186 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Oct. 1, 1869. Stock on hand, 54 hens, 2 cocks and 



17 chickens, $125 75 



Oct. 1, 1868. Stock on hand, 54 hens, 3 cocks, . 114 00 



Balance, 869 13 



Eight Crevecoeurs and six Bantams have been kept the whole 

 season out of the above feed, but they, or their products, are not 

 estimated in the above account. It must have cost at least 

 823 to have kept them ; and, therefore, that sum must be 

 added to the profits, which would make it amount to 892.13. 



Also, one coop for premium, containing a trio of one-half 

 Brahma and one-half Crevecoeur chickens, three months old. 

 I crossed the Brahma and Crevecoeur breeds, thinking that per- 

 haps I might obtain a cross superior to either. These chickens 

 have grown very much faster than either the pure Brahmas or 

 Crevecoeurs of the same age. 



John H. Moore. 



worcester north. 



From the Report of the Committee. 

 We firmly believe that in giving our influence to encourage 

 the improvement of poultry, we are contributing largely to the 

 support of the agricultural interest of the State. Unfortunately, 

 there are not, so far as we know, reliable general statistics existing 

 to show what is the proportion which poultry bears to the other 

 farmproducts of the Commonwealth; but it is believed that neither 



