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I refer your readers to Mr. Dixon's treatise for a more 

 extended list of weights, who will still farther confirm the 

 assertion, that, in point of weight, our fowls are superior. 



POULTRY WEIGHED THIS DAY IN MY OWN YARD. 



Ibs. 02. 



Cochin China cock, 13 months old, 11 4 



Cochin China stag, 8 months old, 9 12 



Cochin China pullet, 7 months old, 6 10 



Cochin China pullet, 8 months old, 7 2 



Chittagong stag, S months old, 10 6 



Chittagong pullet, 7 months old, 8 7 



Chittagong pullet, 8 months old, 9 2 



Chittagong pullet, 6 months old, 6 12 



Chittagong hen, 2 years old, 10 6 



I have a Chittagong hen, three years and three months old, 

 which last spring weighed thirteen and one fourth pounds ; 

 she being, however, a rara avis, should not be regarded as a 

 fair sample. 



[She is now owned by Mr. Joseph A. Sampson, of Duxbury.] 

 The English fowls were weighed about seven weeks since, 

 when scarcely over the effects of moulting. This might make 

 a difference of a pound or a pound and a half, in their favor, 

 over fowls weighed now ; but even then, the balance is still 

 heavily in our favor. And so I think every breeder or fancier 

 who breeds judiciously, pure fowls, will find, at least, in the 

 question of weight, a balance in his favor over the best and most 

 reliable results of the English breeder. To what this superiority 

 is owing, whether to our drier climate, or a better selection 

 of stock, I pretend not to say ; but knowing the facts, I have 

 thought proper to record them, with the view of encouraging 

 at once our breeders in a proper use of their own mate- 

 rial, and preventing the young and ardent fancier expending 

 money in sending for large transatlantic fowls, only to be dis- 



