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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
^ ANCIERS'^jj OURNAL AND^ OULTRY (j^XCHANGE, 
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. 
EDITORIA L DEPAR TMENT. 
With this issue, the time for which some of our subscri- 
bers have (and many who have not) prepaid, expires. It is 
our earnest desire and fond hope to resume the weekly issue 
of the Journal for the year 1875; and we trust that its 
friends who are anxious for its change to, and continuance 
in, that form, will promptly renew and remit. We had 
fully considered the matter, and decided to continue semi- 
monthly (16 pages), with an illustrated cover; but, during 
the past week, we have received a great many very pressing 
letters from the Journal’s best friends, with promises of a 
hearty co-operation, if we will hut resume the weekly issue. 
Should our subscribers renew promptly, and do all in their 
power to induce others to subscribe, which will prove a 
lively interest in the Journal , we shall be induced to make 
the desired change. Our ideas of a journal are far in ad- 
vance of anything we have yet produced ; and, with a proper 
support, we know we could gladden the hearts of every true 
fancier once a week. 
During the present month we will send out bills to the 
amount of at least one thousand dollars, most of which have 
been long overdue, to which we hope to have a prompt 
response. Those not in a position to pay at present, will 
favor us by at least writing, and set a time when we may 
expect a remittance. 
“THE A. P. A. AND THE STANDARD.” 
“We commend to our readers’ attention, the communi- 
cation in another column from A. D. Warren, Esq., on 
this topic. It is of the right tone throughout. The desire 
of the writer to have amity established, will be echoed by 
every one who has the public poultry interest at heart. 
“The Association is more powerful to-day than if it had 
not been denounced. Its enemies will find it strong, ener- 
getic, and harmonious, when its members turn out in full 
force at the next meeting. It will proceed with its work of 
“ perpetually improving ” its Standard , just as it would have 
done if it had not been maligned. Criticisms will meet 
with favor just in proportion as they have root in reason, 
and not in spite or personal motives. Alterations that 
should be made, will be made, even though the most scur- 
rilous enemy of the Standard proposes them. 
“ The introduction of personal motives, venom and bill- 
ingsgate, to attacks upon the Association, was entirely inex- 
cusable. Everything that was done at Buffalo, last winter, 
was just and generous, and, as we shall maintain while we 
live, the Standard , as promulgated by the Convention, was 
essentially an excellent work. There can be but very little 
done to improve it, though that little sadly needs doing. If 
a person had been empowered to edit the work, clothed with 
power to alter phraseology, while preserving the sense, and 
if a few unlucky typographical errors had been removed 
from the proofs, the Standard would have been as near per- 
fect as any that will be promulgated next winter, or for 
some years to come. Standards grow, they are not “made.” 
By this we mean that they are the product of years of 
thought and experiment. The Standard, wrought into form 
at Buffalo, is the growth of years, and is a work to be proud 
of, notwithstanding its defects. We appeal to those who 
worked night and day on the sub-committees for a response 
to the question whether the criticisms that have appeared 
during the past summer have been, in the main, just or un- 
justs and instigated by a captious spirit or a desire for im- 
provement.” 
We clip the above editorial from the December number 
of the Poultry World, calling attention to a pacific article, 
by A. D. Warren, on the A. P. A. Had the editor con- 
cluded his remarks with the first paragraph, we could have 
fully indorsed his statement ; but we propose to criticize his 
succeeding statements which appear to us quite contradict- 
ory. They run as follows : “ The Association is more pow- 
erful to-day than if it had not been denounced.” We deny 
that the Association has been denounced, but some of its 
acts have been severely criticized, and justly so; and we con- 
sider such critics as true friends to the Association, because 
they desire to see it properly perfected. Hence, we conclude, 
it will not “ proceed with its work of ‘ perpetually improv- 
ing ’ its standard, just as it would have done if it had not 
been maligned.” Had not “ the critics ” called attention to 
the defects of the standard, we doubt whether there would 
have been an improved edition for some years to come ; 
hence we do not regret the use of our columns for the pur- 
pose that has produced this result. “ Everything that was 
done at Buffalo last winter was just and generous.” If this 
be so, then its subsequent proceedings (generally considered 
tardy justice to an expelled member) must have been quite 
the opposite. “ There can be but very little done to improve 
it, though that little sadly needs doing.” In which we all 
agree. “If a person had been empowered to edit the work,” 
etc. “ If ” “If a few unlucky typographical errors.” If 
the standard had been given to a publisher who had loved 
fowls more and money less. “ We appeal to those who 
worked night and day,” etc., etc. As one of the above we 
will be glad of the opportunity to improve upon that work. 
If the editor of the World will try to harmonize instead of 
trying to disintegrate the fancy, his work will be more ap- 
preciated by the fanciers at large. “ United we stand, 
divided we fall.” 
THE JOURNAL. 
We desire to furnish in the Journal a publication so neces- 
sary and interesting, that every fancier, young or old, who sees 
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 paper 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 ob- 
tain two or three subscribers, who will, sooner or later, be 
glad to each avail themselves of this cheap advertising 
medium. 
