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Weighed at 19 weeks old, 150 lbs. Gain in 21 days, 40 lbs. 

 " Sept. 13, 179 '' '' 16 " 29 " 



u u 19^ 192 u u 6 a 13 u 



u u 24, 204 '' " 5 " 12 " 



" 104 " 161 " 



He has had nothing more than common feed — skim milk, 

 pork scraps, raw apples, &c., which cost, on an average, about 

 four and one half cents per day. 



Dover, Sept. 24, 1851. 



Poultry. 



The character of the contributions was greatly superior to 

 that manifested the previous year, and exhibited itself in all 

 the varieties brought forward, which included the choicest 

 sorts, and especially in the case of distinctive breeds, which are 

 generally cultivated in Norfolk county. When the great and 

 rising importance of poultry improvement is taken into consid- 

 eration, the fact stated must be gratifying to members, zealous 

 that the objects of the society should be prominently exempli- 

 fied, even in the meanest of its details of practice. Collateral 

 circumstances prove that poultry breeding in the county of 

 Norfolk in this State, places it in the position that the English 

 county of the same name, has long upheld, viz., that of being 

 the leading district in the country in the improvement of do- 

 mestic poultry, and the cultivation of the best modes of man- 

 aging that interesting department of domestic economy. Not 

 only has Norfolk made the poultry department the most inter- 

 esting of its annual exhibitions, but she has carried off the 

 palm of merit at the fairs of the New England Society for the 

 Improvement of Domestic Poultry. While this fact is to be 

 contemplated with a feeling of pride, it has bearings indicative 

 of more substantial results, as your committee will briefly at- 

 tempt to show. 



The quantity of poultry raised within the county, it may 

 safely be said, has been more than quadrupled compared with 



