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JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 
A.N. Ravs, Associate Editor. 
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. 

SEND OUT YOUR BEST. 
WE believe it to be to every honest breeder’s and fancier’s 
interest in selling stock, to sell only such as hé knows to be 
good. First, let him select his breeding stock properly 
mated, and from the best marked, most healthy, and most 
vigorous in his possession. Having done this, let him put 
a price on such specimens as he may have for sale—casting 
aside all that are not up in their markings, or which may 
have a taint of any kind. Justice to his customers demands 
this; but, if he hopes ever to establish a name for fair deal- 
ing, or to make his mark with first-rate steck, his own self- 
interest demands it more. It takes but one or two bad sales 
to ruin a stock-breeder’s reputation for a life-time. 
We have in our mind now, men who started out with a 
lavish expenditure of money and energy enough to govern 
the State; but who, through a few sales of inferior stock, 
at high prices, shelved themselves so thoroughly, that the 
trumpet of the angel Gabriel could hardly call them down. 
Of course, it served them right, and none of them have our 
sympathy—nor are they worthy of it. Fair dealing in this 
business is what makes; and if a man breaks through foul 
dealing, he calls down the storm on his own head. 
But, independent of this, the man who sells inferior stock, 
is advertising himself in a way which will assuredly do him 
future injury. The buyer who points out his stock, as hay- 
ing come from the yards of Mr. A. B. or C., gives the seller 
thoughtlessly an advertisement, which will do him good or 
evil, according to the merits of the stock in question. 

A NEW DEPARTMENT. 
Our system of Departments has given such universal sat- 
igfaction that, at much solicitation, we have concluded to 
add another one, which will be headed ‘‘ Dog and Rabbit 
Department,’ and we shall be pleased to receive contribu- 
tions for this Department from the lovers of those animals. 


THE CHANGE. 
By the notice in our last number our readers are no doubt 
prepared for the change which we have concluded to make 
For the present the Journal will be issued every other week. 
The price of subscription will be the same, as we hope ere 
long to be able to resume our weekly publication. We have 
concluded, by the advice of very many of our patrons, to 
advance the price of advertising, which yet leaves it the 
cheapest advertising medium of its class in this country (see 
schedule of charges at head of Exchange Column, which 
will go into effect after October 5). 

OUR NEW POSTER. 
A NEw agent in Massachusetts writes us: ‘‘ Your elegant 
posters for the Fanciers’ Journal came to hand duly. They 
are the best got up advertising sheet of their class I have 
ever seen. The engravings are very finely executed, and 
represent what is intended, to admiration. I accept the 
agency for your weekly, with pleasure, and will do all I 
can to promote your interests. One of the posters has been 
placed in our: post-office—the other in a leading store—and 
they are very attractive. I hope to send you a good list of 
names for your excellent paper, from this county, very 
shortly.” 

OUR FIRST-PAGE ILLUSTRATION, 
In the present number, will be recognized by every 
breeder of the popular ‘‘ Light Brahmas”’ as a beautiful 
drawing of a very fine specimen of this favorite American 
fowl. 
This picture represents a first-class bird, and is taken from 
a sixteen-months’ old pullet of the Burnham stock, in pos- 
session of Mr. W. S. Weymouth, of Melrose, Mass., a very 
successful breeder of this variety, who has given his personal 
attention to this breed exclusively for the last six or seven 
years—improving and perfecting the strain, from year to 
year, by practical and careful selection and mating his fowls 
for color, size, and feathering—until he has now brought his 
flocks (numbering this fall upwards of four hundred) toa 
degree of high perfection. 
Mr. Weymouth has placed in six breeding pens, forty- 
eight specimens of this fine stock, which he proposes to ex- 
| hibit at the New England shows this winter; and we are 
informed by those who have visited his extensive yards this 
season, that a more evenly matched and elegant collection 
of standard-bred Light Brahmas have never been seen to- 
gether, from one general parentage, than can now be found 
/in his runs. 
We refer the reader to this illustration again, and can 
only add that a more beautiful representation of a high- 
caste fowl of this popular species we have seldom seen. Mr. 
G. P. Burnham gives this bird as a standard representative 
of the race, in his new ‘‘ China Fowl,’ and we commend 
his good taste in this fortunate selection. 

WE are informed that Mr. William Clarendon, No. 603 
Warren Street, New York, has purchased the entire stock 
of game ‘fowls formerly owned by Mr. Isaac Van Winkle 
of Greenfield, N. J. Mr. Clarendon has certainly made a 
good beginning in purchasing the well-known strains of the 
above yard. 

CorRESPONDENCE, 
Lima, OHIO, Sept. 21st, 1874. 
J. M. Wapz, Esa. 
I see in your issue of the 17th inst., a disposition on your 
part to merge the immensely valuable and interesting weekly 
“ Fanciers’ Journal” into a semi-monthly or monthly 
journal. I regret that you should ever think of, or that 
circumstances should ever compel you to take such a step. 
The weekly issues of the Journal fill a vacuum which we 
have long felt ; in fact it has become a ‘“ necessity ;’’ we can- 
not do ‘¢ without it; a ‘¢ weekly’? wemusthave. Now let 
