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Buffalo, june 1. 1870. *
@Mark Itcaia Esq: Sir-At q re
cent meeting of the Executive, Com
mittee of the Western New York
Poultry Society, you were elected an
honorary men. Der of the society. iran;
-. E. G. DEANE,I =.
Recording Secretary
cit never rains but it pours.11 Z Neiz
ther do distinctions begin to fall upon
a man in a sprinkle but very shortly
they increase to food. Within the
space of one short month, l have been
raised to the dignity aof honorary
membership in agricultural, horticul!-
tural and vinecultural societies in the
states of Iowa, Indiana, California,
Massachusetts, Maryland and Penn
sylvania, and now, as a eliminating
grandeur, Ihave become an. honorary
member of the Western New Y ork
Poultry Society, and my raEenous
ambition is satisfied. = aiii il .5lTnf
Seriously, from early youth ] have
taken an especial interest in the sub
ject of poultry raising, and so this
membership touches a ready sympa-
thy in my breast. Even as a school
boy poultry-raising was, a study with
me, and may say, without egotism;
that as early as the age of,d7 i was
acquainted with all the bestand speed
lest methods of raising chickens, from
raising them off q roost by burning
lucifer matches under their noses,
down to lifting them off fence on a
frosty night by insinuating the end Of
warm board under their heels. By
the time was 20 years old 4 really
suppose 1 had raised more poultry
than any one individual in all the sec
ton round about there. The very
chickens came to know mystalentbby
and by. The youth i,of'iiboth sexes
ceased to paw the earth for worms,
and old roosters that came to crow
remained to pray. when F. passed
by. g gagA aH .r1zIt H3Ds sHa as.
I have had so much experience in
che raising of fowls that cannot but
think that few hints from me might
be useful to the society. = The two
methods l have already touched upon
are very simple, and are only used in
the raising of the commonest class of
fowls; one is for summer, the other
for winter. In the one case you start
out with a friend along about IL
o'clock on summers night, (not later
because in some States-especially in
California and Oregon-ehickens al
ways rouse up just at midnight and
crow from ten to thirty minutes, acl
cording to the ease or difficulty they
experience in getting the public walked
up,) and your friend carries with him
a sack. Arriving at the henroost,
(your neighbors, not your own,) you
light match and hold it under first
one and then another pullet's nose
until they are willing to go into the
bag without making any trouble about
it. You then return home,' either
taking the bag with you or leaVicg it
behind, according as circumstances
shall dictate. N. B.-I have seen the
time when it was eligible and appro-
pirate to leave the sack behind and
walk off with considerable velocity,
without ever leaving any word where
to send it. SIRE tifs .3l95s IL
In the case of the other method
mentioned for raising poultry, your
friend takes along a covered vessel
with charcoal fire in it, and you car
ry long slender plank. This is a
frosty night, understand. Arrived at
the tree, or fence, or other henroost,
(your own, if you are an idiot,) you
warm the end of your plank in your
friends fire vessel, and then raise it
aloft, and ease it up gently against a
slumbering ehichen's foot. If the SUBJ
ject of your attention is a true bird,
he will infallibly return thanks with
a sleepy cluck or two, and then step
out and take up quarters on the plank
thus becoming so conspicuously ac-
cessory before the fact to his own
murder as to make it a grave question
in our minds, as it once was in the
mind of Blackstone, whether it is not
really and deliberately committing
suicide in the second degree. But
you enter into contemplation Of
these legal reflnements subsequently,
not then. it a. HaE .rat,tist,t-i 10 III
When you wish to raise a large,
donkey-voiced Shanghai rooster, you
do it with lasso, just as you would
bull. 1t is because he must be choked
and choked effectually, too. 1t is the
only good. certain way, for wheneter
he mentions q matter which he is cor
daily interested in, the chances are
nineteen in a hundred that he secures
somebody else's Immediate attention
too, whether it be day or night 1' IN
The Black Spanish is an. exceeding
ly fine bird, aud a costly one, Thirty,
five dollars is the usual figure, and
fifty a not uncommon price for spec
linen. Even its eggs are worth from
a dollar to a dollar and a half apiece,
and yet are so unwholesome that the
city physician seldom or never orders
them for the work house. STILL: Il
have once or twice procured as high
as dozen at time for nothing, i'll the
dark of the moon, The way to raise
the nlack Spanish fowl is to go late in