 
so that its future acts may be more in keeping with the 
wishes of the poultry fanciers generally. 

MAINE. HEARD FROM. 
We have just received the Premium List of the Maine 
Poultry Association, which is a book of 32 pages, and cover; 
well gotten up, and very complete. The first premium is 
three dollars; second, two dollars; third, diploma; fourth, 
highly commended. The society offers 61 specials, 54 of 
which are silver cups. The remaining 7 range from three 
dollars to ten dollars each. In addition to the above are 
159 specials many of which are offered by leading fanciers 


Gorvespondence. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
Mr. Epitor. 
I was pleased to see the proposition of your correspondent, 
G. P. Burnham, in your last number, in regard to holding 
a new convention upon the subject of fixing up a revised 
standard upon our poultry matters in this country. 
I was greatly disappointed at the book just issued by the 
National Society at Buffalo, and I think we ought to get 
together all the friends of the poultry interest in a body at 
an early day, and adjust this long vexed question in a rea- 
sonable and satisfactory way, as applicable to the needs and 
tastes of American breeders and fanciers at large. 
There are a great many errors to correct in this last new 
standard, and it was plainly got up altogether in too much 
ofa hurry. It costs too high; also, I would like a hundred 
copies of a good standard to distribute among my patrons 
and friends. If it had been put at a fair price many others 
would have bought it with a similar view. 
I do not like the monopoly of this thing either, any more 
than do others of your readers and correspondents, and I 
am glad our old breeders have taken hold of this mistake in 
earnest. Capt. Burnham’s proposal is a good move. For 
one I say amen to it, and I believe such a convention as he 
advises would be just the thing to set us right. 
Respectfully yours, 
F. B. BRapDrorp. 
QuINcy, Mass. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
Mr. WADE. 
I would like to inquire through the Fanciers’ Journal 
whether Game hens are considered good sitters? I have 
tried them at different times, and have found them to be 
very inferior. But the principal fault was that of eating 
their eggs, some of which they attempted, having in them 
chickens nearly ready to hatch. Is it a frequent fault 
common to this breed, or is there some remedy ? 
Wituram D. Ze. 
