
FANCIERS’ 
JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
357 

Vermilion, Ohio: We received the eggs (twenty-eight in 
number), the 30th day of March last, very ingeniously 
packed in a light, strong box, with cushions extending across 
the ends, covering about two-thirds of the bottom; ‘the 
cover securely fastened by screws, with strong hickory han- 
dle; directions plain and easily read, with the customary 
directions to carriers. A perfectly safe package for trans- 
porting eggs any distance. Three nests had been prepared 
for the eggs, and the hens nicely sitting before the eggs 
arrived. Upon their arrival they were immediately placed 
under the hens—ten under one, nine under each of the 
others. From the twenty-eight eggs we obtained twenty- 
three nice chicks—eleven Dark and twelve Light Brahmas. 
At the present writing they are all well and thrifty. The 
distance travelled is more than twenty-seven hundred miles. 
By rail it is twenty-six hundred and seventy; by stage 
twenty-eight; horseback six. This result, after a trial of 
railway, stage, and horseback travelling, completely does 
away with the notion that ‘‘travelled eggs will not hatch.”’ 
Our success is due, first, to the honesty of the seller in send- 
ing fresh eggs; second, to the faithful and scientific manner 
in which they were packed; third, to our own care of the 
eggs and hens while sitting. 
Nine-tenths of the misfortunes resulting in failures, we 
believe, occur through mismanagement or neglect on the 
part of the buyer placing too many eggs under the hens, 
and not giving them proper attention while sitting. To 
meet with success, requires care and attention from the 
time the eggs are placed under the hen until the chicks are 
removed. 
If the purchaser of valuable eggs would always perform 
his duty as faithfully as he expects the seller to perform his, 
we would have less charges of dishonesty, and less fault- 
finding with Express companies, &c., &. 
We send you this result, hoping you will Sort it for 
the benefit of all fanciers and breeders. 
Respectfully, Burrum & Sree aid 
HornirTos, Cau., May 15, 1874. 

DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. 
How many times in our school days have we followed in 
our writing books the copy ‘‘ Many men of many minds?” 
Well, it is true, for were we all agreed, this world would 
lack sadly that variety needed as the spice of life. Thus, 
our friend Pitkin thinks chickens can be killed with kind- 
ness, while we do not. We have chickens of all ages, from 
forty-eight hours to three months—Light and Dark Brah- 
mas, Plymouth Rocks, and Partridge Cochins. We kept 
them housed most of the time, until within a fortnight. 
They occupied warm, dry rooms, with sanded floor and 
plenty of sun—no fire. Have warmed bricks and planks 
and laid on the floor for them to stand upon many a time 
during March and April. Have one hundred and seventy- 
five, and have fed them upon everything you can think of, 
but ‘‘ addled eggs.”’ Eggs boiled hard, aig yolks only being 
used ; bread crumbs soaked in milk; meat of all kinds. I 
prefer during cold weather, beef suet chopped fine. At the 
present time I feed beef scraps, bought in Boston by the 
quantity, soaked in boiling water and fed when cool; grease 
of all kinds in small qnantities stirred into their dough ; 
onions, cabbage, and grass; clover heads picked from the 
hay mow; grass seed gathered from the barn floor under the 
hay; hemp seed; mud worms cut up and mixed with fresh 



earth, which has been warmed and dried in a dripping pan 
on the stove, and put in piles for them to scratch over and 
dust themselves in ; Indian meal and shorts; oatmeal baked; 
Indian meal tics pounded or cracked corn; ground Bade 
and wheat, not screenings, as we do not tatistass them profit- 
able. How is that for variety? They have plenty of fresh 
warmth, and no sickness, and a more lively flock of chickens 
you would never wish to see; always ready for their rations, 
which they get with punctuality five times a day. I feed 
them at six, nine, one, three, and six. Onions we do not 
recommend, as we have seen—as friend Pitkin says—our 
chickens so paralyzed as to show a desire to stand on their 
heads rather than their feet, soon after eating them, acting 
very much like those ‘little witches ’? we used to make with 
bits of lead and piths from the corn stalk, that would pop 
over so curiously if stood upon the end not leaded. 
I forgot the salt. We give them salt in their food every 
day, they never miss it from their puddings and cakes any 
more than we do from ours. We never saw a case of gapes 
that we know of, neither of roup, or any of the diseases so 
fatal to chickens. 
One of our neighbors lost every one of his turkey chicks 
last spring, in the manner referred to in the last Fanciers’ 
Journal. They became blind, refused to eat, and drooped 
and died. We have had two or three blind chickens this 
spring, but hope it will not prove a disease. Sa Bas. 
West AMESBURY, Mass., May 19, 1874. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
A PUZZLE. 
A FANCIER sends the following letter to us to decipher, 
and at the same time he thinks it would puzzle a Phila- 
delphia lawyer. We agree with him, and certainly cannot 
recommend it as a model order for eggs, which it appears 
to be intended for: 
SUFFIELD May 16th 1874 
DiaR Str I was reading your Advertisement in the paper 
about your eggs for Hatching they are $2.00 per doz. if I 
take a doz and when they are Hatched I will give you one 
or two if you will do so please send on one doz partrige 
Cochin eggs if not please write to the Address of 

Write soon (No address being given.) 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
CONNECTICUT POULTRY NOTES. 
THE State Society held its regular quarterly meeting ,in 
Hartford, May 12th, which was largely attended, and was 
in session from 10 aM. to 4 p.m. The constitution was 
amended so that the number of Vice-Presidents shall be fif- 
teen, instead of two, as formerly, and the following gentle- 
men. were elected: Charles R. Hart, Hartford, First Vice- 
President; Charles H. Crosby, Danbury; H. W. Conklin, 
Hartford ; George W. Bradley, Hamden; T. A. Todd, New 
Haven; 8S. J. Bestor, Hartford; Charles L. Mitchell, New 
Haven; W.H. Lockwood, Hartford; S. A. Bassett, New 
Haven; H. L. Welch, Hartford; J. Boardman Smith, 
North Haven; Edward S. Brewer, Hartford; A. EH. Hart, 
Hartford; C. C. Plaisted, Hartford; Charles Ruickholdt, 
New Haven. It was voted to make the entrance fee at the 
next exhibition one dollar per coop on fowls and fifty cents 
on pigeons and minor pets. A large amount of routine 
business was transacted, and important measures inaugu- 
rated toward preparing for the next annual exhibition, 
