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The second premium to Joseph Kittredge, of Andover, . . 5 00 

 The first premium for three year old Colt to James Marsh, 



of Danvers, 6 00 



The second premium to Joseph A. Berry, of Middleton, . . 4 00 

 The first premium for two year old Colt to George W. 



Sawyer, of Boxford, , . 5 00 



The second premium to Jonathan Berry, of Middleton, . . 3 00 

 The first premium for yearling Colt to Charles Ingalls, of 



Andover, 4 00 



The second premium to Daniel G. Todd, of Rowley, .... 200 

 The Colts were all of so good a quality that the Committee, in 

 their judgment, considered them worthy of mileage, and would re- 

 commend that it be allowed accordingly. 



I. OSGOOD LORING, Chairman. 



POULTRY. 



The Committee on Poultry, having attended to the duties as- 

 signed 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, cockscombical, cockadoo- 

 dledoodom, continually calling on the Committee for conscientious 

 consideration, feel spurred to concoct the following Report : 



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

 forms, running, to the best of their judgment, in a line from N. N. 

 W. to S. S. E., and in plain view of the " proud bird of America," 

 (whose gilded wooden 



" eyes were open, tho' their sense was shut," — Macbeth.) 



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

 Lawrence, a goodly variety of coops and cages, some prepared with 

 taste and judgment, and some with no taste nor judgment at all, 

 and containing a varied collection and some excellent specimens of 

 the gallinaceous race, as well as some ratherish indifferent samples 



