FANCIERS’ 
JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
393 

PREMIUM. 
JosEPH M. Wank. New York, June 8, 1874. 
Dear Sir: Desiring to see the Fanciers’ Journal in the 
hands of all pigeon fanciers and others, but especially the 
younger portion of ‘them, I make the following offer, if it 
_ will aid in any way in the circulation of the Journal: I will 
present to any one (all charges paid), who will send you 
the names, &e., of ten new subscribers, a pair of. Black 
Baldheads, from birds imported or bred here; or, in case the 
party would prefer cash, I will give the equivalent, $10. 
- You will please inform me when you have received the 
names, &. 
The subscriptions must be for one year; this offer begin- 
ning with July 1, 1874, and runs one year from that date. 
Yours truly, H. A. Brown. 
[ The above is a liberal offer, and we cheerfully give it a 
.place in our columns. Mr. Brown has been a true friend to 
the Journal from the first, and has sent us many subscribers. 
—Ep.] 
Jos. M. Wapr. Esa. WARNER, N. H., June 10, 1874. 
Dear Sir: I wish you would give, through the columns 
of the Fanciers’ Journal, the usual method of sending (by 
express) a hen with chickens. I have fifty to ship about 
July first—all to the same party. Shall I put each hen and 
her chicks together; or all the hens in one box, and the 
chicks in another? An early answer will be of great bene- 
fit to me; and, I presume, to many others. 
Very respectfully, 

Se WILLIS. 
[| We have never had occasion to ship a hen and chickens, 
but should much prefer to put them in the same box, with a 
wire or lath partition to separate them; and yet let them 
see each other. Put the drinking cup in the partition so it 
can be used from either side—the same with feed-box. 
Make good provision for water, or they will suffer much 
this hot weather.—ED. ] 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
HYBRIDS. 
Epiror FANCIERS’ JOURNAL. 
My Dear Sir: Accept my thanks for your kindness in 
sending me the copy of the Journal of Horticulture, con- 
taining Mr. Hewitt’s correction of the typographical error 
occurring in my articleon Hybrids. I should dislike to 
misrepresent Mr. Hewitt. The sentence should have read 
the Pheasant cock, instead of the Golden Pheasant cock. 
Mr. Hewitt is not mistaken when he says that the Golden 
Pheasant cock will not cross ‘‘ with any description of our 
domestic poultry,’’ for my friend, Dr. C. Lyon (the gentle- 
man I referred to in my article), showed me a Golden 
Pheasant cock which actually mated and crossed with a 
domestic hen, when on his father’s plantation, but the 
hybrid did not live to maturity. Strange freaks of nature 
are occasionally exhibited under favorable circumstances, | 
when patient observers look unsuccessfully for a life time 
to accomplish the result which has occurred by accident. 
Yours, very truly, James §. Barttey, M.D. 

THAT ‘‘ SAILOR FROM LUCKIPON.’’ 
Mr. Epiror: 
Is it not about time for ‘ the sailor’? who came to New 
York, in 1849, first, and in 1869, twenty years afterwards, 

to turn up again, somewhere, with some Burrampooters fowls | 
from Luckyport, in Ingy, or elsewhere? We should not won- 
der if this ‘‘ancient mariner’’ should now be trotted out 
again, in view of the ‘‘ Brahma-Pootra’’ controversy, latterly 
revived, though all the parties had forgotten in 1852, and up 
to 1869, this sailor’s name, or never knew it. 
HarrrorD, Conn., January 5, 1874. BrEG@uM, JR. 

Sate Pet Department. 
4a> All communications and contributions intended for this depart- 
ment should be addressed to HOWARD I. IRELAND, 318 Stevens Street, 
Camden, N. J., or care of Josepu M. WanDE, 39 North Ninth St., Philada. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
PETS AND CHILDREN. 
THE care of pets has a beneficial influence upon the health 
and character of children. In attending to them, the time 
which most probably would be spent in idleness, or worse 
still, among bad associates, is occupied in healthful and in- 
structive amusement. Children always learn about the habits, 
peculiarities, &c., of the animals which they keep as pets. 
And a very dull boy it is, who having rabbits will not eagerly 
read and remember everything he can find concerning them. 
‘« From little beginnings great ends are produced,”’ and the 
love for nature’s beauties has often sprung from the keeping 
of pets. Many great naturalists will say this. 
I admit it is very inconvenient to have one’s house filled 
with old bird-cages, squirrel, and white mice boxes; the yard 
covered with rabbit-hutches or bantam runs; the garret 
turned into a pigeon loft, or the choicest spot in the lawn 
occupied by a fish pond. But we must remember our chil- 
dren’s characters are now forming, and that it rests with us, 
in a good measure, whether they shall contract habits bene- 
ficial or injurious. We must keep in mind the fact, that 
habits formed in youth, good or bad, will cling to them 
throughout their future lives; and if we prevent our chil- 
dren from forming evil associates we do a good for them for 
which they will bless us in future years. And when your 
son rushes into the room with a rabbit under each arm, and 
a pair of white mice in his pocket, with eyes beaming with 
pride and love, and cheeks made rosy by exercise, and lay his 
pets before us for our approval, instead of greeting him 
with a cold glance and the pets with a look of disgust, pour 
words of encouragement into his ears, and kindly pat the 
little creatures, thanking God that it is not the wine-bottle 
or the card-pack with which he is so infatuated. 
One bad habit in particular, incident to childhood, the care 
of pets will overcome; a habit which will have to be shaken 
off before they can enter upon the stern duties of business life. 
I mean late rising, which, if allowed to get a firm hold, 
would deprive them of one-fourth of their worldly lives. If 
you have a son upon whom this habit has fixed itself, buy a 
pair of rabbits, construct a hutch for them, and tell your boy 
if he will rise every morning at five o’clock and feed the 
rabbits they are his, if not you know a boy who would be 
glad to do so. Most likely he will joyfully accede to your 
request. By degrees the habit of late rising will be conquered, 
and a new one grafted in its stead, worth to him many hun-. 
dred pairs of rabbits. 
Upon the health of sickly and delicate children the habit 
of early rising and caring for pets has a most salutary infla- 
ence, and instilling in their minds many ideas of much moral 
worth. 
Before allowing children to keep pets of any sort, it is 
better to exact from them a promise that they will be punc- 
tual in attending to the wants of the little animals placed 
so entirely in dependence on them for food and attention. 


(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
TO TRAIN WHITE MICE. 
TueEsE little Albinos of the mouse tribe may be taught 
many tricks and antics. Male mice are preferred to female 
