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CLAIMS FOR THE GOLD MEDAL FOR 1870. 



FIRST DEPARTMENT. 



STATEMENT OF JOHN HALL, OF ALAMEDA. 



To the Committee to award Gold Medals in the First Department : 



Gentlemen: I will state that I think I am entitled to the gold medal 

 in this department on my exhibition of fine thoroughbred horses. 



My entire exhibition embraced thirteen head, twelve of which were 

 thoroughbred and one graded. Woodburn, Peggy Ringgold, and Moss 

 Eose were imported by me from Kentucky, where they were considered 

 as good blood as was to be had in the United States. The blood of 

 Woodburn is not surpassed in the world. The balance of the stock 

 exhibited by me are of my own raising in this State, and are all by 

 Woodburn, except one two year old, which is by Norfolk. Take my 

 lot of horses as exhibited by me at the Fair, and ask the opinions of 

 competent and impartial judges, and I am satisfied they will pronounce 

 it the finest lot of horses ever exhibited by one man at any Fair in Cali- 

 fornia, and will compare well with any stock of horses in any country. 



I received eight premiums at the late Fair of the Bay District Society 

 and seven at the Fair of the Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Society. 

 At the latter place I was awarded a premium on every animal I exhib- 

 ited. 



Hoping your committee will give the matter a careful consideration, 

 I am most respectfully, 



Yours, etc., JOHN HALL. 



STATEMENT OF G. N. SWEZY, OF YUBA. 



Gentlemen of the Committee on Gold Medals: 



I submit to you that in your department the rearing of cattle is of 

 more importance to the State than that of horses or sheep. Sheep will 

 only afford us mutton and wool, the horse his service, while cattle will 

 not only afford us our principal meats, but leather, milk, butter, and 

 cheese, and service as well. It would be hard to do without beef, milk, 

 butter, and cheese, while we might do without the sheep and horse, as 

 silk, cotton, and other textiles would supply us with our principal 



