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instances to interfere with them while in the discharge of 

 their duties, and in one case it became so persistent that 

 the committee informed him that according to the rules 

 of the Society he had forfeited his claim to receive premi- 

 ums. To the honor of most of the exhibitors be it said 

 that there was no interference from them, but for the sake 

 of the few who try to influence the judges in favor of 

 their own exhibits they should be reminded of the rule 

 forbidding all interference. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. H. TENNEY, 



Chairman of Committee. 

 Rowley, Sept. 28. 1893. 



STATEMENT OF MRS. J. H. PERKINS, LYNXFIELD CENTRE, 



MASS. 



The fowls entered for premium are a cross between Red 

 Legliorn and Light Bramah, hatched by Prairie State In- 

 cubator, in May, 1892, and began laying in September. 



When hatched they were transferred to brooders, heated 

 with kerosene lamp. At the seventh day all infertile 

 eggs were tested from the incubator. These I boiled 

 hard and fed to the chicks, with fine cracked corn sifted 

 from the coarse. The second week I added baked pota- 

 toes and whole wheat thoroughly scalded. When three 

 weeks old a small quantity of animal meal and scraps 

 were added to their fare, feeding five times a day, also 

 leaves from white clover and fine 03^ster shell. When six 

 weeks old I gave a soft feed, consisting of cracked corn, 

 oats, wheat one fourth each, with a liberal quantity of 

 animal meal and scraps, feeding morning and noon, at 

 night I gave them cracked corn, wheat and barley, one 

 third each. This course of feed was continued through 

 the winter with the addition of clover hay cut fine and 

 two qts. of cooked potatoes scalded with their morning 

 feed, and sufficient salt to season the whole feed. 



