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surpassed. Your committee have no hesitation in pronouncing this 

 one of the noblest specimens of the porcine family, and award the 

 Society's first premium to his owner, Col. David Ingham of Farm- 

 ington. The Society has cause to regret that no more interest is 

 taken in the improvement of swine ; and your committee beg to say 

 that no surer test of prosperity of a farmer can be given than in 

 the fat and thriving condition of his porkers, for besides the profit- 

 ableness of the meat and lard, unlike their b'qied cousins, though 

 very similar in some other respects, the quadruped gentry support 

 themselves by their daily work." 



Poultry. The Committee say : — " There was no large gathering 

 of fowls for our inspection. Two lots of hens were brought to the 

 notice of the committee, viz : Bolton Greys, golden and black and 

 Golden Polanders. For table use and the production of feathers, 

 we prefer the Polanders ; but from the laborious disposition of the 

 Bolton's, and their inclination to work for the good of the human 

 race, without tiring or setting. We award the first premium to S. 

 West. The second premium to Z. Greenwood. 



There were two kinds of Turkeys. One was snow white, and 

 the other jet black. Both were very beautiful, and of excellent 

 quality. The male white turkey has adopted the fashion of letting 

 a wisk of hair grow on his frontal parts. Whether the turkey fol- 

 lows the fashion of the young gentlemen of the day or the young 

 gentlemen the fashion of the turkey, is not for your committee to 

 decide. 



Having long lived in a country where there are strong prejudices 

 against color, and having imbibed some of the same towards turkeys, 

 and believing the white ones to be more intelligent, and without 

 doubt intended to govern, your committee do not hesitate to award 

 the Society's first premium to the white turkeys." 



Fruit. 



Premiums were awarded on Baldwin, Spitzenberg, Black Oxford, 

 Somerset, Golden Russet, and other apples. 



Also upon Concord grapes, quite ripe. Specimens of chestnuts, 

 shown by S. Farmer of Temple. 



