FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
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fanciers in the last number of the Journal. That the fancy 
is on the increase I know, having been in it for the last five 
years, though out of it at present. The demand for fancy 
rabbits has been greater than the supply for the past year. 
Importations are quite numerous, and I hope the time is not 
far distant when we will have a club, and hold exhibitions 
of our own. Truly yours, 
Aethoe Boyce, Jr. 
Cambridgeport, Mass., August 1st, 1874. 
J. M. Wade, Esq. 
Dear Sir : As Philadelphia is to be the city where the 
Centennial Exhibition is to be held in 1 876, I think it would 
not come amiss for the American Poultry Association to 
hold its first show there at the same time. Let the breeders 
of poultry throughout the whole country send their fowls 
to the exhibition, and then compare their fowls, the East 
with the West, the North with the South. As exhibitions 
are now held, one must take his fowls to every state, county, 
and town fair, in order to show so many first premiums, 
silver cups, &c. But where we can all meet, and have but 
one first, then we shall be nearer to who has the best, and 
what a standard bird should be. 
Let the exhibition be open, not alone to the breeders of 
this country, but also those from abroad, and then we shall 
be able to see whether our stock is advancing, holding its 
own, or deteriorating. 
Let the Association offer liberal premiums in order to in- 
duce breeders at a distance to send their stock, and thus 
have an exhibition worthy of the time and place. 
If no hall can be found large enough in your city to hold 
it in (and I doubt if one can), let it be held in a temporary 
building erected for the purpose, or in some large pavilion. 
I think it would be a success, both financially and to poultry 
breeders throughout the country. 
If the American Poultry Association will not take hold 
of the project, let the Eastern Pennsylvania Poultry Asso- 
ciation take the matter in hand, and carry it to a successful 
end. I am not a member of the A. P. A., otherwise I should 
propose the matter to them instead of you. 
Some breeders might object, because it would take their 
fowls in the breeding season, but as the season will be about 
over at that time, it will not make a great difference, com- 
pared with the benefit they might derive from having them 
there. 
Others may say that it is too early to talk about it. I hardly 
think it too early to begin, and get some of the views of 
older breeders than myself, in order that We may get their 
opinions. 
Trusting you will pardon me for expressing myself so 
fully, I remain, 
Yours truly, H. K. 0. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal. 
Will some of your correspondents, who have had expe- 
rience in shipping rabbits on long journeys, give through 
the Journal their method of boxing and providing with food, 
&c. ; what sized box should be used for a pair of rabbits? 
Yours, &c., Angora. 
Peterboro, N. H. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal. 
I do not (like Mr. Bicknell) find the white varieties of 
fowls as hardy when young as the dark varieties; the White 
Cochins are not so easy to raise as the other varieties of 
Cochins; the Light Brahmas are not as easy to raise as the 
Dark Brahmas; so also with the White Leghorns, which 
are not as easy to raise as Dark Brahmas, Partridge Cochins, 
or Black Cochins. 
I have this season hatched upwards of one thousand 
chickens of all the leading varieties, and I find none more 
hardy than Partridge Cochins and Dark Brahmas ; they 
will thrive where White Cochins, Light Brahmas, and 
White Leghorns would die. I find the Buff Cochins, Black 
Cochins, and Plymouth Bocks nearly as hardy as the Par- 
tridge Cochins or Dark Brahmas. 
I do not find the Aylesbury Duck as easy to raise as the 
Eaven, nor do I find them as good layers. 
C. E. L. Hatwaed. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal. 
A number of poultry fanciers interested in a poultry 
society met at William Gilberthorp’s store, in York, Pa., on 
Tuesday Evening, August 25th, 1874, and effected an organi- 
zation under the name and title of “ The Southern Pennsyl- 
vania Poultry Association.” It is favored by its geographi- 
cal position, from the fact that it is at present the only 
society to represent the south and southwest of the great 
State of Pennsylvania. 
The following are the officers elected, viz. : 
President — William Gilberthorp, York, Pa. 
Vice-Presidents — William A. Myers, New Oxford ; Samuel 
Owen, York, Pa.; F. A. Eichelberger, York, Pa.; Prof. 
S. B. Meigs, York, Pa. 
Corresponding Secretary — -Chas. H. Fry, Spring Garden, 
York, Pa. 
Recording Secretary — M. J. Seitz, York, Pa. 
Treasure ? — Thomas Myers, York, Pa. 
Executive Committee — Geo. W. McElroy, Esq. , York, Pa. ; 
L. W. Finley, Lower Chanceford ; Henry Neater, York, 
Pa.; Dr. J. D. Meigs, York, Pa.; John Nogan, York 
County ; Capt. William Fry, Spring Garden, York, Pa. ; 
Harry Keiser, York County. 
It is the intention to hold an exhibition some time next 
winter, as the interest manifested in the poultry cause is suf- 
ficient to insure a splendid show. 
C. H. Fry. 
Pine Grove Nursery, August 24, 1874. 
Jos. M. Wade. 
Dear Sir: Wishing to see the Fanciers' Journal in the 
hands of every fancier, young or old, we make you the fol- 
lowing offer, if it will aid you in obtaining subscribers : We 
will send 500 transplanted Arbor Vitae Hedge Plants to the 
party who will first send you 10 new names with $25. This 
offer begins September 1, 1874, and runs one year from that 
date. Truly yours, 
Allen’s Corner, Me. Wm. Morton & Son. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal. 
Dear Sir : The Peninsular Agricultural Association will 
hold their First Annual Fall Exhibition at Middletown, 
New Castle County, Delaware, on Wednesday, Thursday, 
and Friday, September 23, 24, and 25, 1874. 
Middletown, Del. J. Thos. Budd, Secretary. 
