AWARDS AND PREMIUMS. 
POULTRY. 
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C E. A. Tappan, - Prairie du Sac. 
Judges,.. < Josph Axon, - Poynette, Ool. Co. 
I Chas. Smitii, - - - Waupun. 
Best lot Shanghai or China Fowls, Chas. Blackwell, Waukesha,.$2 
Best lot Dorkings, J. A. Carpenter, Waukesha,. 2 
Best lot Java, Simon Ruble, Beloit, Rock county,. 2 
Best Poland spangled Hamburg, D. Fitch, Madison,. 2 
Best lot Turkeys, J. B. Britton, Madison,. 2 
Best lot Ducks, Daniel Palmer, Fitchburg, Dane county,. 2 
Best lot Pea Fowls, E. L. Bovee, Eagle,. 2 
Best lot Game Fowls, Chas. Oswin, Middleton,. 2 
The Committee on Poultry, respectfully represent that they 
are wholly unable to report premiums according to the pub¬ 
lished list, from their ignorance of the nice distinctions that 
have been established by venders and speculators in poultry to 
gull the public and create their sales. They have therefore 
adopted the term Shanghae or Shanghai, as the best known and 
more indicative of that long legged ungainly abortion that 
“ John Chinaman” has made up from a cross of the great Ma¬ 
lay and Bantam, probably, as these are the only two original 
breeds of fowls the Creator ever put upon the earth; the rest 
are man’s invention. There is no more reason to suppose that 
there was a wild original of each of the different varieties of 
domestic fowls than of the other domestic animals—Durham 
or Devon Cattle, Leicester or Bakewell Sheep, or Berkshire, 
Essex, or Woburn Swine. It is a conceded fact, that all the 
different varieties of Domestic Fowls, known as Brahmas 
Chittagongs, Cochin China’s, &c., are one and the same thing. 
In accordance with the above, the committee are unanimous 
in reporting. 
In conclusion, your committee would suggest to farmers and 
others, through the Society, that domestic poultry is as likely 
to run out by breeding in as any other class of animals, and 
consequently their interests would be promoted by crossing 
judiciously. 
EDWARD A. TAPPAN, Ch’n. 
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