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ing the most approved modes of keeping- them, with especial 

 reference to their profit as farm products. The statement of 

 Mr. Howland, given hereafter, is vahiable upon one branch of 

 the subject suggested. Poultry and eggs we must have, and 

 the more generally and economically they are produced the 

 better will it be for the community. 



The present exhibition shows pretty conclusively, that the 

 "hen fever," so called, has nearly abated; and perhaps the 

 abatement indicates the convalescence of the subject — of the 

 prevalence of a more healthy public sentiment. 



W. A. Hawley, Chairman. 



Statement of Wm. A. Hoivland. 



I present you with a lot of fowls, consisting of eight varieties, 

 viz: the Chittagong, White Shanghae, Black Spanish, Bolton 

 Grey, Poland, Dorking, Plymouth Rock, and a mixed breed; 

 all comprising forty fowls. 



I have had, during the present year, twenty-six hens and four 

 cocks. The hens have laid, since the first of January last, 2,657 

 eggs, and reared sixty chickens. I keep the larger part of my 

 hens in a yard, thirty by fifty feet. Math a good shed facing the 



