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" The Berkshire hogs have too thiclc a rind. The Leicestershire hogs 

 are great consumers, and will not fatten Avell unless kept till they are full 

 grown. The Byfieid have neither of these faults, but are too small. By 

 crossing the Byfieid and Leicestershire, we obtain the good qualities of 

 the former, and something of the size of the latter. Then we have a 

 breed that will stay where we put them, and weigh all we expect of them. 

 By taking a little pains, our farmers will save their trouble, and not be 

 troubled with great consumers and small returners." 



F. H. Westover." 



POULTRY— No. OF Entries, 27. 



Judges — P. C, Hale, Milwaukee, Chairman. 



Best lot of Dorkings, not less than three, one cock and two hens ; Robert 

 E. Gillett, Milwaukee. Barry's Fruit Garden. 



Best lot of Polands ; Joseph Carpenter, Waukesha. American Poultry 

 Yard. 



Best lot of Brahma-Pootra fowls ; Leonard Kennedy, Milwaukee. Tho- 

 mas's Fruits. 



Best lot of Turkeys ; F. H. Westover, Milwaukee. American Muck Book- 



Best lot of Muscovy Ducks ; Richard Reynolds, Greenfield. American 

 Poultry Yard. 



Best lot of Poultry owned by exhibitor ; Robert E. Gillett, Milwaukee. $3. 



Best lot of Shanghais ; Franklin Ripley, Jr., Milwaukee. Johnston's 

 Practical Agriculture. 



The Committee, in their report, remark that "they observed with 

 regret the little interest felt by the majority of farmers in this State, in 

 rearing anything but the most common fowls. While there has been a 

 manifest improvement of the animals of the State, during the last five 

 years, the improvement of the fowl kind has been regarded as too small a 

 business to secure the attention of any but women and children. The 

 same breed of chickens have been allowed to run together, unchanged and 

 uncrossed, year after year, until forty of the common hens produce a less 

 number of eggs and chickens in a year than six well bred hens should. 



*' It costs no more to keep a good fowl than a poor one. A good hen will 

 lay between one hundred and fifty and two hundred and fifty eggs a year^ 



