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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
The remedy proposed by those who object to the Standard, 
is to assemble, after due notice, a convention of a majority 
of the fanciers of the country, where the payment of the 
large sum of $3 for admission, as at Buffalo, shall be done 
away with, and the adoption of a standard, after each sec- 
tion shall have been amended and approved by such a nu- 
merous convention, i. e., time and numbers, asserted as 
lacking at Buffalo, can make a better standard. This, it 
seems to me, is a radical mistake, even allowing that a 
greater number than at Buffalo could he brought together. 
Every one must be aware that the subject-matter would of 
necessity have to be prepared by committees ; as to its revi- 
sion, can not far more accuracy be had by each fancier in 
the country, without attending any convention, as many 
would he unable to do, who discovers any fault, giving 
notice of such discovery, as all are invited now to do, to the 
secretary of the Society, by whom such communications will 
be laid before a committee of revision? I read over the 
names of those who, at Buffalo, prepared the descriptions, 
&c., of each breed of fowls, and it appears to me that com- 
mittees appointed by any convention, such as Mr. Burnham 
or others might now cause to be assembled, could hardly be 
composed of better material. As to want of time, I venture 
the assertion, that no one to whom was referred the prepa- 
ration of that standard as to any particular fowl, came to, the 
Convention without having had the matter in his thoughts 
for months. And if we take, for instance, the committee on 
Light Brahmas, Messrs. Eelch, Wade, and Williams (if my 
memory be correct), and place them together, without a 
day’s preparation, and request them to give a description of 
Light Brahmas, with a scale of points, &c., who doubts 
that it would be sufficiently well done to form a standard 
for our guidance? Does Mr. Williams require long time 
and study, and books to describe a Brahma, or define a scale 
of points ? All these years of breeding, and judging, and 
study, are the preparations he has made, and a notice to him 
to be ready a year hence at any convention to perform this 
duty, would hardly find him better prepared. We must 
then accept the result of the work of these committees as 
good, unless we pronounce the members incompetent, and 
that objection has, I believe, not yet been made. Could any 
other convention improve matters otherwise than by select- 
ing better men for such committees? 
Mr. Halsted seems to have given an exhaustive resume 
of errors in his article in your journal, and yet I find not 
one which I believe would not have been eliminated, if the 
work had been placed in the hands of some competent per- 
son, like himself or Mr. Estes, to “edit,” with time to 
detect just such errors. A second edition will obviate such 
objections, much more easily to be corrected by a committee 
or by a single person, than by a new convention. 
As to the paucity of numbers at Buffalo, for which we 
must thank those who remained away, every fancier who 
was unable to vote there, and those too who were, now, after 
much time and discussion, is invited to state specifically, 
where and how the standard can be altered for the better ; 
and the Society promise, through a competent committee, I 
presume, to take into consideration, any and all such com- 
munications and act accordingly. This is our Centennial 
Convention, in which we can all present our views without 
fee or inconvenience, and until the Society manifestly dis- 
regard any just view presented to it, in its next edition, it 
seems to me, who am far away, and actuated by no party or 
partiality, that it should escape further censure. 
M. Eyre, Jr. 
Napa, California, June 22d, 1874. 
PoiJlj^y 
(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
HEN TALK. 
Tuck, tuck, tuck-a-tark, 
I cannot make a fuss all day ; 
Yet, whenever my work is done, 
I think I must have my say. 
Tuck, tuck, tuck-a-tark, 
Look in the barn, behind the hay, 
There you’ll find, in a cosy nest, 
The cause of my roundelay. 
Tuck, tuck, tuck-a-tark, 
The deed is done, here on a tray ; 
Little John is bringing the eggs, 
And I am driven away. 
Tuck, tuck, tuck-a-tark, 
Beware, young man, do not essay 
To proclaim to the world your deeds, 
It listens but to betray. 
Camp Stool. 
ARE EARLY CHICKENS PROFITABLE? 
With most of us when preptaring to enter into a new 
thing, the question that first presents itself is, will it pay? 
Early chickens are much care and trouble. It would be 
folly for a workingman with only an hour or two night and 
morning that he could call his own, to try to raise them. 
One must have time at all times of day, and every facility 
for raising the tender little things, for care they must have 
to make them pay. They should be got into market by the 
middle of June, and weigh from two to three pounds apiece 
at that time. They cannot be very fat, but can be plump 
and handsome; should be dry picked and well dressed, and 
they will command a good price. 
Chickens that will sell for one dollar or one dollar and a 
quarter each in June, will pay much better than late ones 
that will bring no more than that in the fall. When small 
they bear confinement well, and grow very fast if wisely fed, 
and by the first of June are no care comparatively speaking. 
We have had remarkable success raising early chicks, and 
do not hesitate to pronounce them profitable. But we can- 
not say we have had good success with turkej'S. Hatched 
out sixty-five. Have forty left, and still dying. They have 
had good care and good feed, have never been wet, been 
housed nights, &c., but still they die. They are the dearest 
little things, so tame and delicate, so pretty in their ways, 
and dependent upon our care and love, coming to the door 
and even into the kitchen for their meals, and then must 
