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JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
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has indeed been modified in some degree in each edition of 
“The Brahma Fowl,” precisely as further evidence reached 
me on the subject, I have done Mr. Burnham no injustice 
in the least point, his own published writings being witness. 
And I ask you, sir, to publish my replies, and that other 
American papers who have been filled latterly with Mr. 
Burnham’s letters, will also copy them. I, too, now ask 
for this ‘“‘simple justice.” I shall not occupy probably 
the space he has done, and as he himself has made the matter 
one between ‘‘ Wright and Burnham,” I ask that those who 
have inserted his statements will insert mine. 
L. WRIGHT. 
Lonpon, July 25, 1874. 
THE LATE NEW YORK MEETING. 
Jos. M. Waps, Esa. 
DEAR Sir: In view of the highly satisfactory results 
attending the Convention of the Executive Committee of 
“The American Poultry Association”? in New York city, 
July 22, 23, and 24, before whom appeared a large number 
of leading American fanciers and breeders from different 
States, in response to a public invitation to present their ob- 
jections to the late ‘“‘Standard of Excellence,’ feel it their 
duty to make a public acknowledgment of the courteous 
manner with which they were received by the committee 
and the patience with which they were heard. We there- 
fore congratulate the committee and the fraternity of poultry 
men of the country upon the satisfactory results of their 
labors, and the adoption of their views by the committee. 
Having conceded to the undersigned, on behalf of the 
conscientious and earnest ‘‘opponents” of the new standard, 
all that we claimed or desired in the way of alterations, 
corrections, and revisions, by a unanimous vote, we feel it 
due to the committee, as well as just to ourselves and those 
we represented, to place upon the record through the poultry 
journals, that we labored from the outset in this discussion, 
through the press and in the convention, only for what we 
deemed the general good of the poultry men of America. 
It affords us, therefore, sincere gratification to state that 
the committee met us in a conciliatory and kindly spirit, 
and after hearing us at great length with marked attention, 
they accorded to us all that we could reasonably ask for in 
the most liberal and satisfactory manner. 
Measures were promptly taken for the appointment of a 
Supervisory Committee, to correct all errors, omissions, and 
discrepancies in the lately Revised Standard ; the ‘ Instruc- 
tions to Judges’’ were changed to ‘‘ Suggestions,” and it is 
left to societies and judges to adopt said advice and sugges- 
tions, or not, at their option; and one official compiler (or 
editor) was determined on, to finally put in form the cor- 
rected copy for the American Standard—when all the pro- 
posed additions, changes, and corrections are submitted—in 
shape for the re-revision. 
Weare satisfied that the recent public discussion of the 
merits and demerits of the new standard, in which the un- 
dersigned have taken a somewhat active part, has resulted 
in permanent and widespread benefit to the cause; and we 
would add, that through the columns of the Fanciers’ Jour- 
nal especially, because of its weekly issue (and the willing- 
ness of the proprietor to give all sides a fair hearing on the 
subject), are we indebted largely for the bringing about of 
this meeting of the American Poultry Association directly, 
and indirectly the favorable and judicious results now at- 
tained with the Executive Committee. The undersigned 


deem it indispensable to the poultry men of America that 
they should have a medium for quickly conveying their views 
throughout the country—a paper that is large and liberal 
in its views, willing that all sides should be heard, and 
as jealously devoted to their interests as to its own. The 
advantages of a weekly poultry paper for advertising and for 
news cannot be too highly appreciated. It creates a quicker 
market and more active movements in stock ; makes us bet- 
ter acquainted with each other and more united in our inter- 
ests. It fully expresses the old adage that a ‘‘ nimble six- 
pence is better than the slow shilling.”’ 
We call upon all the friends of the cause to give to the 
Fanciers’ Journal their active and continuous support, by 
subscriptions and advertisements, in order that a weekly 
poultry paper so deserving may be sustained and generally 
supported, toward the furtherance of the common good of 
societies and individuals generally in the interests of the 
fancy. . 
We desire to present our thanks to all other poultry jour- 
nals who have aided in effecting the agreeable results at- 
tained, and we would unitedly say to the Executive Com- 
mittee of the American Poultry Association, before whom 
we recently presented our ‘‘grievances,’”’ that the course 
they adopted in New York meets with our hearty appro- 
val, and we now feel that the forthcoming new edition of 
the standard will be such a one as may and ought to be 
accepted, in its revised form, by every poultry organization 
in the country. Respectfully, 
Gro. P. BuRNHAM, 
S. J. Busror, 
Isaac VAN WINKLE. 

“DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK.” 
Epitor FANCIERS’ JOURNAL: 
‘¢A remarkable incident occurred in this city yesterday 
afternoon—so remarkable that probably the like of it was 
never before known. Some swallows were flying over the 
Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Savings Bank, on Prince Street, 
when one of them suddenly made a dart at the point of one 
of the lightning-rods that protect the building, and com- 
mitted suicide by impaling itself thereon. Transfixed as it 
was it fluttered for a considerable time, its companions flying 
around it, apparently in the most excited state, until it be- 
came quiet, and died in its exalted sphere.’”’—Alexandria, 
Va., Gazette. 
The above was cut from the S¢. Louis Globe of July 
25th, and in order to more fully establish the truism that 
“there is nothing new under the sun,’’ I would say that a 
similar incident occurred here at the residence of 8S. Stahl, 
Ksq., in June last, except that in this case we labored under 
the impression that the swallow was returning from an acrial 
flight with more than usual zest to its nest in the chimney, 
alongside of which the lightning-rod was fixed, and that in 
its impetuous descent did not descry the glaring point, and 
became transfixed thereon, where it helplessly fluttered, and 
poured out its sweet life amid the sympathetic cries, flittings, 
and whirlings of its fellows. 
The thermometer at the time ranging in the nineties, the 
bird soon became a preserved specimen, whose wings and tail 
fully expanded amply attests that death still loves a shining 
mark. EH. W. Goopwin, M.D. 
Moro, Manpison Co., Ints. 
Epiror FANCIERS’ JOURNAL. 
Can you, or any of your readers, inform me why Leghorn 
fowls pick out and eat each other’s feathers more than other 
