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except one, vvliich one suddenly died when about half 

 grown ; upon examination, a black spider was found in its 

 crop, which was supposed to have caused its death. 



The experiment which 1 have tried in raising this brood 

 is this. I took equal parts of oat and corn and cob meal, (if 

 another equal part of barley meal had been added it would 

 have been better) and mixed them together. With this they 

 were fed until about three weeks ago, when I boiled potatoes 

 and mixed with the meal. We think Indian meal alone 

 very injurious, especially to young turkeys ; we also gave 

 them as much curdled milk as they would eat. Since the 

 young turkeys were hatched, the old one has laid over three 

 dozen eggs. 



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FRUITS AND FLOWERS. 



The display of Fruit this year furnishes many evidences 

 of an increased attention to Horticulture. The show is 

 better than last year, though in the amount presented, and 

 in the plumpness and fairness of specimens, it falls short of 

 some former years. Fruit growers however, cannot control 

 the seasons. The unfriendly weather in the early months 

 of the year seriously impaired the quality and quantity of 

 most kinds of fruit. 



Your Committee however find much encouragement, and 

 congratulate the Society in the hopeful increase of svperior 

 varieties. In that, they see decided indications of effort in 

 the right direction. Quite as much care, culture, time and 

 land is requisite to bring an indifferent Pear to a bearing 

 condition as will suffice for the Flemish Beauty, Bartlett or 

 Seckel. The Blue Pearmain and Scraper Apples, in their 

 liighest state of perfection, cannot equal the Gravenstein, 

 Hubbardston, Nonsuch and Baldwin, and yet one is quite 

 as e^Lpcnsivc to raise as the other. 



