FANCIERS’ 
Syracuse, New York, to the Revising Committee on Games 
and Game Bantams. This is an excellent choice, and we 
hope Mr. Howlett will find it convenient to serve, for he 
has had a long experience with high class Game Bantams. 
It might be well, at this time, to remind our readers that 
it is advisable for those having changes to propose in the 
Constitution or By-Laws of the American Poultry Associ- 
ation, or any suggestion to make in regard to revising the 
standard, should do so previous to the twenty-fifth of this 
month, and not wait until the meeting at Buffalo, which 
will be a busy one, and committees at that time will be too 
much engaged to listen to new propositions. All communi- 
tions should be addressed to Ed. 8. Ralph, Secretary of the 
American Poultry Association, Buffalo, New York. 
ENTERPRISE. 
We are pleased to call attention to the advertisement of 
J. ¥F. Ferris, in the present number of the Journal. He 
certainly makes it a very easy matter to obtain the Journal 
for 1875. To those of his purchasers who are already sub- 
scribersit will give them a chance to make a present of the 
Journal to a friend. 



THE advance copy of Fulton’s Book of Pigeons, No. 8, is 
at hand. The illustrations are exceedingly fine, being in 
Mr. Ludlow’s best style. The Blue Pied Powter cock is ab- 
solutely perfect and is well work the price of the book alone. 
On the first page are four figures, Blue-Wing Turbiteen, 
Black- Wing Turbiteen, both crested ; also, Yellow and Red- 
Wing Turbiteens, plain heads; these are perfect little gems 
and, we believe, entirely new to this country. The letter 
press is a continuation of the description of the Pouter, and 
is most thorough and searching. Mr. Fulton, like Mr. 
Wright, in making a book does not depend entirely upon 
his own practical knowledge, but embodies all the knowl- 
edge of his brother fanciers and previous writers. This 
work should be in the hands of every fancier in this country. 
It is mailed from this office at 50 cents per number, and will 
be completed in twenty-five numbers. 


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NOTES UPON NOS. 43 & 44. 
Epitor FANciERS’ JOURNAL: 
I had hoped that we were to *have no more Wright v. 
Burnham, or vice versa, and thought that even Mr. Van 
Winkle had finished up in his criticism of the World; but, 
in your leniency and good nature, I see these belligerents 
are allowed to ‘‘ keep up the shake’ in your last issue. Why 
not ‘let us have peace’? awhile, now? I go for the largest 
liberty in this direction; but, as Hamlet (or some other 
body) has it, ‘‘ Something too much of this!’ 
“Clinton” hits the spike flat on the head, in his article 
on Pedigree Poultryjin your last number, when he says any 
one may register fowl stock by paying twenty-five cents for 
it, and the worthless is thus placed on an equality with the 
best. And, further, that unprincipled owners will thus enter 
their fowls, because they think it a good advertising plan, 
and they can dispose of their thus ‘‘ pedigreed birds ’’ more 
readily. This is so; and very many of these birds are so 
registered and sold for what they are not, as I can affirm, 
positively, of ny own knowledge. 
In answer to ‘‘ J. A. L.’’ I should say that ‘‘ the best col- 
lection’’ in the show-room is understood to be the best in 
number, quality, size, forwardness for age, similarity, sym- 
metry, and practical points for good breeders; no matter 

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whether any one or two trios of such a lot have taken first, 
second, or third prizes. The best collection, as I understand 
this term, is the best, all things considered, of the largest 
number of old and young fowls shown, all these being bred 
or owned by the one contributor thus competing for the pre- 
mium ‘for best and largest collection.’’ It seems clear to 
my mind that this is not ambiguous; and the fact that to a 
few birds among the lot are awarded prizes (or not), indi- 
vidually, should have no bearing upon the general character, 
comparatively, of the whole number thus exhibited by any 
one person. I think fair judges would thus decide uniformly. 
I was gratified to notice a considerable increase in your 
advertising patronage in your last issue. It is now the sea- 
son when this sort of communication between sellers and 
buyers is most desirable; and this year’s chickens have this, 
and will next month, become mature in growth and fit for 
the shows, or for fresh stock in the fanciers’ yards. We all 
want to know who has good birds, and popular strains from 
which we may select acceptable specimens. I hope that 
breeders will see the manifest advantages of advertising in 
a paper issued twice a month (or weekly) over one put out 
only monthly, or once in five or six weeks, as most of the 
nominal ‘‘ monthlies ’”’ have come to hand of late. 
Very glad to read your encouraging remarks in reference 
to the continuance of the Fanciers’ Journal through 1875, 
We shall do all we can, this way, to help you in both sub- 
scriptions and advertising. If every one does his best we 
shall be able to start our favorite poultry paper off with a 
good outlook for next year, sure. I most heartily wish you 
the fullest success, Yours, ete., SPANGLE, 

CorresponveNce. 

THE STANDARD: HOW MADE. 
FRIEND WADE: 
I find, occasionally, some writer alluding to certain fowls 
that were at the Buffalo show last winter, as the ones from 
-which the standard was made, and some even claim that their 
birds are the best because the standard was made from them. 
Now I will venture to state that not a single committee who 
worked on the standard at that time ever used a single bird to 
make a standard by. They were not foolish enough for that. 
They all knew that the best birds failed in one or more 
points. No doubt they compared birds with the standard 
and thus endeavored to correct faults whether found in one 
or the other. I can speak knowingly as to the committee on 
Water Fowls and Turkeys, from the fact that I worked most 
of the time (with the other members) for three days and 
three nights; and we, of course, compared birds with the 
standard, but we did not revise the standard to suit any- 
body’s birds. J. Y. BICKNELL. 
WESTMORELAND, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1874. 
FOWLS FOR PROFIT. 
Epirork FANCIERS’ JOURNAL. 
Dear Sir: I am desirous of embarking in the poultry 
business, on a small scale, with a view of producing poultry 
and eggs for market, and have decided to seek information 
on the subject, through the columns of your valuable paper ; 
therefore, will be greatly obliged to you if you will insert 
the following : 
I wish to produce a fowl with bright yellow legs, and 
skin of a golden buttery hue, that will, when dressed for mar- 
ket, attract the eye of the epicure. I propose to use pure bred 
Light Brahma hens, but am undecided as to what breed the 
cock should be from; have thought of trying a Silver-Gray 
Dorking, but am afraid they will not mature quick enough, 
or might have white legs; the Brown Leghorn might do if 
it were not for the large comb and wattles; I am almost 
confident that the American Dominique would be just the 
thing. What I want is to produce a cross bred fowl, that 


