312 FANCIERS’ 
JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by JosepH M. 
WADE, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
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JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 

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SHERMAN & Co., PRINTERS, PHILADELPHIA. 

Tue Bucks. County Poultry Association intend to occupy 
a front seat the approaching season. Its members are making 
every effort to secure good and honorable judges, completing 
an elaborate premium list, securing fine stock, &c. They 
also have under consideration the desirability of changing 
the name of Bucks County Poultry Association to Hastern 
Pennsylvania Poultry Association, which we think a good 
idea, if adopted, inasmuch as the Hastern division of Penn- 
sylvania has not been fully represented (in name at least) as 
the ‘‘ Western ’’ has. The members are in earnest, and we be- 
lieve the society would be worthy of its contemplated name. 
From present indications, Doylestown and its vicinity will 
soon become noted for its shows of fowls as well as for its 
highly successful agricultural exhibitions, We learn that one 
of the officers, Dr. A. M. Dickie, has just secured what is 
reported to be the best trio of Dominiques in New England. 

As we go to press, a note is received from Mr. Fry, of 
Vineland, N. J., a large breeder of fancy fowls, saying that 
a disease has made its appearance among his Light Brahmas 
and Buff Cochins, which threatens to carry off the whole 
flock. So far, those from one to four weeks old only have 
been attacked. The first symptom is closing of the eyes, 
which the chick apparently has not the power to open, and 
stands about moping. The younger ones either die off at this 
stage or the heads swell and water runs out of the eyes. 
They refuse to eat (perhaps because they cannot see, which 
would seem reasonable), dwindle away, and die. So far, such 
remedies as have been tried have been of no avail. 
If any of our readers have had a similar experience and 
know of a certain cure, we shall be glad to publish it for the 
benefit of all concerned. 
To us the affection seems to be of the nature of an influ- 
enza or cold, which is communicated. Asa preventive we 
should feed those able to eat with coarse ground corn and 
oat meal, mixed with a little cayenne pepper and salt, well 
scalded, and given while warm for breakfast and supper. 
This might also be fed in pellets to those unable to see. We 
would dissolve in their drinking water a piece of copperas, 
or about a teaspoonful to two quarts. 

CorrESpoNDENCE, 
(For Fanciers’ J ournal.) 
PREMIUM FOR SUBSCRIBERS. 
Mr. WADE. 
Feeling an interest in sustaining a poultry weekly, also 
having a pecuniary interest (having adopted your Journal 
as an advertising medium), we will make the following offer 
in addition to the premiums offered by the publisher: To 
the first person sending you cash for three new subscribers : 
we will send, delivered free at Fitchburg, Mass., Express 
Company’s oflice, four dozen Ashby nest eggs, or one sit- 
ting Aylesbury Duck eggs, or one sitting Partridge Cochin 
eggs, or one sitting White Leghorn eggs. For description 
of all the above, see advertisement in this Jowrnal. 
A. & L. DeMmon. 
Pet Farm, ASHBY, MaAss., May 1, 1874. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
Jos. M. WanDz, Esa. 
DEAR Str: Inclosed please find check to pay year’s sub- 
scription for Jowrnal; balance place to my credit. I fully 
intended sending you advertisement, but it would only add 
to my trouble, as orders are coming in faster than I can 
supply them. I am glad to inform you that the fancy is 
spreading in Canada, and that the majority of my orders 
are Canadian. I am very much pleased with the Journal, 
and wish it every success, hoping it may go on and prosper 
in your hands. Will not fail to send advertisement in due 
time. Yours truly, DANIEL ALLEN. 
GALt, ONT., CANADA, April 28, 1874. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
NEST EGGS. 
No one thing in the poultry business has caused us more 
trouble and vexation than nest eggs. Years ago we used a 
common egg, and every little while got a sound rating from 
our customers for leaving them an egg addled or with a 
half-hatched chick in it. Then we tried old eggs plainly 
marked with ink, and the shells would wear thin and break, 
and so give the hens a bad habit. Next came glass eggs, 
but they were heavy and hard, and the hens’ eggs were fre- 
quently broken by contact with them, so that the hens 
acquired the habit of eating them, and so destroyed the use- 
fulness of the entire flock. We have been trying the xo 
nest egg system this season, but the biddies are continually 
seeking new nests, and as soon as the snow is off the ground 
lay everywhere but where you want them to. But now we 
feel like exclaiming Eureka! Weare using with great satis- 
faction. the Ashby nest eggs, made of a hard wood, but very 
light and elastic, and seem to be ‘about the thing.” No 
hens’ eggs are broken, and there is no breaking the nest 
eggs. EK. 8. Demmon. 
FiTcHBuRG, Mass., May 2, 1874. 
(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
THE NEW STANDARD. 
Mr. Jos. M. Wanbz. 
Drar Sir: There are but few who are satisfied, and per- 
haps justly so, with the new standard, but I think that they 
are too strong in their condemnation of those that labored 
at Buffalo to get up the standard. They forget in their 
condemnation, I think, that they were all invited to attend, 
ae alas sae aia he. 
