CHAPTER XIX. 



THE rOURTH, FOWL-SHOW IN BOSTON. 



This show (in September, 1852) was the fifth exhibi- 

 tion held in Boston, but the/owr^A only of the Society with 

 the long name. 



The Report commences with a congratulation (as usual) 

 that the association still lives, and has a being ; and, after 

 alluding to the general state of the affairs of the concern, — 

 without touching upon its financial condition, — it thus 

 proceeds : 



"Your Committee would call your attention to the fact 

 that among the numerous fowls exhibited this season, — as 

 upon former occasions,' — a very unnecessary practice seems 

 to have obtained, in the mia-naming of varieties. Cross- 

 bred fowls have been called by original cognomens, unknown 

 to practical breeders ; and a host of birds well known to the 

 Committee, as well as to poulterers generally, have been 

 denominated by any other than their 7-eal and universally 

 conceded ornithological titles. This savors of bad taste ; it 

 leads to ridicule among strangers who visit our shows from 



