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present this kind of stock, as to breed, mode of treatment, and 

 product obtained, in order that committees may be enabled to 

 decide more readily, and perhaps justly, upon the merits of 

 each. 



JNO. H. ROBINSON, 

 SOLOMON FLAGG, ^Committee. 

 JOHN MORSE, 



George P. Adamses Statement. 



September 25th, I offered for premium, for the best method 

 in feeding swine, four hogs, of the Middlesex and Suffolk 

 breed. In addition to that statement, I would say, that I pur- 

 sued the same course of feeding, up to the time they were 

 killed, December 2d, and the result was highly satisfactory. 

 The Hve weight, September 25th, was nine hundred pounds. 

 The dead weight, December 2d, was 1107 1-2 pounds. Age, 

 eight months and two days, or two hundred and forty-two 

 days. 



Medfield, Dec. 4, 1850. 



Poultry. 



The following premiums were awarded : 



Best lot of live turkeys, F. E. Howe, Brookline, . ^3 



" pair Cochin Chinas, A. White, East Randolph, . 3 



" " dorkings, Eben. Wight, Dedham, . . 3 



" lot ducks, (not less than six,) E. C. Thayer, Braintree, 2 



" " geese, (not less than six,) Dr. Morton, Needham, 2 



" " live fowls, (99) Francis Alden, Dedham, . 5 



Second best lot live fowls, (78) H. H. Williams, Roxbury, 3 



Third best lot live fowls, D. G. Hicks, Milton, . 2 



Christopher B. Marshes Statement. 



This large rooster and brown hen were brought from 

 Shanghae, China, May, 1848 ; they are from three to four 

 years old. The rooster weighed last spring, thirteen and a 

 half pounds ; the hen, nine and a half pounds. The hen is 

 moulting, and does not look as well as usual. This imported 



