POULTRY. 



We the undersigned, Committee on Poultry, respectfully report that 

 the show of the poultry, this year, has been very laige, and as your 

 Committee have been informed, much greater than at the last Annual 

 State Fair. In some of the varieties the competition was not very great, 

 while in others, so little difference was perceptible that it rendered it 

 difficult for your Committee to come to a decision. Many of the fine 

 fowls were from the State of New York, and could not, therefore, un- 

 der the regulations, receive any award of premiums, or come into com- 

 petition with those from our own State. The Shanghai, Cochin China, 

 Dorkius, Brahma Pootra, Black Poland, and Chittagi^ngs were well repre- 

 sented, many of which your Committee feel called upon to mention in 

 the highest tei'ms. Of the foreign poultry, we cannot forbear speaking 

 of several fine varieties exhibited by Mr. Van Duzen, of Phelps, N. Y., 

 by Messrs. Kent, Goodwing, and J. Reynolds, of Biistol N. Y, They 

 would also mention, as worthy of notice, a fine collection of Cochin 

 China fowls, and a coop of Shanghai chickens, exhibited by Henry 

 Bibb, of Canada West. 



Your Committee would further recommend a fine collection of Shang- 

 hais, belonging to Ira Slade of the City of Detroit, for a special premi- 

 um. When your Committee made their examinations, they were num- 

 bered, and they were informed that they were foreign, ami your Com- 

 mittee did not learn differently, until after they had made out their 

 awards. Of Turkeys, we regret to say, that few were on exhibition. 

 Your Committee found a large beautiful white Turkey, not numbered 

 or entered, and owned and raised by a Mr. Beaufait, of Wayne County, 

 Michigan, called on the label, a large Grosse Point Turkey, for which 

 the Committee recommend a discretionary premium. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 

 No. 118. Doct. M. Freeman, Schoolcraft, best lot Cochin China 



fowls, |3 "00 



No. 46. Benjamin Beckham, Parma, best lot Shangai fowls, . . 3 00 



No. 120. M. Freeman, Schoolcraft, best lot Dorking fowls, 3 00 



No. 122. " « " Bantam " 3 00 



No. 116. " " « Cross breed Domin- 



ico an 1 Shanghai, 3 00 



No. 135. Prince Bennett, Ypsilanti, best lot Poland, 3 00 



