POULTRY. 291 



34 bushels corn, 75 cents, $25 50 



16 bushels oats, 50 cents, . . . . . 8 00 



Expense of feedhig, 10 00 



8102 00 

 3 pigs weighed when dressed, respectively, 513, 

 607, 723 pounds, amounting to 1,843 pounds, 

 at 9^ cents, 170 48 



Netgain, 168 48 



POULTRY. 



ESSEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Communications were received from most of the exhibitors, 

 the general characteristic of which was a great barrenness of 

 interesting and profitable details. We present the following as 

 containing facts which may be of value to tlio community. 



Of the Brahma-poutres exhibited by him, Mr. Barnaby writes : 

 " Tiiese chickens (seven pullets) were hatched the 10th of 

 April. I have fed them altogether on common Indian corn 

 and meal, with the exception of cooked, coarse meat once a 

 week. They commenced laying the first of September, and 

 have laid 106 eggs up to this date, September 29 " — when four 

 months and twenty days old. Of a cross between the pure 

 Bolton Grey and Brahma-poutre, Mr. Warren writes : " They 

 were hatched the 20th of May, and the pullets commenced lay- 

 ing the 16th of September " — when four months and fourteen 

 days old. The Seabright bantams exhibited by Mr. Ives, were 

 exceedingly beautifnl. Mr. Ives presented the following state- 

 ment: "The mother of the Golden Seabrights on exhibition 

 (six in number) during the months of March, April and May 

 layed 408 eggs, or 34 dozen in 92 days. I have kept at differ- 

 ent times upwards of twelve different kinds of fowls, and as far 

 as my experience goes, I pronounce the Seabrights the best 

 laying fowls I have ever seen. Tlieir eggs are larger in propor- 



