. Fanciers' journal and land & water . ts ? H. P. S. asks :— Will you, or some of your subscribers tell mewhy many of my pigeons eggs have soft ends ? I constantly keepgravel, pounded plaster, burned bone, and pulverized egg shellsin my loft, and still I am often troubled with soft-end P. Sinclair. MIDDLESEX PODLTRT ASSOCIATION. At a meeting of this association held March 29tli, it was votedto hold the next exhibition in Huntington Hall, Lowell, Dec. 18th,19th, 20th, 21st and 22d, 1877. D. Frank Ellis, Secy, North Cambridge, Mass. A writer in the Loudon Times urges the strengthenin
. Fanciers' journal and land & water . ts ? H. P. S. asks :— Will you, or some of your subscribers tell mewhy many of my pigeons eggs have soft ends ? I constantly keepgravel, pounded plaster, burned bone, and pulverized egg shellsin my loft, and still I am often troubled with soft-end P. Sinclair. MIDDLESEX PODLTRT ASSOCIATION. At a meeting of this association held March 29tli, it was votedto hold the next exhibition in Huntington Hall, Lowell, Dec. 18th,19th, 20th, 21st and 22d, 1877. D. Frank Ellis, Secy, North Cambridge, Mass. A writer in the Loudon Times urges the strengthening of mete-orology by the study of ornithology. Long experience has taughthim that all great atmospheric changes are to be preceded by un-wonted appearances among birds. When the late terrible galeswere approaching lie saw large flocks of starlings in a localitywhere they had never appeared before, the next day wood pigeons,and on the next large flocks of wild geese took their flight south-ward. THE FANCIERS JOURNAL. Vol. IV—No. PodLjt^Y ^^D PiqEoNs. There is no way of helping the poor so heneficial as dissem-inating such knowledge as will enable them to obtain an honestliving. The dispensing of alms (however munificent) has a de-grading effect upon the recipient, and the relief is bnt temporary;whereas the means of sdf help elevates the mind, and theeifects are lasting. •-•-• ■ LINES ON A ROAST DUCK. A dnck has been immortalized by Bryant, A wild one, too;Sweetly he hymned the creature lithe and buoyant, Cleaving the whoso says the duck through ether flying Seen by the bardEquals the canvas-back before me lying. Tells a canard. Done to a turn, the flesh a dark carnation, The gravy red,Four slices from the breast, on such a ration Gods might have , go to, to think ihat thy rare ghost dnck Traced gainst the oer at all compare with this rare roast duck. Is all my eye. —Field. PARTRIDGE COCHINS. There is a complaint among the purchaser
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