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NEW EXGLAND FAKIVIER. 



March 



DOMINIQUE SHANGHAI. 



The fragments of the writings of distin- 

 guished men* are sometimes collected together 

 and given to the world as "Unpublished Man- 

 uscripts." As a fragment of that great event, 

 the Hen Fever of 1852, we present this month, 

 the above illustration as an "unpublished cut." 

 It was engraved to illustrate the text of a 

 work on poultry, which in consequence of the 

 sudden abatement of that fever was never 

 published. It is well seasoned, and is too 

 gpod to be lost ; as it was drawn from life, and 

 truthfully represents one branch of the Shan- 

 ghai family, although the leg feathers, which 

 were a characteristic of the Grey and other 

 varieties of the Chinese fowls, are wanting. 

 Our cut, we believe, was drawn from a pair 

 of fowls of the importation of Dr. Kerr, of 

 Philadelphia, made in 1847, and bred by Mr. 

 P. Melendy, now of Iowa. 



As a memorial of this once famous breed 

 Mr. Bement closes his account of them, in his 

 American Poulterer's Companion, with the 

 following remarks: — "It was the Shanghai 



which created the "Fowl Fever," a few years 

 since, and it was on the Shanghai that the 

 bubble burst. They are no longer the aristoc- 

 racy of the fowl-yard ; their day has passed, 

 their race is run." 



For the New England Farmer, 

 SUPERPHOSPHATES AND OTHER CON- 

 CENTRATED MANURES. 



Friend Brown : — During the two days 

 and evenings of the "Farmers' Convention" 

 at Manchester, N. H., last week, the sub- 

 ject of commercial and artificially prepared 

 manures, was pretty fally discussed. The 

 amount of money annually expended by 

 the American farmer for» guanos, superphos- 

 phates, poudrettes, ground bones, fish pomace, 

 and other concentrated manures, in the aggrC' 

 gate, is a vast sum. 



From the best information I can obtain, I 

 think their use is annually upoa the increase, 

 and the inference is that farmers, upon the 

 whole, find the purchase and application of 

 them to their land a profitable investment; 

 though occasionally the use of them disap- 

 points the expectations of the farmer. Such 



