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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
ASTCIEBS'JjoUBNAL AND^joULTRY (j^XCHANGE, 
JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 
Published Weekly at 39 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia. 
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ADVERTISEMENTS 
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Advertisements to be sure of insertion must reach this office by 
the Monday morning mail, otherwise they are liable to be left over one 
week. 
We desire to furnish in the Journal a publication so neces- 
sary and interesting, that every fancier, young orold, whosees 
a copy, will not only feel anxious to secure it for himself and 
family, but will have a personal pride in its successful career ; 
and will, therefore, take pleasure in calling the attention of 
all his friends and acquaintances to its merits, thus holding 
up our hands in its improvement; and reaping, with others, 
the general benefit. Fanciers, this weekly is devoted 
to your interests. Its ultimate success depends mainly on 
your generous support — and a very little individual effort 
will insure it. There are very few who could not easily 
obtain two or three subscribers, who will, sooner or later, 
he glad to each avail themselves of this cheap weekly adver- 
tising medium. 
We shall spare no pains to increase the practical value of 
this representative of the interests to which it is devoted, and 
intend that it shall lead the vanin the education of the taste 
of fanciers, both young and old. 
“CHINA FOWL.” 
Mr. Geo. P. Burnham has authorized us to offer fifty 
copies of his new book, the “China Fowl,” price $2.00, to 
the first fifty new subscribers to the Fanciers' Journal. 
That is, any person sending us the name of a new subscri- 
ber and $2.50 will receive a copy of the above work, one 
edition only of which will be printed. 
A FEW NOTES ON A RECENT ISSUE. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal. 
I submit a few random notes in relation to some matters 
suggested by correspondents in No. 34 of your paper. 
1st. Why don’t George J. Morse set the eggs he finds 
with his “ hen that has not been with a cock for several 
weeks?” This course will answer his query much better 
than can any theory of Mr. Pyle, Mr. Bieknell, or anybody 
else. If these eggs hatch chickens, he can thu9 satisfy him- 
self about their “ impregnation,” 1 should say, decidedly. 
2d. The final letter of Mr. George C. Athole, in reference 
to Mr. Burnham and his Hen Fever book, is very good. 
Burnham’s letter to Athole, in a former number, was rather 
“to the point,” I remember, and the spirit evinced by Mr. 
Athole in his last note is very commendable. Those who 
know Mr. Burnham personally will appreciate Mr. Athole’s 
“change of base,” in his pleasantly expressed later opinion 
of Mr. Burnham. 
3d. I inclose you two dollars and a half for a year’s sub- 
scription to Fanciers’ Journal, and I want a copy of Mr. 
Burnham’s new book, which you advertise as a premium for 
new subscribers, viz., The China Fowl. I judge the fifty 
copies you thus offer, of a fresh volume from this gentle- 
man’s pen, upon these terms, will be very shortly taken off 
your hands. 
4th. I fully agree with your brief editorial note preceding 
the Halstead vs. Lockwood article; and I am sure your 
readers will be equally pleased to learn that the “contro- 
versies ” we have been gorged with latterly in yonr paper 
and other poultry journals is now completed. “ Something 
too much of this,” as Hamlet says, we have already had. 
5th. Your New York correspondent, “Peter Simple,” is 
justly “down upon” the vulture hock , that has so nearly 
ruined some otherwise good strains of the Asiatic varieties 
in late years. The Dark Brahmas and Partridge Cochins 
that have been thus bred, as P. S. remarks, from certain late 
British imported fowls, are fearfully afflicted with this en- 
cumberance, and American fanciers who have had these 
crossed birds imposed upon them are now anxiously inquir- 
ing, “What shall we do with this stock?” I wish I could 
answer this question. But I give it up. 
Yours, &c., Jersey Blue. 
Newark, N. J., August 20tli. 
CoF^ESpOflDEfJCE. 
Lexington, Va., August 1st, 1874. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal; 
I have frequently had eggs laid by my hens equal to the 
one spoken of in one of your late issues, an extra large 
egg with only the white surrounding an egg of average size, 
with r perfect shell and contents. I had a Bantam a few 
years since that went to her nest daily, left it cackling, but 
she never laid an egg. One day I found her dead in the 
nest. On opening her, 1 found an egg double the ordinary 
size, broken or crushed; on examining it I found it to be 
one layer after another of shells, with a thin dried substance 
between each layer. Yours truly, 
W. W. Lewis. 
Stamford, Conn., August. 22d, 1874. 
Friend Wade : 
I send you a “ clipping ” from a paper, also a “ clipping ” 
from my check-book. Have been successful in sending out 
several hundred dollars’ worth of fowls the past few weeks, 
but, like the New England razor-strap man, “ have a few 
more left!" Insert the advertisement inclosed in No. 35. 
Truly yours, J. T. Ferris. 
New York, August 22d, 1874. 
Mr. J. M. Wade. 
Sir; Nos. 17 and 18 of the Fanciers' Gazette, now due, 
have not been received by me as yet. Please send them. I 
am very glad to see you write a good word for the rabbit 
