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tural Society to enlarge the individual as well as itself. Not a 

 family that attended our late Fair but has exclaimed, " I have 

 had a good time " ; and it only makes us feel a little sad that 

 there are not more festivals like these. With a firm faith in 

 the value of our cause, we respectfully submit our report. 



G. J. PETERSON, 



JAMES H. AVEST, )- Committee. 



E. REED, 



POULTRY. 



Another Fair has come and gone, and it remains to us to add 

 another to the list of reports on poultry. While the number of 

 fowls exhibited was less than at any exhibition for several 

 years, your Committee found no cause for discouragement, 

 from the fact that nearly all present were first-class fowl, those 

 missed being of the ordinary or inferior class, which it has 

 been our aim to discourage. 



There being no fever or excitement on the subject at present, 

 the raising of poultry may be supposed to be conducted on a 

 purely business basis, and the late exhibition, taken as a whole, 

 shows a tendency on the part of breeders to throw aside the 

 larger breeds, and replace them with those of a medium size. 

 This, we think, is for the best, for although every one likes to 

 see large fowl, and they will doubtless continue to be bred for 

 exhibition purposes, those of a medium size possess many 

 advantages where a profit is desired. Some of the best laying 

 fowl we have ever seen were the result of cross between the 



