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Sumner So'^icliwiek, South Danvers, best collection of fancy 

 poultry, embracing best specimens of Brama Pootra, 



Black Spanish, and Silver-laced Seab right bantams, 6.00 



T. Gr. Morrill, G>3org3town, Black Poland and Black bantams, 3.00 

 S. B. Kellej, Haverhill, best specimens "■of game fowl 



three varieties, 3.00 

 H. 0. EUingwood, North Andover, fine lot of 15 chickens, 



half Malay, half Dorking, 2.00 



Master A. L. George, Haverhill, two lots of Brama Pootras, 1.00 



J. W. Keniston, Haverhill, 6 Long Island game fowls, 1.00 



Dr. Palmer, Haverhill, Brama Pootras, 1.00 



Alvah Merrill, Haverhill, flock of 12 ducks, half wild, 3.00 



George Day, Bradford, flock of 18 young turkies, 3.00 



James Day, Haverhill, turkies, (not properly entered) 1.00 



Andrew J. Whittier, Methuen, 2 pair geese, 1.00 

 Joseph G. Smith, Georgetown, best collection of pigeons, 

 embracing the fan-tail, rufile-neck, tumblers, carriers 



and poters, all raised by himself, 3.00 

 G. G. Davis, North Andover, collection of fancy pigeons, 



and pair of turtle doves, 1.50 



Gilman Perley, Georgetown, collection of fancy pigeons, 1.00 



Master A. L. George, Haverhill, fancy pigeons, .50 



George Corliss, Haverhill, fine flock of 9 pea fowls, 1.00 



Thomas Berry, Lawrence, best rabbits, 1.00 



William H. Girdler, rabbits, .50 



Alfred A. Kimball, " .50 



E. B. Littlefield, " .50 



Wm. F. Johnson, white -woodchuck, .50 



In concluding this somewhat discursive report, your committee 

 ■would hope that censure may be averted from their successors by g, 

 classification and definition of the gratuities to be awarded. They 

 would further recommend that written statements be required in 

 every instance, and that a preference be given to fowls raised in 

 the county. True agricultural science (no matter to what subject 

 it may be applied) is, after all, but inferences drawn from well 

 ascertained truths — mere theories are of no value, except as their 

 application elicits profitable results. Demosthenes, when asked the 

 first requisite of eloquence, replied "action," — when asked the 



