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Conway team numbered 46 head. This team also had 

 some superior pairs of four years old steers; three pairs, aver- 

 age weight 0,670, and well matched. But we must speak of a 

 pair of calves on the lead of this team, owned by C. Arms, 

 weight 5,-V}0 pounds, which your committee think cannot be 

 beaten in this State or in any other, as to beauty, if in size. 

 Verily, they would make fine leaders to the World's Fair. 

 All which is respectfully submitted. 



R. H. Leavitt, Chairman. 



Shelburne, 1st premium, .... ^15 00 

 Conway, 2d " .... 10 00 



Fowls. 



The first premium is awarded to Mr. G. B. Alverson, of 

 Greenfield, for the best lot of Black Spanish fowls ; better spe- 

 cimens are rarely seen in any poultry yard — good layers, fine 

 meated, and fine cooking fowls. 



The second premium is awarded to Mr. Wm. A. Rowland, 

 of Conway, for two lots, composed of a mixture of Shanghae 

 and other large breeds. They were all very fat, healthy, fine 

 looking fowls of the kind, but the committee do not consider 

 this kind of fowls so good as that entered by Mr. Alverson, 

 and it was this consideration mainly which determined the 

 premiums. The committee are of opinion that the Shanghae 

 and other large breeds of hens are not on the whole so desira- 

 ble or profitable as the smaller breeds. Had we been gov- 

 erned by the number and size of the fowls exhibited, and the 

 interest and system manifested in fowl raising, we should 

 probably have awarded the first premium to Mr. Rowland. 

 Mr. Rowland had, January 1, 1852, fifty hens and four cocks; 

 since that time, these hens have laid 4,807 eggs, and raised 

 about seventy chickens ; one of these hens has laid 146 eggs 

 during this period and hatched and raised a brood of nine 

 chickens; one pullet of this brood began to lay on the 7th 

 day of August, being then four months and twelve days old, 

 and has now laid twenty-two eggs. 



Of his mode of raising hens, Mr. Rowland himself says : — 



