8 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



The Address was delivered by Henry K. Oliver, Esq., of 

 Lawrence. 



MOSES NEWELL, President. 



ALLEN W. DODGE, Secretary. 



On Poultry. 



The committee on poultry, in making up their report, re- 

 gret to say, that the exhibition, as a whole, both as to number 

 and quality of fowls, is not equal to that of last year. 



The Committee award the first gratuity, of Five Dollars, to 

 Messrs. S. & O. Southwick, for the best lot of fowls, consist- 

 ing in part of Spanish, Dorkings, Shanghais, Guilderlands, 

 Irish and English Games, Black Bantams and other varieties, 

 mostly of pure blood. They also exhibited a fine specimen of 

 China Geese. 



These gentlemen seem to have sustained their high reputa- 

 tion as fowl-fanciers and breeders, both in the variety and great 

 purity of their different kinds of stock. 



David Manock, of Andover, exhibited the most perfect speci- 

 men of Bolton Greys the committee have ever seen. They 

 award him the second gratuity, of . . . $1 50 



Warner W. Tilton, of Haverhill, exhibited a lot of very 



fine African Bantams, the best fowls of the kind on 



the field. A gratuity was awarded to him of . 1 00 



David Merrill, 2d, of Methuen, presented a coop of 



Golden Polartds, which were of good quality, and 



the committee award him a gratuity of , . 1 00 



To John Smith, of Methuen, a gratuity was awarded, 



for his excellent specimen of Cochin Chinas, of . 1 00 

 Henry K. Oliver, of Lawrence, exhibited a lot of good 



fowls, among them a fine pair of Cochin Chinas, for 



which, and other good specimens, they award him . 1 00 

 S. Marshall, of Lawrence, offered a pair of Poland 



Chickens, of good quality ; gratuity, . . .50 



