. The fanciers' journal and poultry exchange . idedly opposedto sawdust being put in the coops, especially of the pigeons,which I think injures them very much ; and I have nodoubt but many of them die from eating sawdust with theirfood, and drinking from cups half filled with sawdust andwater. QUBLPH POULTRY SHOW {CATSTADA). We had a poultry show at the above place the past winter,and I must say that all the stock was properly cared for, andwas returned from the show in as good condition as whenreceived. We used oat chaff in the coops, which we foundmuch better than sawdust or other material c
. The fanciers' journal and poultry exchange . idedly opposedto sawdust being put in the coops, especially of the pigeons,which I think injures them very much ; and I have nodoubt but many of them die from eating sawdust with theirfood, and drinking from cups half filled with sawdust andwater. QUBLPH POULTRY SHOW {CATSTADA). We had a poultry show at the above place the past winter,and I must say that all the stock was properly cared for, andwas returned from the show in as good condition as whenreceived. We used oat chaff in the coops, which we foundmuch better than sawdust or other material commonly used. SHOW COOPS. I also wish to call the attention of the committees, espe-cially at Bulfalo and Boston, to the fact that coops for Pou-ters and Fantails ought to be much larger than for Toybirds ; in fact, to show a first-class pair of Pouters the coopought to be as large as for fowls. Hoping you will excuse me for taking up so much roomin your valuable journal, I remain, Kespeotfully yours, Albert Goeble. Mitchell, Ontario, PodLTF^Y DEf^F^JjVIEfJT. CLEAN-LEGGED BUFF COCHINS. A correspondent says, in reply to our Winnsboro, S. , that the clean-limbed Cochins of all colors. Buffincluded, have been bred very largely in former (in 1867) describes Mr. Sturgeons famous im-portation of Buff Cochins of 1843, which were very earlybirds in modern Cochin history. Mr. Sturgeon says;All our birds came from Shanghai, China, and at firstwere all heavily feathered upon the legs. Subsequently,Mr. Kobert Fortune says (page 39) : The Shanghais occurboth with feathered and unfeathered legs, but more fre-quently unfeathered. I am safe in adding, he continues, that the Chinese do not attach so much importance as we(Englishmen) do to purity of color, &c., and they are notparticularly careful in the management of their Queens Cochin Chinas (1843 to 18-50), bred with almostuniformly clean limbs, as our correspondent Mr. G-. lately stated
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