FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
473 
CoF^ESf 3 0|^DE|'JCE. 
Mr. Editor: 
Interested in all that pertains to poultry, I have felt much 
interest in the new standard. But, I cannot say that I have 
been by the articles that have appeared in the poultry jour- 
nals with reference to it, because they have been (with 
exceptions) of a personal and abusive character. They 
have caused bad feelings ; bred distrust ; divided effort ; and 
have been injurious to the poultrj’- interest. Discussion of 
the standard and its get-up, I for one, and there are no 
doubt many others, would have gladly welcomed. Discus- 
sion would have caused study and thought, and given new 
interest, and led to renewed labor. Now, in reference to 
the new standard ; it is certain that the Convention at Buf- 
falo (if I have a correct idea of that organization) could 
have made just such standards as it saw lit. If said stand- 
ard was for the use and guidance of its own members, its 
approval by others would be to them a matter of indiffer- 
ence. But, if it was made for the use and guidance of all 
the poultry fancy, they would desire the approval of all. 
Having this desire, they would undoubtedly have courted 
criticism, and any errors of oversight or judgment pointed 
out to them, they would no doubt have rectified as soon as 
possible. Any points in regard to which there are real 
differences of opinion, let us have them discussed (not 
insinuations and personalities), but let us have proper, gen- 
tlemanly discussions, that fanciers may be edified, and their 
knowledge increased. F. 
PiqEojI DEp^TpEflp 
PAIR OF CARRIERS. 
(See Plate.) 
By the kindness of Mr. John Yewdall, an amateur of this 
city, we are enabled to give this week a fine illustration of a 
pair of Carriers, imported this season, and which our artist 
sketched from life. We can assure our readers that the artist 
has not done them full justice, especially in carri age. The 
head of the cock is very correct, as seen from a side view, but 
when seen in the loft he is much finer than in the picture. 
The head of the hen is not so well done, and both look much 
better when seen from above, or in the loft. This pair of birds 
were imported this season from London, at a cost of £45, 
sterling, besides expenses. The cock is coming three years 
old; the hen is two years old. Mr. Yewdall also owns the 
father of the above cock. He is past his prime as a show 
bird, but is breeding well this season with a hen that took 
second premium in her class at the National Exhibition, 
held in New York last winter. This gentleman also owns 
the hen that took first premium at the above show. She is 
breeding with a fine cock imported by him this season, which, 
considering his age, is almost perfect in the leading points 
of a Carrier, and is one of the best birds in this country. 
Besides the two pairs above mentioned, Mr. Yewdall has 
several pairs of his own raising, which for size of eye and 
beak wattle, narrowness of skull, and length of beak, are 
seldom equalled in any loft ; taking them altogether, as a loft 
they are not excelled in this country. This gentleman makes 
a specialty of Carriers and Pouters, and has some of the 
latter that have few, if any, superiors, even in England. 
We have a promise, at an early day, of giving an illustra- 
tion of one or more of the best Pouters raised this season. 
MOORE’S WORK ON PIGEONS. 
(Continued from page 458.) 
The best way is to put your salt cat in jars, with holes in 
the sides for them to peck it out, and a cork at top to pre- 
vent their dunging on it, and to keep off the rain, or any 
other contingencies if exposed to the weather. 
DISTEMPERS OF PIGEONS. 
We come now to treat of the several distempers incident 
to birds of this kind, and to prescribe the various remedies 
generally made use of in their cure. 
1. The first disease therefore that we shall take notice of 
is, the corruption of the egg in the uterus. This generally 
p.roceeds from an unmatched hen being over salacious, by 
reason of high feeding, or some other cause, who will often 
without the coition of the male engender eggs, but seldom 
without his concurrence either perfect them or bring them 
forth, so that they will corrupt in the womb ; the only 
remedy for this is to put her to a cock in time. 
2. The wet roup next falls under our consideration, and 
in this case, once in two or three days give them three or 
four peppercorns at most, and put a handful of green rue in 
their water ; you may let all your pigeons drink of it, for it 
is very healthful. 
3. The dry roup, which you generally distinguish by a 
husky cough, and I am apt to believe proceeds from a cold, 
to which they are very liable, especially in moulting time; 
to cure this, give them every day three or four cloves of 
garlic. 
4. The next distemper that falls under our cognizance is 
the canker, which proceeds mostly from the cocks fighting 
and pecking each other, though some people have assured 
me that giving them water in a tin vessel will likewise 
throw them into this disease. The method of cure is this: 
Take burnt alum and honey and rub the part affected every 
day, and it will cure it ; but if this happens not to take effect, 
dissolve five grains of Roman vitriol in half a spoonful of 
wine vinegar, add it to the former composition, and rub the 
part affected. Some people will take off the scurf and make 
it bleed before they apply the remedy, but I am apt to be- 
lieve you will generally find it searching enough without. 
5. If the wattles or flesh round the eyes of the Carrier, 
Horseman, or Barb are pecked and torn, wash them first 
with stale urine for several days ; if this does not do, dis- 
solve two drachms of alum in an ounce and a half of water, 
and wash the part grieved ; but if the case be very stubborn, 
mix twenty grains of red precipitate with half an ounce of 
honey, anoint the part therewith, and it will certainly effect 
the cure. 
C. Pigeons, especially in the summer season, are apt to be 
troubled with small insects, which the Fanciers term lice; 
in this case smoke their feathers well with the smoke of 
tobacco, and it will infallibly kill them. 
