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second, he replied "action," — and the third, he still replied "ac- 

 tion." So the exhibitor of poultry should remember that "facts, 

 facts, facts" are what the farmer wishes, ere he will keep over a 

 dozen or two of fowl. Let him give such information as will show 

 the cost of keeping a flock of fowls "well-favored and fat-fleshed' ' 

 — and if after giving corn for months to another variety "very ill- 

 favored and lean-fleshed" they are as "ill favored" as before, let it 

 be known. If these statements show that with judicious manage- 

 ment certain breeds can be made a source of profit, if raised by the 

 farmer in large flocks, enquiry will be stimulated, emulation excit- 

 ed, improvement will follow as a matter of course, and future 

 chicken committees will have something to crow over. 



BEN: PERLEY POORE, Chairman. 



FARMS. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Farm Management, oflers the 

 the following report as the result of his own observations upon the 

 subject assigned to the committee, having been unable to consult 

 with his associates in relation to it : — 



The fact seems at length to be more than established, that the 

 long tried system adopted by our Society of ofiering premiums for 

 farm management, is unfortunately a bad one. That mistakes have 

 sometimes been made in awarding premiums, is not improbable ; 

 but this will by no means account for the singular fact, that not- 

 withstanding the offer of premiums really worth any man's having, 

 not a farmer in the county now cares enough about them to have 

 them. There must be some drawback to the pleasure of taking 

 premiums which it is time to examine and explain, if possible. The 

 committee on farms for 1852, in their report drawn up by our in- 

 defatigable Secretary, speak of " reiterating the old complaint that 

 so few of our farmers have been willing to come forward as compet- 



