MERINOS AND Saxons. Judges-Nathan Brown, Chairman, Oppenheim Center; Hiram Ashley, Allen's Hill. Merinos.-Best buck, Jonathan S. Wilmarth, Addison, Vermont, $10. Saxons.-Best buck, S. C. Scovil, Salisbury, Conn., $10. SWINE. Judges-Augustus Raynor, Chairman, Clarence; Benjamin Marr. Best boar over two years old, Geo. Shaffer, Wheatland, $10. 2. Wm. H. Davies, Black Lake, $5. Best boar 1 year old, L. Vanderwenter, Benton, $10. 2. Truman Bowen, Chili, $5. Best boar, six months, and under one year, "Suffolk or Windsor Bray," L. G. Morris, Fordham, $8. 2. L. D. Hicock, Alexander, $3. Best breeding sow over 2 years, Elisha Beebe, Henrietta, "Berkshire," and "Leicester," $10. 2. Truman Bowen, Chili, "Byfield," $5. Best breeding sow 1 year old, Geo. Shaffer, Wheatland, "Leicester," $10. 2. Orrin Lathrop, Darien, "Leicester," $5. Best sow, 6 months, and under 1 year, N. Haywood & Son, Brighton, "Leicester and Byfield," $8. 2. Matthias Garratt, Gates, "Leicester," $3. Best lot of pigs, not less than 5, under 10 months, Samuel S. Wood, of Rochester, $10. 2. Elisha Beebe, Henrietta, $5. POULTRY. Judges-John R. Lee, Chairman, Buffalo; E. E. Platt, Albany. Best lot of Dorkings, not less than 3, 1 cock and 2 hens, Lewis F. Allen, Black Rock, $3. Best lot of Polands, F. W. Collins, East Bloomfield, $3. Best lot of Malay or Chittegong fowls, A. A. Hudson, Syracuse, $3. Best lot of Bantams, not less than 3, Charles Marble, Buffalo, $3. Commended.-A. H. Ross, for lot of White Poland fowls. S. Hyde, Palmyra, fine lot of Chinese geese. W. B. Williams, Rochester, for pair of Poland fowls. S. B. Colt, for lot of turkeys. A. A. Hudson, for lot of Malay fowls. 66 66 66 L. K. Haddock, for lot of Spanish fowls, C. Howland, for lot of Pair Swans. S. B. Colt, for lot of Java fowls. B. W. Fassett, for lot of Silken fowls. Mrs. E. Tyler, for lot of Spotted Dorkings. Statement of the Poultry exhibited by F. W. Collins, of East Bloomfield, at State Fair, September, 1851. The fowls exhibited were Shanghaes, Cochin China, Dorkings, Silkey fowls, Black Poland, Silver Poland, or Spangled Hamburghs and chicks from same; pair ducks, pair Bremen geese, pair Poland geese, pair Wild turkeys. Stock of fowls last spring consisted of 50 hens and 7 cocks, The produce of which, in February, 356 eggs; March, 385; April, 1,096; May, 1,213; June, 1,033. The precise number after that time was not ascertained. In five months, the eggs realized, at 12 cents per dozen, $17.07. Shanghaes.-Wintered one cock and three pullets. One pullet commenced laying when between six and seven months old, and laid 108 eggs without interruption; she then raised a brood of chicks. The other two, after laying about 30 eggs each, manifested a disposition to set, and ceased laying for a few days. They produced about 90 eggs each. These were of Forbes' importation, and have proved hardy, healthy and quiet fowls. The pullets weighed at 6 months, Clbs; the cock 81⁄2 lbs. Cochin China. These are large and lofty birds, and I consider them of the same family with the Shanghaes, but not so heavily feathered, consequently not so hardy. Dorkings, are of good size and shape, passably good layers, but lack that solid and compact appearance that is seen in most other breeds. I prefer several other breeds to these. Black Polands, are justly celebrated for laying, and are well worth keeping for eggs and ornament, do not set, till well matured; occasionally an albino appears among their chicks, pure white, with a very large top-knot. Silver Poland, or Spangled Hamburghs, are of all the fowls I have met with, the most. ornamental and useful. They exceed all I have known for eggs; are not large, but very plump, weigh from 3 to 45 lbs.; excellent for table use. Their color is white, with a round or crescentshaped black spot on every feather, from the top-quot to the toes. The half-breeds prove good layers. I have the Creole or Bolton Grey Ostrich fowls, Malays, and colored Bantams, Peafowls and Doves. I have expended nothing for hen house or poultry yard, as I had plenty of vacant buildings and sheds for my fowls. I fed 8 bushels corn at 50 cts. per bushel, and 10 bushels mill feed at 10 cents per bush.-$5. The offals of the kitchen, sour milk, loppered milk, whey mixed with shorts, and sometimes the offals of a slaughter house, were placed where the fowls had access to it. I consider milk a good substitute for meat, to produce eggs, and conducive to the health of the chicks. My fowls usually have their liberty to range over the farm at will, except those shut up for breeding, eggs, &c., and get most of their living abroad after spring opens, on grass, insects, seeds, &c. Of ducks, I have 6 varieties. They are very profitable, when there is living water easy of access, both for eggs and feathers, Their eggs are worth more than those of common hens, and their feathers quite as good as geese feathers. They produce about 40 eggs each, The large White Bremen Goose, yields a large amount of good feathers and down, is very quiet, and sometimes will dress, when fat, 20 lbs The Brown Poland Goose has a black bill, a stately appearance, is heavily feathered, and lays many eggs. My geese live almost exclusively on grass in the summer, and hay with a little grain in winter. I consider the, nett proceeds above one dollar each per annum. My Wild Turkeys I procured in Ohio, some years since, of Mr. Jackson, in Cuyahoga county, who had domesticated them by hatching the eggs of wild birds under tame fowls; they are larger than those that have been domesticated for many generations. Five or six of those I brought from' Ohio, are now in this vicinity; their live weight is from 25 to 30 pounds. The Turkey is very useful in this part of the State, especially when grasshoppers abound. I consider that they earn more than the cost of raising, by destroying grasshoppers. I one year raised 100, which brought me $80, which I considered all profit. 4,683 eggs, produced in 5 months, at 1c.,... $46 83 Eggs produced, but not counted, from 1st July to mid dle of September, believed to be worth,... 10 00 The above statement was verified, as required by the rules of the Society, and shows a very gratifying result and fair remuneration to Mr. Collins. |