FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
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premium and get plenty of gratuitous advertising, and then 
do not pay that premium, they will neither like nor support 
this Journal. We will, so far as lays in our power, protect 
the honest fancier, whether he be “ big bug ” or “small fry 
we have chosen a tield of our own and we do not really in- 
terfere with other poultry journals, and our best wishes go 
with them. But we claim the right to disagree with the 
editors of other journals on matters pertaining to the fancy 
at large. 
As to the Journal being “ short-lived,” we will here state 
for the benefit of our friends at a distance, that we are 
abundantly able to run the Journal for some years with- 
out any support ; but the editor is older than he used to be 
and consequently more cautious ; he knows the Journal is 
worthy of a paying support and is happy to say it bids fair 
to get it. It will certainly be published through 1875 as a 
semi-monthly, if not as a weekly; but in no case will any 
one lose one cent by its suspension, should such an unfor- 
seen calamity occur. We hope this will be sufficient and 
that our agents will now go to work in earnest for 1875.— Ed.] 
WHAT THE FANCIERS SAY OF THE 
JOURNAL. 
Springfield, III., Oct. 1st, 1874. 
Jos. M. Wade, Esq. 
Dear Sir : We like the Journal better every week. The 
independence of its course, and yet the freedom with which 
it allows to the most opposite parties the use of its columns, 
makes it worth more than all the other poultry papers com- 
bined. In each of them we have but a single one-sided view 
of what is going on in poultry circles, while in the Fanciers’ 
Journal we see all sides at once, or at short intervals. 
Yours very truly, 
Phil. M. Springer. 
[The above explains the position of the Journal so well 
that we commend it to the careful consideration of all our 
readers. — E d.] 
Friend Wade : 
I very much regret that the Journal is to become a semi- 
monthly, but I hope that in a very short time it will be 
changed to a weekly again. I think that all who have taken 
it from its commencement will feel the loss of its weekly 
visits much, and will do all in their power to secure for it 
the patronage it justly deserves — at least I will do my best. 
Your well wisher, C. N. Brown. 
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 26th, 1875. 
Joreph M. Wade, Esq. 
Dear Sir : I see by the last Journal received, that you 
entertain the idea of making the Journal a semi-monthly or 
monthly publication. I hope you may not have to do so. 
I do not see how any fancier of either poultry or pigeons (I 
belong to the latter) can get along without the weekly, even if 
it should cost twice the sum. And although an entire stranger 
to you, never having seen you, I feel as if I already knew 
you through your writings, and I have taken the liberty to 
address you and suggest the idea of getting out a circular to be 
sent to each of your subscribers, and test the matter whether 
they would not rather pay more to have it a weekly than to 
have it a semi-monthly or monthly. It does seem as if it had 
■ought to be kept up and a liberal support offered for it. 
Please offer to any one sending you two new subscribers 
with $5 — $2.50 each — a pair of Black or Blue Swallows, 
perfect birds, well booted. They are worth at least any- 
body’s time to procure two subscribers. I do hope you may 
succeed, and you can count on me at most any price. 
The offer is good until January 1, 1875. 
Yours truly, Giles H. Spear, 
528 Cass Street. 
[Dealers in this city would charge from $5 to $10 per 
pair for the above birds. — Ed.] 
Berrien Springs, Mich., Oct. 1st, 1874. 
Mr. Joseph M. Wade. 
Dear Sir: No. 39 of Fanciers’ Journal has failed to 
arrive. Please forward the copy if it has been overlooked 
in mailing. 
I wish to keep the volume complete, besides do not like 
the disappointment of losing the news of your interesting 
and spicy Journal. 
Yery respectfully, A. Kedhart. 
Erie, Pa., Sept. 26th, 1874. 
Friend Wade : It is with regret that I read your article 
on the probable change of your weekly to a semi-monthly 
or a monthly, for I have looked on its weekly visits with 
pleasure, and I hope you will still continue to publish it 
weekly. 
Yours, Wm. P. Atkinson. 
Fitchburg, Mass., July 10th, 1874. 
Joseph M. Wade, Esq. 
I should be very sorry to see the “ Journal ” discontinued 
as a weekly. Of its many good features, that was one of the 
most desirable, especially for advertisers. My rabbit ad- 
vertisement brought me a great flood of correspondence. 
Another feature of value is the giving away so many speci- 
men numbers. I have said to customers who saw my 
advertisements in the “Journal,” — “I did not know you 
took the 1 Journal.’ ” “ I did not, but Mr. Wade sent me a 
specimen number that contains your advertisement.” Now 
advertisers ought to bear their share of this heavy expense, 
and I think the friends sound that advised an increase in 
the rates for advertising. Don’t think you ever saw thrifty 
old age accompany cheap advertisements in journalism. 
Keep the subscription rates down to the loviest limit above 
cost, and let the advertisers share their profits with the 
“Journal.” Yours truly, 
E. S. Demmon. 
Fitchburg, October 3d, 1874. 
Mr. Joseph M. Wade. 
Dear Sir: Please send poster and I will try and get a 
few subscribers for your paper. I like your paper very much, 
and think it is the best one published. Should be very sorry 
not to have it succeed as a weekly. 
Wishing your paper success, I remain, yours truly, 
George A. Wilson. 
Marlow, N. H., October 5tli, 1874. 
Friend Wade. 
I am sorry to learn that there is to be a change in the 
Journal. I was in hopes that it would be sustained as a 
weekly. There is not much poultry interest in my neigh- 
borhood. There are but a few that keep fancy fowls. But I 
shall try and do all that I can for the Journal ; hoping ere 
long that we fanciers will receive the Journal as a weekly 
again. I am truly yours, J. H. Morrison. 
Mayville, N. Y., October 5th, 1874. 
I am greatly pleased with the Journal, and its weekly 
visits are looked for eagerly, not only by me, but other mem- 
bers of my family. I hope for it the largest success. 
Yours, etc., ' 
T. D. Hammond. 
Cleveland, Sect. 28th, 1874. 
J. M. Wade. 
Dear Sir : No. 38 of the Journal is received, and I am 
sorry to see you have an idea of merging the weekly into a 
semi-monthly, or worse still a monthly. For my part, I 
would much rather you would increase the subscription price 
to $5 a year rather than reduce it to a monthly and $1. I 
would also add, if it would be any inducement, that 
as an extra premium to the first two that will send you 
each' five subscribers to the Journal with the money (and by 
your sending me their names and address), 1 will send each a 
pair of young Angora Rabbits (not less than two months 
old), bred from stock imported September, 1873, and which 
took premiums at leading English Exhibitions before ship- 
ment. 
Yours truly, C. H. Stone, 
615 Dunham Avenue. 
A subscriber wants to know where the ornamental 
rock work is manufactured that is used in aquariums. 
