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committee could judge, and evidently Mr. Hawkes felt 

 that he ought to receive both 1st and 2d premium on them. 

 There being no competitors, and there being no question 

 in the committee's mind as to their merit, they felt that 

 if any premium was to be awarded it should be a 1st 

 premium, and as two 1st premiums to the same exhibitor 

 are not according to the rules of the society, as the 

 committee understood them, they could not award them 

 to him. Moreover they had already awarded him nine 

 1st premiums, and these fowls being regarded by them as 

 specimens of his 'flock, they could not conscientiously 

 award him a 2d premium. 



The committee desire to ask, for the benefit of other 

 committees that may come after them, that hereafter the 

 poultry exhibit shall be arranged in groups according to 

 breeds, instead of grouping each exhibitor's coops^ together, 

 maybe of many different breeds. In this way the com- 

 mittee can much more easily compare the exhibits and 

 decide as to their merits. 



The committee were much hindered and troubled 

 at the recent fair by the crowd of visitors that were con- 

 stantly in the tent while they were making the examina- 

 tions and were making up their decisions ; and they would 

 respectfully ask the feasibility of a rail excliuiing all 

 visitors from the tent for a reasonable time — one hour, or 

 perhaps a little longer time. They feel certain that if 

 the breeds had been arranged in groups together, and the 

 crowd of visitors excluded from the tent, they could 

 have accomplished more and have done the work more 

 satisfactorily in one hour than they did in two. 

 The committee regret that they feel the necessity of 

 calling 3"0ur attention to one phase of their experience 

 which was unpleasant and somewhat embarrassing, viz : — 

 the disposition on the part of a few of the exhibitors to 

 closely follow them and to hear whatever might be said 

 about their exhibits or the exhibits of others, and in some 



