POULTRY. 6T 



To W. D. Hussey, of Andover, one dollar, for his White Ducks, 

 very clean and handsome birds indeed, and we wonder that since 

 Ducks are so easily managed and kept, that so few are found about 

 the farmhouse. Probably it is the difficulty of having water handy 

 for them to swim in, that prevents. They are hearty feeders and 

 not very fastidious, being equally ready to bolt snails, worms, bread, 

 soaked meal, animal offal, and the varied refuse of the kitchen, and 

 very easily keep themselves in good condition. 



To E. G. Berry, of North Danvers, one dollar, for his Bantam 

 Hen, with her three broods of cJiickens, all of the present " year of 

 grace " 1854, she having hatched no fewer than twenty-six chicks 

 at her three several settings. Now here is a Bantam " as is a Ban- 

 tam," an example to all clucking Hendom, for persistent practice 

 in the vocation whereunto she was born. Surely if the younglings 

 had been asked " Does your mother know you are out ?" they must 

 have given a negative reply, for what mother's memory could be 

 equal to knowing it of such a multitude ! 



To John Hart, of Lawrence, one dollar, for his Black Spanish 

 Cocks and Hens — first rate birds in all points, glossy, black, high 

 combed, long wattled and white cheeked, and the Committee assure 

 Mr. Hart that they heartily praise his specimens. 



To J. Farmer, of North Andover, one dollar and a half, for his 

 White Shanghae Cock and Hen and her fourteen chicks, very hand- 

 some specimens of a very ugly race, of which (race and ugliness 

 both,) the Committee will speak briefly hereafter. 



To S. B. Kelly, of Haverhill, seventy-five cents, for his Java 

 Game Fowls. 



To T. G. Morrill, of Georgetown, one dollar, for his Black Poland 

 Hens and Black and Brown Bantams. 



To E. C. Bartlett, of Lawrence, for his Bantam Cock, accom- 

 panied by eight chicks, which, said tender and chicken-hearted Cock 

 cared for, brooded over, fed, nursed and reared, when forsaken by 

 their unnaturally cruel mother, who had scarcely " found them out" 

 of the shell, when she forsook them to the cold charity of an un- 

 feeling world. And yet in justice to her it must be said, that, if cold 

 in her affections, she was warm in her ovarium, since immediately 

 on hatching and deserting her brood, she returned to her nest and 

 became fertilely parturient and oviparous. Instances of this pater- 



