ANCIERS’ 
JOURNAL 
i AND 
POULTRY EXCHANGE. 


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PHILADELPHIA, MAY 28, 1874. 
No. 22. 






























































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(See PouLTRY DEPARTMENT.) 


A NATIONAL POULTRY STANDARD. 
“And no discerner 
Durst wag his tongue in censure.” 
Epiror FANCIERS’ JOURNAL. 
I have received a number of letters from different parts 
of the country, desiring me to express my views about the 
“American Poultry Standard,” as adopted at Buffalo last 
December, as well as the modus operandi of its getting up. 
Having written so much on this standard business, I had 
supposed the poultry people had become familiar with my 
views, and for this reason I have purposely remained quiet. 
I rather preferred to watch the current of opinion, and see 
how the actions of the American Poultry Association would | 
be received by the poultry fanciers of the country. And I 
must confess I have not been disappointed in my expectations. 
Knowing as well as I do that this Association is composed 
of some of the most intelligent and respectable fanciers, I 
am the more surprised at the result of their labors, and can 
account for the inaccuracies and incompleteness of their 
standard only by the hastiness of their action, or that some of 
the committees appointed were inadequate to the perform- 
ance of the work assigned to them. This is the only way I 
can look at the matter; and feel bound to condemn in the 
severest terms the unwarranted assertion that this standard 
was got up to suit the parties in interest. There surely was 
no necessity for an organized society to undertake this work, 
