APPENDIX. 



The committee have alluded above to a difficulty, involving 

 the greatest care, in preserving the different varieties of fowls 

 distinct ; and this difficulty attaches to the improved crosses as 

 well. To blend the characteristics of two separate breeds, so 

 that there will be no undue preponderance of the blood of 

 either in the produce, is a work of great labor, and the most 

 jealous care. The process must be carried on with the same 

 degree of exactness, and be accompanied with as much careful 

 calculation, as an astronomer would use to satisfy himself 

 regarding the future appearance of a comet. Many genera 

 tions of fowls must be operated upon, before anything like 

 perfection can be attained. This being the case, it is perfectly 

 evident that it becomes imperatively the duty of fowl-breeders 

 to apply their care and observation to the preservation of pure 

 stock, as upon that, and that alone, the profit of their labor 

 depends. 



It is, perhaps, no part of the duty of the committee, in 

 making up their report, to enter on more specific details con- 

 cerning the procuring and preserving the various breeds of 

 fowls, and they might, under this dubious feeling, have con- 

 tented themselves with what they have already hinted, on these 

 subjects ; but a gentleman of Boston, known as an ornitholo- 

 gist, and a natural historian, having been solicited to furnisi 

 them with his views on the classification of domestic poultry 

 and the kinds which might, with advantage, be introduced into 

 our New England poultry-yard, his kind compliance with the 

 wish of the committee has determined them to carry the sub- 

 ject further. 



