AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Class 1—Gallinaceous Fowls. 
For the bost and largest variety of pure-brod fowls .$50 
For the second best do. 25 
For the third best do. 15 
Fourth best do...... 10 
Asiatic Fowls. 
For the best pair of Asiatic Fowls of whatever sub-va¬ 
riety . 20 
A. Shanghais .—For the best pair or trio, Red or Buff.. 5 
Second best do. 3 
For the best pair or trio of Black. 5 
Second best do. 3 
For the best pair or trio of White. 5 
Second best do. 3 
For the best pair or trio of Dominquc 
colored. 5 
Second best do.. 3 
B. Cochin China .—For the best pair or trio. 5 
Second best do. 3 
C. Brama Pootra .—For the best pair or trio. 5 
Second best do . 3 
D. Chittagong .—For the best pair or trio. 5 
Second best do . 3 
E. White Calcutta .—For the best pair or trio. 5 
Second best do . 3 
F. Black Java .—For the best pair or trio. 5 
Second best do. 3 
G. Hong Kong .—For the best pair or trio..' 5 
Second best do. 3 
Other Fowls. 
H. Black Spanish .—For the best pair or trio. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Third best do. 2 
I Dorking .—For the best trio of White.... .. 4 
Second best. 2 
For the best trio of Grey or Speckled. 4 
Second best do . 2 
Hamburghs .—For the best trio of Bolton Greys. 3 
Second best do . 2 
For the best trio of Spangled Ham- 
burghs . 3 
Second best do. 2 
Game .—For the best pair or trio of Sumatra. 5 
Second do. 3 
For the best pair or trio of Chinese Albin... 5 
Second do. 3 
For the best pair or trio of Earl Derby__ 5 
Second best do .s. 3 
For the best pair or trio of Mexican. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Other Game .—For the best trio. 6 
Second do. 3 
K. Dominique .—For the best pair or trio. 3 
For the second best. 2 
Guilderlands .—For the best pair or trio. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Polish .—For the best trio, White or Black. 3 
Second do. 2 
For the best trio of Golden Spangled. 3 
Second do. 2 
For the best pair of Silver Spangled. 3 
Second do .. 2 
O. Bantams .—For the best trio Gold laced Seabright... 5 
Second do. . 3 
For the best trio Silver laced Seabright. 5 
Second do. . 3 
For the best trio of Java. 3 
Second do.. 2 
For the best trio of African. 5 
Second do. 2 
Other Bantams .—For the best trio. 3 
Second best do. 2 
Glass II,— Turkeys. 
Wild .—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Domestic ..—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Class III .—Guinea Fowls. 
For the best pair. 3 
Second best. 2 
Class IV .—Pea Fowls. 
For the best pair. 3 
Second best. 2 
Class V.— Ducks. 
Aylesbury .—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Cayuga Black .—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Jluscovy .—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Top Knot .—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Common .—For the best pair. 3 
Second best do... 2 
Class VI.— Geese. 
Bremen .—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Chinese .—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
African .—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Wild .—For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Class VII.— Swans. 
For the best pair. 5 
Second best do. 3 
Class VIII.— Pigeons. 
For best and largest variety. 5 
Second best do . 2 
For the best pair of any distinct variety.... 
In view of the interests with which these animals are re¬ 
garded by many amateur breeders, the Managers have deem¬ 
ed it proper to admit for competition as 
Class IX.— Rabbits. 
bop-Eared —For the best pair. 5 
Common- —For the best pair. 2 
Second best do. 1 
And in consideration of the usefulness of the Terrier fam¬ 
ily, as a guardian of the household and poultry-yard, it has 
been deemed proper, also, to admit for competition as 
Class X.—Rat Terrier.Dogs. 
For the best specimen. 5 
Second do. 3 
Judges. —The following persons have been 
appointed Judges: 
Of the largest and lest variety —Daniel B. 
Haight, Dover Plains, N. Y.; David Taggart, 
Northumberland, Pa,; John Giles, Ot.; Francis 
Rotch, Butternuts, N. Y. 
