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The capital employed in this branch of the farming business, in 

 this comity, cannot be less than one million of dollars. This 

 amount required in a mechanical business is sufficient to create, 

 in the mechanic^ a strong desire to be in possession of all the 

 improvements and facilities within his reach, for the more pro- 

 fitable prosecution of his business. There are but two branches 

 of agricultural and nine of mechanical industry, in the Common- 

 wealth, that yield a greater income than that derived from the 

 cow. Self-interest, the most powerful incentive, should lead to 

 that improvement in stock which will insure to the farmer the 

 greatest return for capital invested and labor expended. 



GEO. DENNY, Chairman. 



Poultry. 



Among other poultry, the Committee, Abiel Jaques, Chair- 

 man, say that 16 lots of barn-yard fowls were entered, — one 

 lot by Eben. Lincoln, of Grafton. For this lot we gave Mr. 

 Lincoln the highest premium, $3 ; also, a gratuity oi %\ for his 

 written account of the produce of 27 of his fowls for the last 

 seven months, viz : 199 dozen eggs at f 28, and 92 chickens at 

 ^23; total, $51 — besides 29 dozen eggs used in his family. 

 Feed — some meat, some fish, all kinds of grain, some lime or 

 pounded shells, enough sand and water, a warm dwelling and 

 good roosts. 



Butter. 



The Committee are under obligations to Samuel Chamberlain, 

 of Westborough, for his information in regard to the manufac- 

 ture of butter. His experience is great, as he has made, during 

 the past season, 4400 lbs. It is not his custom to place his milk 

 in the cellar, unless he can obtain a good supply of cool air. 

 The milk is allowed to stand for six and thirty hours before 



