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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTUEE. 



fast becoming one of the popular favorites. Its name, like 

 many other breeds of poultry, is a misnomer, it being entirely 

 unlike that established by Dr. Bennett of Plymouth. It is un- 

 doubtedly a cross of the Dominique with some of the large 

 breeds. It is a bird of admirable form with bright Domi- 

 nique plumage, and clear yellow legs. Some doubt has existed 

 hitherto as to whether it was sufficiently established to breed 

 true, but the chickens exhibited were as true to the old fowl 

 as young game to their parents, and nothing more need be 

 asked for, as every poultry-fancier well knows. It would 

 be an ornament to any farm-yard, and its good qualities are 

 claimed to be equal to the Dominique fowl, than which few, 



•^' ' ' Edmund Rodman, Chairman. 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Lucius Dunhar. 



Dr. 



March 1. To 27 chickens on hand at $0.50-, . 

 31 hens " 1.25, . 



3 cocks " 1.50, . 



5 hens and 22 chickens, bought, 



1 cock, " 



2 ducks, " 

 14 bushels corn, cracked, 

 16 

 14 " meal, 



1 bushel barley, 

 89^ pounds meat, . 

 300 " wheat screenings, 



2 bags oatmeal, 



6 pounds sulphur, 

 1 cask lime, . 

 oyster shells, . 

 40 dozen eggs set, 

 2 



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Total, . 



$138 78 



