Sir,—Messrs G. J. Neill, Robert Elston, and James Tasker, have come oat m full war paint—feathers and all—no poultry pun intended—to scalp an anonymus scribbler signing " Delta." I must say I admire their pluck,— not for attacking that " can tankerous beggar,"—but for signing their own names to such tommy rot as appears above them. From the half-column you have printed for them, I can only find three points requiring notice, although I am sure we are all much obliged to Marshal Neill for Mb interesting little diary of his own doings at the hen convention. The points are (1), that had I known that the committee—recognising the impropriety of permitting self-appointed stewards or marshals or other assistants to trot round With the judge—had interviewed Mr G. J*| Keill and " explained their difficulty to him " with a view to secure his valuable advice and assistance, I should not have written my last letter; (2) I said that some of the largest local exhibitors were m the hall while the judge was making his awards, and I know for a fact that this is strictly correct. At least three were there. I notice Marshal Neill feels sure that my letter "was a direct attack on him." But it is surely a wide stretch of the SJ imagination to call the exhibitor of a solitary cat or even a pure bred canary " one of the largest exhibitors." Of course the apparent size of the exhibitor would depend a good deal on the standpoint of the observer. But this is by the way, the last point m the letters under notice calling for remark is that no one has shown whether the usual arrangements to exclude exhibitors while judging was going on were either made or carried out. On the contrary, Mr Neill | aays the committee had to look tor a class j steward (or marshal as he prefers to be J called) until the judge was ready to begin. 1 That is just what I complained of—not on my own account as one exhibitor, but m the interests of all exhibitors at our show. Had I been the cantankerous casa Mr G. J. 