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that the quality of our annual shows in poultry has advanced 

 nearly one hundred per cent, since our first acquaintance with 

 tliem a few years since ; a fact which proves that our farmers 

 are becoming more and more alive to the profit as well as pleas- 

 ure to be derived from an intelligent cultivation of this interest- 

 ing branch of rural economy. The amount expended in pre- 

 miums is already far more than compensated for by the increased 

 attractiveness of our annual displays, — less startling because 

 very gradual from year to year ; and we have no doubt that if 

 a census could be taken, the'value of eggs and poultry raised 

 in Bristol County would be found to have increased at least 

 forty per cent, within the last ten years. We do not form this 

 opinion altogether from our annual exhibitions, but from 

 frequent excursions over a large section of the country during 

 the last two or three years. The Brahmas may now be con- 

 sidered the common fowl of the country ; a breed which is an 

 admirable one for all farmers who wish to raise a handsome flock 

 of chickens without much trouble, as the young ones hatched 

 are almost certain to live. Next to these, the Leghorns seem 

 to be the favorites. We hope in a few years to see Houdans 

 and Gray Dorkings as numerous as the Brahmas, though the 

 latter is a most valuable breed, and we hope it will continue to 

 be bred pure. 



Li our report of last year, some general remarks and statistics 

 were given with regard to poultry raising. We have received 

 a little statement, which we insert here for the purpose of 

 showing what we then stated, that the raising of poultry could 

 be made as profitable as any other branch of agriculture. The 

 following is the statement of Dr. Justin Prior, of Orange, N. J. : 

 " On January 1st, 1870, we had on hand sixty-three fowls, con- 

 sisting of five Brahma cocks, twenty-four Brahma hens, twenty- 

 one Leghorn hens, two Chittagong hens, one Poland hen, five 

 common hens, two Silver Hamburg hens, two ducks, one drake. 



From January 1st, 1870, to August 1st, 1870, we have 



received for eggs and poultry, . . . .1199 80 

 Amount paid out for feed and sundries, ... 54 82 



Leaving a profit of $144 98 



