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that the object of those who exhibit fjmcy fowls at fairs, is not 

 the direct money vahie of the premiums obtained, but their 

 far greater vakie as descriptive adjectives in advertising their 

 stock for sale throughout the country. It is, then, not only 

 our duty to ourselves to protect the reputation of the society, 

 as one qualitied to confer such premiums, in accordance with 

 the acknowledged standard for judging poultry, in use by all 

 poultry associations ; but it becomes a duty, a point of 

 honor, as it were, between man and man, because, perchance, 

 some poultry breeder in a distant State, seeing an advertise- 

 ment containing the award, buys, and pays a good price for 

 our first premium fowl, expecting that we, as good judges, 

 have made the award as his society have made theirs, in ac- 

 cordance with the said standard. We therefore recommend 

 that the poultry exhibit be divided into two distinct classes, 

 the first class to consist of those bred as fancy fowls, whilst 

 the second class shall be composed of those bred as egg pro- 

 ducers. 



2d. That the standard of authority for judging poultry be 

 changed from Halstead to the "American Standard of Excel- 

 lence," now in use by all poultry societies. 



3d. That the Board of Judges shall ho chosen with rcijard 

 to their special knowledge of the difterent varieties for which 

 premiums are oftered. 



4th. That all fowls exhibited shall be entered with the Sec- 

 retary, and designated only by entry number and variety ex- 

 hibited, until after the award of premiums. 



Recommended — That the second class shall consist of poul- 

 try kept for profit from eggs and meat. That this is the 

 direct poultry business it is needless to dispute, as a glance 

 at statistics gives us no chance to gainsay that it is an 

 important form adjunct. In New York city, in 1870, the 

 sale of eggs amounted to 19,900,700 dozen at a value of 

 $4, 928, 2U). 20. In 1873, 31,148,007 dozen, amounting to 

 $6,976,G03.25, showing an increase of nearly 50 per cent, in 

 three years. Somebody raised and sold them, and somebody 

 will raise and sell eggs and poultry, thereby increasing the 

 productive industry of the country hy a very considerable 

 sum yearly, besides making the old farms look pleasanter to 

 the boys and girls. It might be said here as well as any- 

 where, that all these little things which tend to make life 

 pleasanter to the boys and girls on the farm, should be en- 