Of the Asiatic Fowls — Robert Wilkinson, 
Westchester, N. Y.; W. R. Powell, Elizabeth¬ 
town, N. J.; David Taggart, Northumberland, 
Pa.; C. C. Plaisted, Great Falls, N. H.; D. D. 
T. Moore, Rochester, N. Y. 
Of all other Gallinaceous Fowls —John C. 
Jackson, Astoria, N. Y.; Samuel B. Parsons, 
Flushing, N. Y.; John Giles, Conn.; Luther 
Tucker, Albany, N. Y.; Samuel S. Beman, 
Hampton, Washington Co., N. Y. 
Of TurTceys, Guinea Fowls, Pea Fowls, Ducks, 
Geese and Swans —Chas. W. Bathgate, Fordham, 
N. Y.; Wm. J. Beck, Westchester, N. Y.; 
Francis Rotch, Butternuts, N. Y.; Theodore C. 
Peters, Darien, N. Y. 
Of Pigeons , Rabbits, Dogs and Deer —Edwin 
Thorne, New-York ; Geo. A Wells, Bridgeport, 
Conn.; Benj. Haynes, Elizabethtown, N. J.; 
John T. Andrew, West Cornwall, Ct.; J. M. 
Lovett, Albany, N. Y.; R. H. Van Rensselaer, 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
Judges to award Discretionary Premiums on 
animals not enumerated —Roswel L. Colt, Pater¬ 
son, N. J. ' Wm. De Lamano, New-York; Hon. 
D. S. Gregory, Jersey City; C. P. Holcomb, 
Newcastle, Del.; Lewis F. Allen, Black Rock, 
N. Y. 
In awarding prizes, the Judges will take into 
consideration: 
1st. Purity of blood; 2d. Points or form; 
3d. Size ; 4th. Beauty of plumage. 
The following Railroads have already agreed 
to transport Fowls to and from the Exhibition 
Free, and the Managers have no doubt that all 
the public conveyances in the country will ex¬ 
ercise the same liberality:—-N. Y. Central, Ilous- 
atonic, Naugatuck, N. Haven and N. London, 
Long Island, Hudson R., New Jersey Central, 
and Phila. and Reading R. R.; it being under¬ 
stood that Fowls thus transported gratis, are at 
the risk of the respective owners. 
Regulations. —Every coop is to be marked 
with the true name of the Fowls exhibited, and, 
when they are for sale, the price asked is to be 
legibly marked thereon. 
Exhibitors are expected to have their fowls 
exhibited in neat and tasteful coops, as small as 
convenient, and for the sake of uniformity, it is 
recommended that they be made of one-half inch 
stuff, and be 36 inches in length, 28 inches high, 
and 24 inches deep, with wire fronts. This 
rule, however, is not compulsory. 
Each exhibitor is expected to furnish, in wri¬ 
ting, all interesting information regarding the 
name, parentage, age or importation of the Fowls 
exhibited by him, the manner in which they 
have been fed; with an account of their pro¬ 
duction, &c. Any person who shall wilfully 
render a false statement in regard to the fowls 
exhibited by him will forfeit all claims to premi¬ 
ums. It is desirable that not more than four 
specimens of any one breed or variety of Galli¬ 
naceous Fowls be exhibited in one coop. 
No exhibitor will be allowed to remove his 
contributions from the Show Rooms until the 
close of the Exhibition, without the joint per¬ 
mission of the President of the Society and the 
Chairman of the Local Committee of Arrange¬ 
ments. 
Any person may become a member of the 
Society by subscribing his name to the List of 
Members, and paying into the Treasury the sum 
of three dollars. Membership entitles the,pos- 
sessor to admission for himself and family at all 
The list of Judges will bo called at 12 o’clock 
M. on Tuesday, the 14th February, and they 
will immediately thereafter enter upon their ex¬ 
aminations. The various Judges will be de¬ 
signated by rosettes and badges of various 
colors, which will be announced at the time of 
the exhibition. At ten o’clock on Thursday 
morning, the awards will be announced. 
On Friday morning at 10 o’clock, an appro¬ 
priate Address will be delivered, and a Conver¬ 
sational Meeting held in the Lecture Room of 
the Museum, in which it is hoped that all inter¬ 
ested in the subject will join. 
