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reliable sources. For instance, from the Montreal Pilot, we 

 learn that there were shipped from Montreal to the United 

 States from May 1st of the present year to June 16th, two 

 thousand and seven hundred barrels of eggs. Dr. Bennett tells 

 us, in his work upon poultry, that the value of poultry in the 

 United States at the present time, will reach the fine little sum 

 of twenty millions of dollars. We find that in the year 1848 

 the sales of poultry in the city of Boston amounted to over one 

 million of dollars, and the sale of eggs to as much more. In 

 the face of such facts, who will say it is a matter of little con- 

 sequence whether we keep fowls or not, or whether they are 

 good, bad, or indifferent ? For a description of the different 

 varieties, manner of rearing, feeding, fattening, and a descrip- 

 tion of their diseases with instructions for their treatment, we 

 would respectfully refer our friends to the large number of val- 

 uable treatises now published. In conclusion, the committee 

 do not hesitate to assert, that with proper attention fowls can 

 be reckoned as profitable stock for every farmer, and Avith 

 pleasing satisfaction they confess that the show of poultry in 

 the present instance far exceeded in number and quality, their 

 most sanguine expectations. Let each contributor also, feel 

 the satisfaction of having had a part in this exhibition, and re- 

 solve that, fine as the display for 1850 was, he will try and 

 eclipse it in 1851. 



The whole number of contributors was forty-nine. Whole 

 number of fowls five hundred and forty-eight of which forty- 

 three were water fowls, four turkeys, and also two fine lots of 

 pigeons. The committee would award as follows : 



C. F. Putnam, of Salem, for a fine display of Shanghae, 

 Black Spanish, Singapore, and six other varieties, $2 50 



G. W. George, of Haverhill, fine Shanghae and Imperial 

 Chitagong fowls, 2 50 



D. Buxton, jr.. South Danvers, fine Shanghae, Black 

 Spanish, Mexican, and one other variety, 2 50 



J. H. Brookhouse, Salem, fine Shanghae, Java, Golden 



Polish and one other variety, 2 50 



S. & O. Southwick, Danvers, fine Shanghae, Java, 



Black Spanish, Dorking, and six other varieties, 2 50 



