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world who are high in authority, have the proud consciousness of 

 being elevated to their present exalted position without any election- 

 eering — logrolling or solicitation on their part. 



Being unexpectedly constituted sole judges of the " beauty and 

 booty-^ of the henroosts of the Empire State, they performed their 

 labors, not as they would, but as they best could. 



Whether their production be sound, or whether it be addled, they 

 respectfully beg leave to lay it on your honor's table — to cease their 

 cackling and " rJear the coop.'^' 



E. HOLMES, 

 T. H. HYATT, 

 S. BARROW. 



EXTRACT FROM WYOMING COUNTY REPORT. 



The undersigned would add, that there was presented a coop of 

 three hens and one cock, of the " Cornwall Hen," a fair specimen 

 of the race. 



It may be asked, what is the " Cornwall Hen?'' I answer from 

 the best authority. The State geologists speak of a rock found at 

 Gardow, Livingston county, as the ''• Gardow shale." Whyl Be- 

 cause ih.e.j find it at Gardow. It may be true that foreign geologists 

 would be utterly at a loss to know from the name, what are the dis- 

 tinguishing features of the strata called Gardow shale. They could 

 only ascertain its character from an examination of the rock. I found 

 these hens at Mr. Cornwall's ; I therefore call them Cornwall hens. 

 They weigh from four to six pounds each — lay eggs weighing four 

 ounces — and hatch two chicks, alive and in health, from one egg; 

 and their quality and character may be learned by the society in the^ 

 same way that men of science learn the peculiar traits of the Gardow 

 shale — ^by coming to see them, which they are invited to do. 



In great haste, 



Respectfully submitted. 



Warsaw, 2d Oct. 1845. F. C. D. McKAY. 