The most extensive arrangements will be 
made for exhibiting all the specimens of Poultry 
in the Five spacious Halls of the Museum , and 
Ho extra charge whatever will be made. 
Admission to the National Poultry Show, in¬ 
cluding also all the usual attractions of the Mu¬ 
seum will be Only Twenty five cents. Children 
under ten , half-price. Open from 7 A. M. until 
10 P. M. 
Persons to whom large Premiums are award¬ 
ed can have all or any portion of their value in 
Silver Plate, appropriately inscribed, if preferred. 
Premiums not called for before the 15th of March 
will be considered donated to the Society. 
January 19 th 1854. 
P. T. BARNUM. 
President of the National Poultry Society. 
VICE PRESIDENTS. 
Prof. Jas. McClintock, A. G. Sumner, S. C., 
Edwin Hicks, John Bonner, Ga., 
Dr. Geo. W. Lawrence, R. W. Williams, Florida, 
Horace Greely, Geo. C. Costar, Ala., 
Orange Judd, M. W. Philips, Miss., 
Dr. Ezekiel Holmes, Me., P. Melendy, Ohio, 
C. E. Potter, N. H., W. T. Dennis, Ind., 
F. Holbrook, Vt., F. W. Gardner, Ill., 
G. P. Burnham, Mass., Warren Isham, Mich., 
Jno. G. North, Cor.n., P. Talmadge, Wis., 
W. S. King. R. I., 
Thomas Smith, N. Y., 
Jas. C. Taylor, N. J., 
P. R. Freas, Penn., 
C. P. Holcomb, Del., 
J. Bowers, Md., 
Jas. Grant, Iowa, 
B. Warfield, Ky., 
D. W Yandall, Tenn., 
G. W Sizer, La., 
Rev. C. H. Byington, 
Ark., 
Thos. S. Pheasants, Va., Thos. Allen, Mo., . 
Col. Lutterloh, N. C., Jas. Dougall, Can. West, 
Hugh Allen, Can. East, 
R. McCormick, Jr., Corresponding Secretary. 
A. B. Allen, Recording Secretary. 
R. B. Coleman, Treasurer. 
managers. 
P. T. Barnum, James Van Norden, 
A. B. Allen, Thos. Trimble, of Balti- 
Horace Greely, more, Md., 
Moses S. Beach, Jas. M. Chambers, Ga., 
N. J. Becar, M. B. Bateham, Ohio, 
Solon Robinson, David Gibson, of New- 
J. S. Redfield, Richmond, Ohio, 
Joseph Hough, > Fitzhagh Coyle, Wash- 
J. S. Oatman, ington, D. C., 
William H. Burroughs, Lorillard Spencer, West- 
John N. Genin, Chester, N. Y., 
R. L. Colt, of Patterson, Benjamin Hayes, Eliza- 
N. J., bethtown, N. J., 
tf. W. Amerman, S. B. Parsons, Flushing, 
T. B. Miner, Clinton, L. T., 
N. Y., Hon. C. B. Ilubbell, 
D. P. Newell, Roches- Bridgeport, Conn., 
New 
Second best 
do.’.V.V. 7 . 2 j times during the exhibition. 
ter, N. Y., 
Wm. Delamano. 
G. N. Tuttle, 
W. B. Dinsmore, 
A. B. Miller, 
O. S. Fowler, N. Y., 
Edwin R. Yale, 
Alfred E. Beach, 
Wm. Ellsworth, Brook- 
Fred’k Stanley, 
Britain, Conn., 
Nathan P. Beers, N. Y., 
Dr. Geo. W. Lawrence, 
Catonsville,. Md., 
J. P. Bowers, Baltimore, 
Md., 
Gideon Thompson, 
Bridgeport, Conn., 
lyn, J. Bowers, Raltimore, 
T. B. Miner, of Clinton- M. D., 
ville, N. Y., Wm. H. Noble, Esq., 
T. S. Gold, West Corn- Bridgeport, 
wall, Ct., John Rose, Greenwich, 
George Seelye, " Conn., 
Fardyce Hitchcock. 
