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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
^ ANCIERS’ OURNAL AND^r) OULTRY (jjxCHANGE, 
JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 
A. N. Raub, Associate Editor. 
Published Semi-Monthly at 39 N. Ninth St., Philadelphia. 
SUBSCRIPTION. 
Single Copies, by mail $0 10 
Per Annum, 2 50 
Per Annum to Canada, 2 70 
Per Annum to England, 3 54 
Specimen Copies, Free. 
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. 
OUR TWO SOCIETIES. 
Fanciers will not lcse sight of the fact that there are now 
two societies in this city, both of which will hold exhibitions 
during the month of December coming. 
The Fanciers’ Pigeon and Poultry Association is not a split 
of the old society but is formed of entirely new material, 
and is in perfect harmony with the old one. It is composed 
almost entirely of pigeon fanciers, who go about their business 
in a very practical manner. They hold monthly meetings, 
at every one of which each member pays one dollar ; by this 
means they have accumulated quite a fund, so that they are 
fully justified in stating that all their premiums and other 
expenses will be promptly met at the close of the show. 
The old Pennsylvania State Society will hold its regular 
annual exhibition on December 28th, closing January 2d. 
Through bad management this Society has lost prestige 
during the past two or three years, but this bad management 
has brought into office men who are determined to bring the 
Society back to its original high standing. They have much 
work before them, as it is now understood that they will 
have the management of the poultry department in the Cen- 
tennial. They have considerable funds in hand to pay the 
premiums of last year as well as those of the coming show. 
This Society has also suffered by having large special pre- 
miums offered which were never paid, thereby bringing the 
Society into bad repute when they were not to blame. The 
veteran William Wister is still at the head of this Society. 
William S. Kemp, of Dayton, Ohio, writes us as follows: 
“ Our Southern Ohio Fair, held here in September and Oc- 
tober, was a grand success in every department but the 
poultry department, in which there was a poor exhibition 
because small inducements were offered. The Association 
offered $5000 for one horse race, and only $175 in the whole 
department of poultry, pigeons, and rabbits. We are going 
to try to have the County do better next year.” 
SALE OF FINE FOWLS. 
J. Boardman Smith has sold to W. A. Braenerd, of New 
Orleans, his celebrated White Leghorn cock “Seafoam.” 
Also to M. Eyre, of Napa, Cal., one of his finest cockerels, 
“ Pet, Jr.,” and six of his breeding hens. “ Pet, Jr.” is out 
of Smith’s famous cock “Pet” (113), and was awarded 2d 
premium at the late Exhibition of the Connecticut Stock 
Breeders’ Association. This will give Mr. Eyre, one of the 
very best breeding pens of White Leghorns in the Udited 
States. 
IOWA STATE POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 
By an oversight, we omitted to place the exhibition of 
this Association, on our list when sent; we are sorry for 
this, for the Association is worthy of all the prominence we 
can give it. It is ably managed by some of the best fan- 
ciers in the West. 
Our list of shows is very complete, and as we place none on 
the list but what are furnished by the secretaries, they can 
be fully relied upon as being correct. The show season is 
now upon us, and it will be well for fanciers to keep a 
sharp lookout, and exhibit wherever possible, and not re- 
gret as is usually the case when too late. 
A GOOD MOVE. 
The following resolution was unanimously adopted at 
the last meeting of the Executive Committee of the Iowa 
State Poultry Association. 
Resolved , That to enable successful competitors to receive 
all premiums due them, and thereby avoiding any cause for 
dissatisfaction, and to enable the Iowa State Poultry Associ- 
ation to stand with a clean record and above reproach, we 
earnestly request that all special premiums offered by the 
friends and members of the Association be sent to the Secre- 
tary, at Dubuque, in time to be delivered at the close of the 
Exhibition. Articles which from their nature cannot be de- 
livered, such as papers and magazines, etc., a receipted bill 
for the time it is to be sent should be forwarded. 
H. C. Darrah, 
Chairman Executive Committee. 
THE POULTRY REVIEW. 
This English weekly is a very good paper, and we are glad 
to have it on our exchange list ; its editor is a man of sound 
judgment. Our reason for believing this to be the case is 
that in the last number that has reached us we find three 
articles copied from our September number, and he has pre- 
viously copied other articles from our paper. Yes, we ad- 
mire his judgment, but wonder why it is that he always 
forgets to put on the credit. We have copied several articles 
from the Review and gave proper credit in every instance, 
and we will be obliged to the editor of that paper if he will 
give us due credit in the future. — National Poultry Journal. 
It seems to us that our friend Carpenter is getting very 
particular about his original matter. Why it is quite com- 
mon for our subscribers to remark that the Review was almost 
a reprint of the Fanciers’ Journal , items and all (usually 
without credit), but we do not get mad about it. Oh, no, 
friend Carpenter, if “its editor is a man of sound judg- 
ment ”(?) he will find out his mistake in due time. We notice 
also that our contemporary of the Gazette is after him in a 
mild way, under the heading of “ Articles Hashed-up Cold,” 
to which the editor of the Review tries to answer (as it seems 
to us) in anything but a fair, manly spirit. In the course of 
his argument, alluding to copying the word “ Fancier ” from 
the Gazette , he says: “We wished for a comprehensive title, 
and ‘ The Fancier ’ was suggested, it may have been derived 
from the same source as our contemporary’s,” evidently al- 
luding to the Fanciers' Journal. For the benefit of the editor 
of the Review it might be well to repeat that we are indebted 
to Lewis Wright for the name of the Fanciers' Journal , 
which was given to us at a time when he did not think of 
starting a paper, therefore the insinuation in the Review is 
not true. The editor of the Review closes with the following 
remark : “ Thus it is that we make these remarks, and we do 
