The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-10-06

most diminutive appetite, and an invinc-
iblc propensity to lay three hundred and
sixty-fve eggs a year, to be Matched by
eccdiobcon, or other steam apparatus
This may be a rather highly wrought
picture of tho good-time- coming breed
but something not entirely unlike this,
some of us will some day see
For all the good that has grown out
of the exhibitions of this society--the
increased interest in this already pcrcep-
tible improvement in the poultry thro'
the country, the information with regard
to their rearing and management, that
Is common now to all classes, the bet
tered condition of chickendom in respect
to house-room and dormitores. and the
reaction of all this interest, information
aud improvement upon the care and
treatment of other arm-stock-for all
this direct and incidental good, we are
indebted to the working officers of this
society and, seriously speaking, it is
difficult to over-rate it. But there are
evils which have grown out of our shows
evils for which the management are
not responsible, for they were beyond
their control-these check any bolster
Gus lamentation, in which we might 9th
erwise feel inclined to indulge, at the
prospect of the demise, at the tender
age of three years, of the present New
England Society for the Improvement Of
Domestic Poultry.
0naon1atorc lao W mo L., 4, tool C 1
the unsuspecting have been shorn at the
shows. The country, far and near has
been swept of fair to middling birds.
and then sanded with advertisements Of
i0,lortationS Monstrous prices have
been asked, predicated upon sham prices
paid for fowls. At the late show, three
birds Of the crane order-Cochin China
we believe-were said. in the kearing
y anxious myers, to have been sold for
500 This makes five and twenty
thirty, or fifty dollars per pair appear
mocicratc and bird and buyer are soon
sold--the bird, by and by, appears to
be dear, but the buyer feels remarkably
cheap. Exaggerated accounts of these
sales are spread broadcast through the
land, and the return crop of orders
comes pouring in. SnookS'S importa.
tation, Sn,ith'S, Jenkins, have their fan.
cy prices, like " Delaware and Hudson,
" Harlem Rail Road, Canton" and
other Wall street game. Fortunately
these orders seed also, and this season
came up crop Of the victims. eloquent
of their wrongs. Call the Society
what you will" said an indignant
Charleston-ian to us, " we at the South
know it ASS specializing Society
| bought his birds at a high figure. and
they have produced u Httlc IF cccry
Ming"
Our Southern friends, because of the
ardor Of their nature, have pcrspired
prodigiously in these transactions. Twen
ty and thirty dollars is no uncommon
price for them to pay for bird, that
cost the seller two dollars and fifty cts.
and was really worth no more than fds
without the ticO And for all this W,
must all suffer, while few grow rich
Yankee nutmegs, Yankee tricks, Yam
kce ;neanness," are the phrases that load
down letters from the scene of opera
tions, and to be fancier of poultry ant
seller will soon, at the present rate O.
progression, rank man as a sharper
and swindler
For these reasons we see without {
sigh the downfall of Il society which ha,
done much good hoping that upon it
ruins may arise an amateur associ
alton that will have all its benef
cial influence without the attendan
evils.-BoSton JOarnaI Of agriculture