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may be elicited, by experiments in feeding the uneasy and 

 troublesome that are to be fattened, by feeding them regularly 

 four times a day instead of three — the usual method. Respect- 

 ing the disposition of the animals we would only now say, that 

 the feeder must carefully study the habits and character of each. 

 Let the turbulent be provided with a quiet resting-place, the 

 quarrelsome be separated from each other, and let the exces- 

 sively greedy have the temptation of a competitor in eating 

 removed out of sight. On these and numerous other points 

 we want careful and protracted experiments by our intelligent 

 and enterprising farmers. ^Ye hope that another year will find 

 some of them ready to receive, not only the liberal premium 

 offered by the society, but the thanks of the community, for 

 their efforts. 



M. G-. J. Emery, Chairman. 



POULTRY. 



ESSEX. 

 Report of the Committee. 



The Committee on Poultiy, having attended to the duties 

 assigned to them, and having had their eyes carefully cocked 

 over a considerable collection of closely-caged and cooped, 

 clawed and calcarated, captives, clamorously crowing, cackling 

 and clucking, candidates of scratching, corn-catching, cocks- 

 combical, cockadoodledoodom, continually calling on the commit- 

 tee for conscientious consideration, feel spurred to concoct the 

 following report : — 



They found upon the field of display, and upon a range of 

 platforms, running, to the best of their judgment, in a line 

 from X. X. W. to S. S. E., and in plain view of the "proud 

 bird of America," (whose gilded wooden 



"eyes were open, though their sense was shut," — Macbeth,) 



perched on the summit of the tower of the City Hall of Law- 



