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since received ; we can assure Dr. Bennett of a most cordial 

 welcome for his novel and interesting suggestion. ED. OF 

 CULTIVATOR. 



Mr. James Pedder, the editor of the Cultivator, entered into 

 the project with great zeal, and with his characteristic enlarge 

 ment of views, proposed that the plan of the exhibition should 

 be extended, and become a general Fowl Show. In an edito- 

 rial article, in his paper of Oct. 27, he says, 



" According to a promise made to many applicants, we 

 *-ould propose to Dr. Bennett 'to use his influence in the 

 formation of a convention of domestic fowl breeders and 

 fanciers, on a magnificent scale, giving to New England the 

 honor of being the first in a movement that will be felt in every 

 state in the Union.' In this country we have cattle-shows, 

 conventions of fruit-growers, &c., and in England they have 

 not only these, but ' gooseberry shows!' while nowhere have 

 they a * convention of domestic fowl-breeders and fowl-fan- 

 ciers,' nor have we. In view of this step, we presume it will be 

 necessary to select a more suitable place for the annual exhibi- 

 tion a feature which we are fully prepared to see the proposal 

 assume than the Quincy Market ; and where comfort and 

 shelter might be secured for the numerous visitors which will 

 be sure to be present, as also for the animals to be exhibited : 

 and we would venture to propose, that the meeting be held in 

 the Public Gardens, where pavilions might be prepared, with 

 a sale of entrance tickets at the doors, if four-pence only in 

 price, to pay expenses and render it more select, each ticket 

 holding good for the whole time of exhibition. This, we con- 

 ceive, would be to give a respectability to the occasion, and if 

 proper persons are selected to form a committee of arrange- 

 ments, and give it their countenance, we think the end in view 

 might be accomplished, as our friends express it, ' on a mag- 

 nificent scale.' We would be pleased to be made the depository 



