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comes nearest the truth. I am also satisfied that even 

 this will be looked upon as an exaggeration, by those who 

 were not present and who never felt the fever; because 

 they will not be able to conceive how dreadfully that dis- 

 ease must rage through a community, to induce them 

 to come together to the number of three hundred and 

 thirty-eight exhibitors, with 6,000 head of cocks and 

 hens, ducks and drakes, gobblers, ganders, geese, and 

 Guinea fowls, in all sorts of coops and cages; some of 

 which could not have cost less than fifty dollars a piece, 

 and were probably got up especially for this occasion. 



The following memorandum of the coops and kinds 

 exhibited by Messrs. Pierce & Osborn, of Danvers, Mas- 

 sachusetts, will give your readers a pretty fair idea of the 

 various sorts kept by those who make a business of 

 chicken breeding, together with the regular "trade 

 prices." To commence with the tallest kind : — 



Coop No. 1, contains Shanghaes. Price, per pair, $4, 

 of three varieties. Parsons, Perley & Forbes' importa- 

 tion. 



No. 2, Black Spanish, $5 per pair. 



" 3, Guilderland, 3 



" 4, Rumpless, 3 



" 5, Dominique, 3 



" 6, Black Poland, 3 



" 7, White, do. 3 



" 8, Golden, do. 3 



" 9, Golden Hamburg, 5 



" 10, Spangled, 5 



" 11, Singapore, 3 



" 12, Silver pheasant, top-knot fowls, 5 



" 13, Bolton greys, 3 



" 14, Brown Dorkings, 4 



" 15, White, " 4 



" 16, Yankee game, 5 



" 17, Java, " 5 to 10 



" 18, Sicilian fowls, 3 



" 19, Jersey Blues 3 



