674 FANCIERS’ 
Head and Neck.—Black, each feather slightly laced or 
edged with gold. 
Breast.—Black, each feather very slightly edged with gold, 
and having a golden shaft; remainder of plumage black or 
greenish black. 
We prefer the laced breasts to either brown or streaky- 
breasted birds. Some fanciers prefer the hackles redder and 
the back more of a crimson; but the orange and crimson 
reds are equally admirable and are mere matters of taste. 
Isaac VAN WINKLE. 

PREMIUMS AWARDED TO POULTRY AT THE 
MICHIGAN STATE FAIR. 
For most varied and most valuable collection of poultry 
entered and owned by exhibitor, Ferguson & Howard, East 
Saginaw, Ist premium, $25. Two Light Brahma fowls, 
Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2. Two Light Brahma chickens, 
Minnie F. McQueen, Saginaw City, Ist, $2. Trio Dark 
Brahma fowls, Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2. Trio Dark 
Brahma fowls, Minnie F. McQueen, 2d, $1. Trio Dark 
Brahma chickens, Minnie F. McQueen, 2d, $1. Trio Buff 
Cochin fowls, Minnie F. McQueen, Ist, $2; Ferguson & 
Howard, 2d, $1. Trio Partridge or Grouse Cochin fowls, 
Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2; 2d, $1. Trio Partridge or 
Grouse Cochin chickens, Minnie F. McQueen, 2d, $1. Trio 
White Cochin fowls, Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2; 2d, $1. 
Pair Blue Game fowls, Wilkie Hodgson, East Saginaw, Ist, 
$2. Trio White Leghorns (yellow legs, single comb), 
Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2. Two White Leghorns, chick- 
ens (yellow legs, single combs), Ferguson & Howard, Ist, 
$2; Minnie F. McQueen, 2d, $1. Trio Black Polish chick- 
ens, Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2. Trio Golden Polish 
fowls, Minnie F. McQueen, Ist, $2. Trio Houdans chickens, 
Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2. Trio Silver Spangled Ham- 
burg fowls, Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2; Minnie F. Mc- 
Queen, 2d, $1. Trio Silver Spangled Hamburg chickens, 
Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2. Silver Pencilled Hamburg 
Fowls, Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2. Trio Silkie fowls, 
Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2. Trio Silkie chickens, Ferguson 
& Howard, Ist, $2. Trio Goldlaced Seabright Bantam fowls, 
Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2; 2d, $1. Pair Bronze Turkey 
fowls, Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2, Pair White Turkey 
fowls, G. C. Ferchan, Bridgeport, Ist, $2. Pair Musk or 
Muscovy ducks, H. Pistorius, Saginaw City, 1st, $2. Most 
varied collection of Pigeons by one exhibitor, Peter Lepp, 
East Saginaw, Ist, $10. Pied Pouter cock, Peter Lepp, Ist, 
$1; hen, 1st, $1. Carrier cock, Peter Lepp, 1st, $2; hen, 
Ist, $2. Fantail cock, Peter Lepp, Ist, $1; hen, 1st, $1. 
Pair White Fantails, Peter Lepp, Ist, $1. Jacobin cock, J. 
Tuthill, Hast Saginaw, Ist, $1; hen, Ist, $1. Swallow cock, 
Peter Lepp, Ist, $1. Antwerp cock, Peter Lepp, Ist, $1. 
Most varied and most valuable collection of singing birds 
entered and owned by one exhibitor, M. M. Wheeler, East 
Saginaw, Ist, $5. Pair German Canaries, M. M. Wheeler, 
Ist, $2. Pair Black ducks, H. Pistorius, Milwaukie, Ist, $1. 
Pair Chinese geese, D. Geddes, Saginaw City, Ist, $1. Trio 
Brown Leghorn fowls, Ferguson & Howard, Ist, $2; chicks, 
Ist, $2. Three Texan Bantams, Fred Koepplinger, East 
Saginaw, Ist, $1. 
A. F. WHEELER, 
J. D. YERKES, 
M. T. Norra, 
Awarding Committee, 
ges- At High Falls, New York, the other day, a young 
lady, while crossing a field, was knocked down by a ram, and 
the next time the damaged damsel saw her lover, she informed 
that astonished youth that he might go about his business, 
as she was disgusted with the sex. 

ges Eli Love, of Wayne County, Ohio, recently climbed 
a tree to shake down a coon. Eli, however, fell down him- 
self, and his dogs mistaking him for the game, tore him 
badly before they discovered the mistake. 

JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 




















Pigeon Departmeyr. 
(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
“BIG-EYED BLACK” TUMBLER. 
FRIEND WADE: 
Your article on Big-Eyed Tumblers, in No. 34 of the 
Journal, I perused with a great deal of interest—jirstly; 
‘because I have become much interested in this variety ; 
secondly, it helped to confirm my doubts as to their being a 
cross between a Barb and a Tumbler; and thirdly, it is an 
act of justice to a fine variety of pigeon, that has only been 
too little disseminated among fanciers. In No. 704 of 
London Journal of Horticulture, dated September 24, 1874, 
I find your article copied at length, with proper credit, and 
below a few comments from one of its regular contributors, 
‘“‘ Wiltshire Rector.” With due deference to his superior 
wisdom and lengthened experience in pigeon matters, I 
must say I think he is too hasty in his conclusions in regard 
to this particular variety; he should see a living specimen 
before declaring it either a Barb or a Tumbler spoiled. As 
to its origin, this of course, like many other Toys, is wrap- 
ped in mystery; but that it is a distinct variety who can 
doubt, when it has been known and perpetuated for so many 
years in one family as a Big-Eyed Tumbler, and always 
bred true in its particular points. As to its tumbling proper- 
ties, many of the specimens now in existence tumble, and I 
learned, only within a day or two, of one that would tum- 
ble inside. 
This bird having been bred for its eye properties princi- 
pally, is it any wonder that the tumbling propensity should 
in a measure have disappeared ; and because all specimens 
do not tumble, is it any less.a member of the Tumbler 
family? Whatever ‘‘ Wiltshire Rector ’’ or any other critic 
may believe, I cannot regard it as a Tumbler spoiled; other- 
wise, I regard it as a great improvement on the common 
long-faced Tumbler, and I have a specimen now in my lofts 
that would delight the heart of any true pigeon fancier. 
Since reading your article and the comments in the Journal 
of Horticulture, I have seen Mr. Wistar and talked with 
him, in his own lofts, surrounded by his feathered favorites, 
and where we could see and observe each particular bird at 
our leisure; from his own lips I heard repeated the facts as 
stated in your article; and sitting there and letting the mind - 
run back for fifty years, and remembering that this bird has 
been carefully bred, in the same family, for each successive 
year, by father and by son, who could presume to assert that 
this bird cannot too be classed with the “ grand old varieties,” 
and lay claim to a high position among them as well. 
Now, if this bird will bear the test of inbreeding, as it 
necessarily has had to do for so many years, does this not 
prove it to be an established variety, and neither ‘“ Barb nor 
Tumbler spoiled?” If no other evidence could be produced, 
the fact that these men have bred it for so many years should 
be proof enough ofits value. So carefully have they guarded 
the stock, that, outside of Philadelphia, they are but little 
