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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
^ANCIERS'JjoURNAL 
AND^P OULTRY (j^XCHANGE, 
JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 
A. N. Raub, Associate Editor. 
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his views in liis own way, and will take care of himself, no 
doubt, seasonably. 
So far as we are individually concerned we agree with 
Lewis Wright, that “ a few hundred dollars may be easily 
thrown away by fanciers,” in this folly, “ when they will 
find pedigrees for poultry are no good.” It simply amounts 
to nothing. The “record ” is of no earthly value. Fowls 
breed too rapidly to permit keeping up any accurate account 
of their innumerable hatchings ; but, according to our think- 
ing, this is not the worst feature of the pedigree business. 
It is a screen back of which the dishonest fancier can oper- 
ate, and there is no method to detect his rascality, whereas 
the honest fancier, who has established a strain and a repu- 
tation for honesty, needs no pedigree book to help him. 
Poultry specimens for the show-rooms, or for sales, must 
stand or fall upon their merits. “ Booking ” them, or their 
fathers and grandfathers, is no good, surely — to say nothing 
of the cost of this flummery, and the labor it entails to 
approach any accuracy with it, even supposing it were either 
desirable or useful, which it is not. 
This is our opinion briefly on this topic, and we are not 
reminded of any grapes, sweet or sour, in connection with 
this matter. We merely think that this poultry pedigree 
business is needless and unnecessarily expensive, as some 
persons would have it carried out. Better save the quarters 
thus invested for more useful purposes, we think; and this 
is our advice to fanciers and breeders. 
We started the Journal with great hopes that the fanciers 
of the United States were fully prepared to sustain a weekly 
with cheap advertising rates, and we have no doubt but our 
hopes would have been realized had it not been for the 
unprecedented dull times. We have published the Journal 
so far at a heavy loss, and we do not feel justified in con- 
tinuing it as a weekly with the present prospects ahead. 
Some of its friends advocate a semi-monthly, while others 
think the popular monthly form the best. We may con- 
tinue as a weekly; but should we decide to change, it will 
appear promptly on the 15th day of each month, thus divid- 
ing the time with the two leading monthlies. Whichever 
way we decide our subscribers can rest assured that they 
will receive full value for the amount paid in subscription. 
The weekly publication will be resumed whenever the wants 
of the Fancy require it. 
Central News Company, Philadelphia, will supply 
News Dealers throughout the United States with the Fan- 
ciers' 1 Journal , at the lowest wholesale rates ; after this date 
it can be had at any of the news stands throughout the 
country. Single copy, 10 cents. 
“ Pedigrees ” for Poultry.— A contemporary who has 
induced some of his ambitious patrons to “take stock ” in 
what he dignifies with the title of an “American Poultry 
Pedigree Book,” makes a tart allusion to us (among other 
“ certain editors ”), because we have evinced no faith in this 
nonsehse. The same monthly recently had a fling also at 
our lively New York correspondent, “ Peter Simple,” who 
has hit off this crotchet of the fancy so effectively, of late, 
in the columns of the Fanciers’ Journal. Peter has given 
We have just received, by mail, an advance copy of No. 
6 “ Cassell’s Book of Pigeons.” It contains two colored 
plates, one of which represents young and old Blue and Sil- 
ver Dragoons — “ the London fancy.” The second plate 
contains Blue and Black Beards, with others, finely executed 
in the background. The letter-press is a conclusion of the 
description of the Carrier, with a full description of all the 
diseases to which this breed is liable, with the best method 
of treatment. 
The first chapter, describing the Pouter, is commenced in 
this number. 
A NEW PREMIUM. 
By reference to another page, it will be seen that the 
author of the “ China Fowl , Shanghai , Cochin , and Brahma ,” 
Geo. P. Burnham, Esq., offers as a premium for the first 
fifty new subscribers to the Fanciers’ Journal , after this 
date, a copy each of his new book, under the above title — to 
be issued this month. See advertisement and notice of 
“special premium,” in this number. 
CoF^ESfOfJDE^ICE. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal. 
Dear Sir : Wishing to make your Journal of use to your 
subscribers in every possible way, I will undertake to an- 
swer Angora’s question. A box twenty-eight inches long, 
and fourteen inces wide and deep, is plenty large enough to 
ship one pair of rabbits to any part of the United States. 
There should be a partition of four inches wide, to hold food. 
If you do not wish to put both rabbits together, then put a 
partition through the centre of the box. You should then 
make a small trough in one corner of each apartment for 
oats. For food, put in the box carrots, cabbage-leaves, and 
dried clover. 
