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is no lack about Thanksgiving time, and the hen-hearted and 

 hen-pecked are mostly of our own race. 



r. Poole, J. I. Ladd, Eben Sutton, Committee. 



STATEMENT OF JOHN S. IVES. 



I enter for your consideration a trio of Brahma Fowls, 16 

 months old, as a sample '* in purity " of 400 chickens raised 

 this season. Also a trio of English Hamburg Pheasants. I 

 also exhibit a trio of pure Bremen Geese. Having heard 

 much in regard to the profit and unprofitableness of keeping 

 geese, I determined to give my opinion from actual experi- 

 ence ; I therefore obtained this trio last spring. In not un- 

 derstanding the management of geese, and allowing them to 

 set near each other, they hatched but 12 goslings, which were 

 raised without accident, and sold, when about 10 weeks old, 

 to Mr. Wheeler, at Salem market, for $24. They were very 

 profitable. I intend to breed them with more care another 

 season. 



STATEMENT OF WM. RANKIN, JR. 



I enter for premium eight Brahma Pootra Chickens — four 

 of them hatched in April and four in May. Also three old 

 fowls — one rooster and hen one year old, and another hen 

 older. 



I raised last year eighteen pullets, of which the above are 

 a specimen. I sold eggs enough from them, from the first of 

 November, 1864, to the first of March, 1865, to amount to 

 $43, at market price. And since March 1st I have sold from 

 them and set ninety dozen at $1 per dozen, and thirty dozen 

 at market price ; — making a total income of $152.60. 



It has cost me to keep the above named eighteen, together 



