APPENDIX. JIM 



Boston, March 1st, 1850. 

 DR. J. C. BENNETT, Plymouth, Mass. 



SIR : Having now concluded our official duties as a Commit- 

 tee of Supervision in connection with the exhibition of Poultry, 

 held in the Public Garden, on the 15th and 16th days of Nov., 

 1849, we deem it a special duty to do you the justice of recog- 

 nizing the active share you had in originating that exhibition. 



We congratulate you on the success which has followed 

 your original suggestion. It is but rarely that such promising 

 results reward disinterested action such as yours. Previous 

 to the time you first proposed an exhibition, there were but 

 few who manifested any interest in the improvement of domestic 

 poultry, although its importance tacitly operated on the prac- 

 tice of many, who acted on no regulated principle of manage- 

 ment. That interest, within the past six months, has extended 

 far beyond our most sanguine expectations ; and it gratifies us 

 to find that the correct principles of breeding and managing 

 poultry are so generally inquired after. 



It especially gratifies us, as it must also satisfy you, to find 

 that an interest has been taken in our exhibition which includes 

 men belonging to every section of our large community, as in 

 this fact we foresee a liberal distribution of benefit. Oar 

 excellent Governor was the first to enrol his name on the list 

 of members pf the society just established. 



The future is so full of promise, that we entertain the hope 

 our labors have not been altogether in vain. 



Receive the assurance of our highest esteem and respect. 

 We' are, sir, your very obedient servants, 



SAMUEL JAQUES, ~) Committee of Supervision 

 EBEN WIGHT, | at the Exhibition which 

 JOHN GILES, Wawie off at the Public Gar- 



TIMOTHY HOUSE, f/ . Aw. 15/A and 16th, 

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